Linux multimedia

[linuxpyro]

Anyone use Linux to do multimedia, like video editing, graphics, audio, etc?

[mengle]

Sure; most people I think do. You should use the search option to look through the forum for various items because this has been brought up so many times before.

Common program for graphics creation/changing/editing include the GIMP, sodipodi, and Karbon.

I'm not very familiar with video editing so I can't help you there. As for music, you can play with XMMS, rip with grip + lame, and burn with k3b, for example. There are a host of other programs out there.

There should be many of these programs available for any major distribution you use.

[AndrewLubinus89]

sure, linux is good for multimedia. I find there are great apps like gimp, xmms, and mplayer that are awesome for multimedia. I have a few windows apps that I use under wine too.

[bwkaz]

Yes.

(:D)

[linuxpyro]

Anyone played with anything bigger? Cinelerra, maybe?

On an interesting note, I believe they recently released Massive, the graphics/AI program they used to create those battle scenes in LOTR. It's only a matter of time before it finds its way onto KaZaa... :D

[windowsfree]

I'm playing around with cinelerra right now, it looks alot like adobe premiere, but more colorfull and more difficult to use, but on that note premiere is also not free!

[soda_popstar]

Rhythmbox: MP3/Ogg player
Totem: Video/DVD playing
GIMP: Image manipulation
Cinelerra: Video editing
Inkscape: Vector graphics
Audacity: Audio editing

I don't actually use many of the editors, but I have them installed on my desktop just in case. ;-) I guess I wouldn't be able to give any comment on how good they are, or how they compare to Windows equivalents.

[yellowdog]

mplayer is the thing for viewing any video/audio source
it recognizes the format for u

[Satanic Atheist]

Going on about MPlayer, to update CoDecs and add new ones, I presume I can simply dump them into the directory (wherever I stuffed all the CoDecs when I compiled the damn thing) and that'll be it, right? I won't need to recompile?

As for the issue of MM on Linux, I think it's probably the best platform for it since my experiences with MM and A/V Editing usually requires that you have a multitude of (usually expensive) packages to get anything constructive done. At least with Open-Source software you can get what you want when you want it.

Linux's extremely efficient memory and processor-cycle handling would improve image and video manipulation whilst the stability of the platform (particularly the filesystem) would help safeguard against corruption.

Lastly, everyone knows that professionals use UNIX or their ilk!

James

[katibabi]

Blender - 3D graphics rendering

http://www.blender.org/

MainActor - Commercial video editing

http://www.mainactor.com/

[JamminJoeyB]

katibabi beat me too my suggestion about Blender.

Kind of a steap learning curve though.

[cybertron]

Going on about MPlayer, to update CoDecs and add new ones, I presume I can simply dump them into the directory (wherever I stuffed all the CoDecs when I compiled the damn thing) and that'll be it, right? I won't need to recompile?

My understanding is that support for certain file formats has to be compiled in, so the codecs need to be there at compile time. However, with my QT codecs I don't think I had to recompile and MPlayer found them anyway, so I'm not sure that is true for all of them (maybe not the binary win32 ones?). I guess the best thing I can say is to try it and if MPlayer still doesn't support your file then recompile.