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Alternative to Windows Media Player that supports all video/audio files
I would recommend VLC
it will play just about any video/audio you throw at it (except rmvb)
it is not under 30mb in size, it's around 100mb (after installation), but this is due to
it containing all ...
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What is a screen recorder with mouse movement and can save the recording as video?
I'd recommend ActivePresenter. You record your screencast first, and some of your features are added afterwards. Going through your list of requirements:
✔ Dynamic zooming of the page
There's a ...
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Simple program to cut videos without ANY loss of quality for Windows, Linux or Android
I would suggest using the command line and ffmpeg as in:
ffmpeg -ss start_time -i input_file .ext -t duration -vcodec copy -acodec copy output_file .ext
.ext must be a supported video type and the ...
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Video player with backward frame by frame stepping for Linux
The command line editor MLT melt can function as a command line player; this is what I get in terminal:
$ melt ./testvideo.mp4
+-----+ +-----+ +-----+ +-----+ +-----+ +-----+ +-----+ +-----+ +-----+
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Video player with backward frame by frame stepping for Linux
Development of mplayer has stopped (edit: resumed) and you should consider replacing it with mpv which supports this feature. Framestep forward with . and backwards with ,.
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Mass Video Trimming
You can use FFmpeg:
Free and open-source
Runs on Windows
Allows to trim: e.g. to cut the first 2 seconds: ffmpeg -ss 2 -i input.flv -vcodec copy -acodec copy output.flv
Is CLI so you can batch.
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Video player with backward frame by frame stepping for Linux
VLC has an extension called Previous Frame for frame-stepping backwards.
Extension Installation:
Put the file in the VLC subdir /lua/extensions, by default:
Windows (all users): %ProgramFiles%\...
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Alternative to Windows Media Player that supports all video/audio files
I would recommend Media Player Classic - Home Cinema. It has the same interface as the old media player in WinXP but plays most video and audio files.
I find MPC-HC is easier to turn subtitles on and ...
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Software to download YouTube videos to hard drive
JDownloader works great:
freeware
ads-free (make sure you uncheck/skip the spyware when installing JDownloader)
standalone
works with Windows/Linux/Mac
automatic acknowledgement if some video ...
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Software to view video files very fast
You can try VLC from videolan.org. It is free, but you should donate if you use it (especially in a business environment). :)
It supports up to 32x playback speed - 32 seconds real footage in 1 ...
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Video editor for Windows that can insert images or audio at arbitrary points
Blender (free) has a powerful built-in video editor that's pretty straightforward to use. You load content in as strips and then you can adjust these on the timeline, it has a real-time preview window ...
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Tool to split MP4 videos
You can use FFmpeg:
Free, open-source and widely used
Supports most video formats
Runs on Windows, Linux and Mac.
Allows to cut:
Running ffmpeg two times:
ffmpeg -i input.avi -vcodec copy -acodec ...
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Split video into pictures
You can use FFmpeg:
Free and open-source
Runs on Windows, Mac and Linux
Allows to split video into pictures: e.g. ffmpeg -i input.mov -r 0.25 output_%04d.png to get a picture every four seconds.
Is ...
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Software to view video files very fast
You could extract one image every X seconds, which you can do using FFmpeg (free, open-source, Windows, Mac and Linux) with the command ffmpeg -i input.mov -r 0.25 output_%04d.png to get a picture ...
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Software to download YouTube videos to hard drive
The default VLC media player should be able to play and record YouTube videos by itself. The steps are as follows:
Go to Views > Advanced Controls
Go to Media > Open Network Stream
Put the YouTube ...
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Software to create automatic subtitles (OS X)
This is one of the dreams of many many people and currently a perfect solution is not publicly available. However it can still be done with a bit of messy work. One method which will work if a) the ...
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Video player with backward frame by frame stepping for Linux
With VLC you can slow down the file, but it isn't really frame-by-frame. OpenShot is a pretty lightweight (and very useful) video editor, which can show frame-by-frame.
You can use the left and right ...
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Software to download YouTube videos to hard drive
Youtube Center is one of the best as it integrates perfectly into the site and gives you a lot of other options to customize your viewing experience. It appends an extra set of options to each video ...
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Program that can download YouTube playlists?
You can use youtube-dl. It is command line tool. I tried this at only on Windows7. There is a GUI wrapper available called win-youtube-dl but it only works at 64-bit Windows.
Open source
Supports a ...
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Open source video editing software for linux?
I recently came across Shotcut. It runs on Linux and it is based on the same backend as OpenShot: the MLT toolkit. It is opensource and crossplatform.
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What program will convert video frames to jpegs?
I'd recommend
ffmpeg
for this (free, open source, cross-platform).
Example:
ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -qscale:v 2 output_%03d.jpg
Will create one output_<framenumber>.jpg JPEG image (with quality ...
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Split video into pictures
If you prefer to have a graphical user interface and need to export every frame, you can use VirtualDub:
free and open source
Windows
File -> Export -> Image sequence:
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View each frame of video and delete/edit them
You can use Avidemux:
free and open source
Windows/Linux/Mac
GUI
allows to view each frame and delete a group of them by selection
compatible with major video formats (usually no need to install any ...
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Open source video editing software for linux?
I rarely do video editing, but in the past used OpenShot. The "learning curve" is pretty low (compared to Cinerella), and it nicely integrates with Blender and other tools.
OpenShot screenshot (...
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How to recover data from old DVDs?
If you have a Linux machine available (if not, there are several Live distributions you could boot from CD/DVD or USB-stick), you might wish to take a look at DDRescue. That's a command-line tool ...
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Simple program to cut videos without ANY loss of quality for Windows, Linux or Android
What you're looking for is AviDemux.
AviDemux is an open-source GUI video processing software made in Linux which also has releases for Windows (x86 and x64), it also has a command-line version ...
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Software to download YouTube videos to hard drive
The easy way to download and convert Web videos from hundreds of YouTube-like sites.
This works also for audio and picture galleries.
Video DownloadHelper :: Add-ons for Firefox
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YouTube downloader for Ubuntu
youtube-dl is open-source with no potentially unwanted software, available in several repositories, and sports all of your requested features – minus the GUI.
$ youtube-dl -F e4MSN6IImpI
[youtube] ...
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How to enhance Videos? (like photoshop for images)
You can use Avidemux:
freeware / open-source
cross-platform
can also be used for cutting, encoding videos
compatible with many formats
After you install it, open the video file, then go to Video - ...
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Freeware video editing software
How about PiTiVi?
It's a Free Software video editor based on GStreamer. It's written in Python and should run on windows, although I wouldn't expect it to run as well there.
Have a look at the manual ...
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