en-us http://gnomefiles.org GnomeFiles.org: Apps and Community for GNOME Thu, 23 Feb 2012 06:10:18 +0100 Thu, 23 Feb 2012 06:10:18 +0100 http://GnomeFiles.org/content/show.php/Darning?content=146114 http://GnomeFiles.org/content/show.php/Darning?content=146114 http://GnomeFiles.org/content/show.php/Darning?content=146114 Thu, 23 Feb 2012 02:47:15 +0100 GTK Development Tool Darning v-0.05.3
(GTK Development Tool)
Darning is a tool for managing a series or sequence of patches to a software source tree, in the same vein as quilt but with extended functionality. It supports advanced patch concepts such as file mode changes and copying/renaming files. The GUI (gdarn) is the primary interface and the most complete, but a command line interface is also provided with fewer features at this stage.

changelog:
Bug fix. Fix problems patching text files not terminated with a new line.

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]]> http://GnomeFiles.org/content/show.php/MediaBox?content=149064 http://GnomeFiles.org/content/show.php/MediaBox?content=149064 http://GnomeFiles.org/content/show.php/MediaBox?content=149064 Wed, 22 Feb 2012 23:20:00 +0100 GTK Video Application MediaBox 2.52-1
(GTK Video Application)
MediaBox is a minimalistic GTK+ media player based on GStreamer.

Features: audio cd, dvd and subtitles support, covers downloading,
equalizer and replaygain, tags editing, status icon, notifications,
remote control.

Command line options:
$ mediabox
--new = start a new clean instance
--novis = not render visualization
--reset = restore default settings
$ mediabox-remote
add = file1 file2... append files to playlist
clear = clear playlist
next = jump to next track
pause = pause or continue playing
play = start playing
prev = jump to previous track
set = file1 file2... set playlist to given files
stop = stop playback
volume = value (0-100) set volume

D-Bus service for MPRIS information:
interface = org.freedesktop.MediaPlayer
service = org.mpris.mbox

changelog:
* fixed bug on equalizer save settings
* fixed dvd playback, now works fine
* fixed bug on cd playback and setted
read speed to 1x with paranoia mode

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]]> http://GnomeFiles.org/content/show.php/Shutter+-+Screenshot+Tool?content=97747 http://GnomeFiles.org/content/show.php/Shutter+-+Screenshot+Tool?content=97747 http://GnomeFiles.org/content/show.php/Shutter+-+Screenshot+Tool?content=97747 Wed, 22 Feb 2012 11:47:25 +0100 GTK Graphic Tool Shutter - Screenshot Tool 0.88.1
(GTK Graphic Tool)
Shutter is a feature-rich screenshot program. You can take a screenshot of a specific area, window, your whole screen, or even of a website - apply different effects to it, draw on it to highlight points, and then upload to an image hosting site, all within one window.

changelog:
Shutter 0.88.1 does not add any new features but fixes some annoying bugs.

http://shutter-project.org/2011/12/new-bugfix-release-0-88-1/

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]]> http://GnomeFiles.org/content/show.php/spacezero?content=134428 http://GnomeFiles.org/content/show.php/spacezero?content=134428 http://GnomeFiles.org/content/show.php/spacezero?content=134428 Wed, 22 Feb 2012 09:52:26 +0100 GTK Tactics & Strategy Game spacezero 0.82.01
(GTK Tactics & Strategy Game)
SpaceZero is a 2D space combat, multiplayer (two players by now) net game.

The objective is to conquer the space, defeating all enemies.

At starting point you have only one ship and one planet, but you have money to buy more ships to conquest more planets.

All the ships can be controlled by the computer (automatic mode) or by the player (manual mode). You can easily change among your ships controlling all of them independly.

changelog:
version 0.82.01
---------------
-Fix: AI bug related to the buy and upgrade of ships.

version 0.82
------------
-Added astronauts. Survival pods.
-Window is now resizable.
-Start up options menu.
-Sound volume control.
-Keys defined by user.
-Help in game.
-Select and send ships with a mouse click.
-AI:
-Added order RETREAT.
-Modified order STOP.
-EXPLORE reviewed. The ships dont explore out of
Universe limits anymore. Explore method depends on ship's level.
-Bug fixes:
-Asteroids are no more visible everywhere.
-Several minor bugfixes.
-Minor enhances.


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]]> http://GnomeFiles.org/content/show.php/newrez+-+Increase+Screen+Rez+For+Netbook?content=134686 http://GnomeFiles.org/content/show.php/newrez+-+Increase+Screen+Rez+For+Netbook?content=134686 http://GnomeFiles.org/content/show.php/newrez+-+Increase+Screen+Rez+For+Netbook?content=134686 Wed, 22 Feb 2012 03:43:56 +0100 Nautilus Script newrez - Increase Screen Rez For Netbook 0.8 / 0.3
(Nautilus Script)
VERSION 0.8 newrez & VERSION 0.3 newrez-v (MORE fixes for Ubuntu)

Newrez is a nautilus script that not only makes it easy to change screen resolution on the fly, it lets you specify a resolution higher than your display's physical dimensions! This means that a netbook with a screen that's 1024x600 can display a scaled 1280x800 or higher (limited only by your eyesight :-)

Newrez does NOT "over-drive" the actual hardware. Instead, it builds a higher-resolution image in a buffer which is then scaled to fit the physical screen.

You are not constrained to "standard" resolutions. If 1280 seems too small, try something else. For example, "1111" will cause the script to set the resolution (at least on my netbook) to 1105x648.

Just run the script. Your display's default resolution and current setting are shown. Choose a new horizontal size. The rest is automatic and the aspect ratio is retained. Glxgears shows the same performance when running a large scaled display.

REQUIRES:
xrandr (version 1.3 or higher)
zenity
bc

At present, this will not work if you use the vendor-supplied Nvidia driver. However it has been tested to work with the Nouveau driver. Read about newrez-v below!

This script depends on the "xrandr --scale" option to create a framebuffer at a chosen resolution and scale it to fit the screen. This requires xrandr version 1.3 AND a video driver which supports it.
If this does not work for you, try "xrandr -v". It might be time for an upgrade. Further, the current "non-free" Nvidia and ATI drivers do not yet support xrandr 1.3
It seems that if the second line of output from "xrandr -q" reports "default connected..." then newrez will not work on your system. If it reports something more specific, like "LVDS1 connected" then newrez will work just fine.
IF you have additional information that may help here, PLEASE let me know...

changelog:
Check my other scripts, too!
(VOTE!!)



0.1 - initial version
0.2 - minor cosmetic fix for older zenity versions
0.3 - when run, the "xrandr" command is saved in a 1-line script ~/newrez-devname-XXXX
0.4 - corrected parsing when multiple monitors are detected
0.5 - a gnome-panel launcher icon can be created automatically
0.6 - better panel icon creation
0.7 - much more thorough testing to ensure proper versions of xrandr and gnome-panel-add

0.8 - Newrez 0.8 is unchanged, but includes a second script. When you unpack this version, you will also get "newrez-v" which is an entirely different approach. For those who cannot run newrez due to driver issues, or because the latest Xrandr package traps the mouse in a small rectangle (like my system), here is a solution while we wait for these things to get fixed!

Newrez-v takes a different approach. Instead of creating a larger display in a framnebuffer and displaying a scaled version, newrez-v starts a vncserver at a higher resolution and then starts a vncviewer in scaled mode. Not as elegant, not as fast, but will work on ALL systems.

The first time you use it, it must be started from a command line. If desired, edit the line that begins "vncserver" to change resolution (currently set to 1280x800). After the initial setup, it can be run from comand line, double-click icon, or nautilus-script.

Version 0.3 of newrez-v has MANY Ubuntu-specific fixes. Feedback would be appreciated!

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]]> http://GnomeFiles.org/content/show.php/GParted?content=130308 http://GnomeFiles.org/content/show.php/GParted?content=130308 http://GnomeFiles.org/content/show.php/GParted?content=130308 Wed, 22 Feb 2012 00:53:31 +0100 GTK Other Utility GParted 0.12.0
(GTK Other Utility)
GParted is a free partition editor for graphically managing your disk partitions.

GParted enables you to resize, copy, and move partitions without data loss.

For a detailed list of features see: http://gparted.org/features.php

changelog:
This release of GParted adds some exciting new features, and includes bug fixes and language translation updates.

Key changes include:

* Add support for nilfs2 including resizing
* Add ability to change UUID
* Add read-only support for LVM PVs
* Enable GPT expansion when growing RAID


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]]> http://GnomeFiles.org/content/show.php/AWeather?content=132301 http://GnomeFiles.org/content/show.php/AWeather?content=132301 http://GnomeFiles.org/content/show.php/AWeather?content=132301 Mon, 20 Feb 2012 01:06:26 +0100 GTK Scientific AWeather 0.7
(GTK Scientific)
AWeather is a free real-time weather data viewer designed for weather enthusiasts. AWeather is not a weather widget/dockapp that displays a pre-computed forecast. It is designed to be an easy to use program that integrates a variety of meteorological data in simple unified interface.

changelog:
2012-02-16
AWeather 0.7 released:
* Added a GPS plugin using GPSd
* Detailed (but opaque) maps in the map plugin
* Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements

2012-01-10
AWeather 0.6.3 released:
* Added support for Mac OS X
* Added an much improved User Guide

2011-11-25
AWeather 0.6.1 released:
* Added a Radar menu to quickly jump to a NEXRAD/WSR-88D site
* Fixed a bunch of 64-bit bugs

2011-11-03
AWeather 0.6 released:
* Added "Alerts" plugin using the NWS CAP feed
* Updated GTK+ libraries for Windows

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]]> http://GnomeFiles.org/content/show.php/X+Tile?content=99624 http://GnomeFiles.org/content/show.php/X+Tile?content=99624 http://GnomeFiles.org/content/show.php/X+Tile?content=99624 Sun, 19 Feb 2012 23:30:56 +0100 GTK System Tool X Tile 2.2.1
(GTK System Tool)
X-tile is an application that allows you to select a number of windows and tile them in different ways.
X-tile works on any X desktop (gnome, kde, xfce, lxde…).
The main features are: many tiling geometries, undo tiling, invert tiling order, optional system tray docking and menu, filter to avoid listing some windows, filter to check some windows by default, command line interface.

WRITTEN BY: Giuseppe Penone (aka giuspen) and Chris Camacho (aka Chris_C)

SUPPORTED LANGUAGES:
• Chinese Simplified (Khiyuan Fan, to be updated)
• Chinese Traditional (Yan-ren Tsai, up to date)
• Czech (Pavel Fric, up to date)
• English (default)
• French (Ludovic Troisi, up to date)
• German (Jöran Zeller, up to date)
• Italian (Giuseppe Penone, up to date)
• Russian (Andriy Kovtun, up to date)
• Spanish-Argentina (MeloPixel, up to date)

changelog:
• fixed bugs

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]]> http://GnomeFiles.org/content/show.php/Naufrago%21?content=132322 http://GnomeFiles.org/content/show.php/Naufrago%21?content=132322 http://GnomeFiles.org/content/show.php/Naufrago%21?content=132322 Sun, 19 Feb 2012 20:06:28 +0100 GTK Other Software Naufrago! 0.4
(GTK Other Software)
Naufrago! is a simple online/offline RSS reader that allows reading news even with its images. This is because there are people, like the author, that not always has an Internet connection available, but wants to be able to read articles/entries/posts with its images. This is the leit motiv of the application.

changelog:
Naufrago! 0.4 roadmap:

Application identifyer (its own User-Agent) + version (improvement).

Code cleaning process courtesy of pychecker and pylint (improvement).

Instant hiding of the read entries/articles when the "hide read entries" option is enabled (improvement).

Fix for the problem that caused uncategorized feeds (in an .opml) not being imported.

Fix for the notification message (pynotify) not being localizado/gettexted.

Fix for the images that could not be downloaded in a round, to retry in the next one.

Clear mode: new visualization and operating mode that only shows feeds with pending unread items/entries (new).

Toolbar button to mark EVERYTHING as read (new).

Download of the contents where entries/articles point to. That's a step forward in the offline field (new).

Plus to the 0.4 roadmap, the following has also been added:

Items of some feeds were shown as an exceprt, now show complete (fix).

Proxy funcionality integrated (thanks Niels)(new).

Added an alternative way to retrieve feed favicons (fix).

X button minimizes to tray instead of quitting (improvement).

Hope you enjoy!

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]]> http://GnomeFiles.org/content/show.php/Decibel2+SoundBox?content=147384 http://GnomeFiles.org/content/show.php/Decibel2+SoundBox?content=147384 http://GnomeFiles.org/content/show.php/Decibel2+SoundBox?content=147384 Sun, 19 Feb 2012 17:21:20 +0100 GTK Sound Application Decibel2 SoundBox 2.40-1
(GTK Sound Application)
Decibel² SoundBox is a minimalistic GTK+ audio player.

Features: covers downloading, equalizer and replaygain,
tags editing, status icon, notifications, remote control.

Supports: audio cd, flac, mp3, mp4, oggvorbis, wma, wave,
radio streaming and shoutcast playlists.

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]]> http://GnomeFiles.org/content/show.php/ImageMagickUtilities?content=148930 http://GnomeFiles.org/content/show.php/ImageMagickUtilities?content=148930 http://GnomeFiles.org/content/show.php/ImageMagickUtilities?content=148930 Sun, 19 Feb 2012 14:29:32 +0100 GTK Graphic Tool ImageMagickUtilities 0.0.5
(GTK Graphic Tool)
I use Imagemagick quite a lot for various graphics work and I use the colorize and modulate a LOT when doing a theme or icons, the main problem with a command line app ( no matter how good ) is that you have no visual feedback until you convert the whole image, hence these three scripts ( the start of many! ) they can be installed and run from the command line or used as a nautilus script by placing them in ~/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts, select an image in nautilus and then select either colourize, modulate brightness from the scripts menu, you can also run any of the other apps from the first so you can colorize and then modulate then adjust the contrast of the image, the dialogs are fairly simple but there is a README file in the archive, you should try to avoid a 1:1 preview as it's quite slow, however when linking the apps and converting the final image you should set the preview of the apps to 1:1.

changelog:
1st outing
Amended scripts to take care of 'sh' bug
slight bug crept in when displaying the imagemagick command from modulate, showed the colourize command instead, now fixed
added brightness/contrast dialog
cleaned up guis

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]]> http://GnomeFiles.org/content/show.php/GNOME+Feed+Line?content=148599 http://GnomeFiles.org/content/show.php/GNOME+Feed+Line?content=148599 http://GnomeFiles.org/content/show.php/GNOME+Feed+Line?content=148599 Sat, 18 Feb 2012 13:53:15 +0100 GTK Chat Application GNOME Feed Line 1.0
(GTK Chat Application)
GNOME Feed Line is a social networking client for the GNOME 3 Desktop. It supports Twitter.

changelog:
* Added support for multi-column.
* Added support for Retweet.
* Added support for theme.
* Added Japanese translation.
* Added Estonian translation.


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]]> http://GnomeFiles.org/content/show.php/gPlotter3D?content=148941 http://GnomeFiles.org/content/show.php/gPlotter3D?content=148941 http://GnomeFiles.org/content/show.php/gPlotter3D?content=148941 Wed, 15 Feb 2012 14:14:46 +0100 GTK Education gPlotter3D 0.1
(GTK Education)
A Program To Draw 3D Plots Without opengl

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]]> http://GnomeFiles.org/content/show.php/GAdmin-SAMBA?content=132014 http://GnomeFiles.org/content/show.php/GAdmin-SAMBA?content=132014 http://GnomeFiles.org/content/show.php/GAdmin-SAMBA?content=132014 Tue, 14 Feb 2012 22:41:09 +0100 GTK Networking Tool GAdmin-SAMBA 0.3.3
(GTK Networking Tool)
GADMIN-SAMBA is an easy to use GTK+ frontend for the SAMBA file and print server. GADMIN-SAMBA is an easy to use GTK+ frontend for the SAMBA file and print server. It features multiple local and remote user and group imports, on the fly share creation and user handling, including randomization of usernames and passwords.
PDF printing to shared directories or email etc.


changelog:
Sets standard configuration for client signing/schannel, server signing/schannel and spnego to yes. Fixes a possible startup crash. Indent fixes and patch cleanups. Combines public and guest ok options. Removes the apply server settings button.

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]]> http://GnomeFiles.org/content/show.php/GAMGI+?content=130313 http://GnomeFiles.org/content/show.php/GAMGI+?content=130313 http://GnomeFiles.org/content/show.php/GAMGI+?content=130313 Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:37:36 +0100 GTK Scientific GAMGI 0.15.6
(GTK Scientific)
GAMGI is a package to build, visualize and analyse atomic structures GAMGI is an object-oriented program aiming to handle all aspects directly related with building, viewing and analysing atomic strucures, such as molecules, crystals, glasses, liquids, etc. GAMGI supports the 230 crystallographic space groups, and can be used to perform point symmetry and 3D Voronoi analysis. GAMGI supports multiple windows, layers, and lights, and offers maximum control over even low-level objects as atoms, bonds and text objects.

GAMGI comes with extensive XHTML documentation that can be seen with a browser or GAMGI itself, from the local computer or from a remote http or ftp site, as www.gamgi.org. GAMGI also comes with hundreds of files describing relevant molecules, clusters and crystals, in GAMGI XML native format, that can be loaded out-of-the-box.

changelog:
Arbitrary lists of crystallographic families of (hkl) planes and [uvw] directions can now be easily created, for all models supported, with Plane->Create and Direction->Create. Arbitrary lists of Planes and Directions (previously selected with Plane->Select and Direction->Select) can now be handled exactly as a single object, with Plane->Modify and Direction->Modify. Fixed a few bugs.

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]]> http://GnomeFiles.org/content/show.php/List.txt?content=148807 http://GnomeFiles.org/content/show.php/List.txt?content=148807 http://GnomeFiles.org/content/show.php/List.txt?content=148807 Sat, 11 Feb 2012 08:58:05 +0100 Nautilus Script List.txt .01
(Nautilus Script)
Uses ls with the -R -U -X arguments and outputs it as a text file called List.txt in the folder you use it in. Great for large music, movie or comic collections!
Remember to make it executable before putting it in your nautilus scripts folder-then restart nautilus. Done.

Just something simple i made for myself i though someone else would find useful. This was my second script, so critic is welcome. :D


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]]> http://GnomeFiles.org/content/show.php/gksu+nautilus?content=148806 http://GnomeFiles.org/content/show.php/gksu+nautilus?content=148806 http://GnomeFiles.org/content/show.php/gksu+nautilus?content=148806 Sat, 11 Feb 2012 08:45:39 +0100 Nautilus Script gksu nautilus .01
(Nautilus Script)
This was initially an experiment on my ectremely n00bish skills. It\\\\\\\'s quite simply the command \\\\\\\'gksu nautilus\\\\\\\' typed into a text file and made executable. So..remember to make it executable after you download it. Then put it in your scripts folder, and restart nautilus.
Done!
USE: right click on a white space in any folder and it will reopen that folder with the gksu argument, I think thats the right terminology for it :P
Works in my Ubuntu 11.10 if it doesn\\\\\\\'t work in yours...oops.

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]]> http://GnomeFiles.org/content/show.php/Mutiara+Motif+Designer?content=148772 http://GnomeFiles.org/content/show.php/Mutiara+Motif+Designer?content=148772 http://GnomeFiles.org/content/show.php/Mutiara+Motif+Designer?content=148772 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 08:45:58 +0100 GTK Graphic Editor Mutiara Motif Designer 0.9.1
(GTK Graphic Editor)
Mutiara helps you to create intricate motifs to adorn borders of web pages, invitation cards and so on. Fractal enthusiasts can use Mutiara to explore and discover interesting fractal specimens.

changelog:
First release.

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]]> http://GnomeFiles.org/content/show.php/Audio%2BVideo%2BImage%2BText%2BISO+Convert?content=92533 http://GnomeFiles.org/content/show.php/Audio%2BVideo%2BImage%2BText%2BISO+Convert?content=92533 http://GnomeFiles.org/content/show.php/Audio%2BVideo%2BImage%2BText%2BISO+Convert?content=92533 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 03:13:10 +0100 Nautilus Script Audio/Video/Image/Text/ISO Convert 0.97
(Nautilus Script)
TRANSLATIONS ARE NOW WORKING AGAIN! This time, using libtranslate.

Right-click on a file, and this script will decide what conversions are appropriate, ask some questions about what you want, and execute the proper command and options to convert it into something else.

Multimedia: change formats, bitrate, framerate, size, aspect ratio, and more. Also strip audio.
Audio: change formats, bitrate, volume, and more.
Multimedia and Audio: your most-used sets of options can be stored for future use.
Images: change formats, size, jpg compression, rotate, equalize, and more.
Documents: change formats, text-to-speech, text-to-jpg, and more.
Convert multi-image files, like pdf or animated gif, into a series of frames,
pdf to gif creates animaged gif, animated gif to pdf creates multi-page pdf.
Convert various "CD Images" into standard .iso files.

Comments welcome, suggestions invited, votes appreciated.

There's a lot of description here, but you don't need any of it to make this work.
Just download and extract. Then do one or more of these with the file "avconvert":
(1) move (or copy or link) it to ~/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts
(2) move (or copy or link) it to somewhere in $PATH (eg /usr/local/bin)
..(obviously don't move it twice :-)
(3) do #2, then add it as a nautilus-action (set "paramater" to "%M", check "multiple files")
(4) add it to Gnome panel/launch-bar (drag/drop or right-click panel Add/Custom-Application)

...Depending on 1, 2, 3, and 4 above (you can do any combination of these), you can now:
(1) right-click on selected icon(s) and choose the script
(2) from command line: avconvert filename (quote name(s) with spaces, multiple files OK)
(3) right-click on selected icon(s) and choose "Avconvert"
(4) click the icon to launch -or- drag-and-drop file(s) on the icon

To repeat, you can do as many of these as you want. For example: move the file to ~/.gnome2/natuilus-scripts, then link that to /usr/local/bin, then add it as a nautilus-action, then add it to the gnome-panel.

Much more than a quick shortcut to a common command, this shell script is over 2000 lines of code!

If you feel inclined not to vote "good", tell me why - I'm still actively developing this.
If you like it and you're not registered, take the time to sign up and vote....
After all, I took the time to write this and give it away! :-) :-)

If this has become a tool you use regularly, PLEASE consider a small donation
A lot of time and effort has gone into bringing this to the "free" world

The first run will create some files in ~/.config/avconvert. The files "avconvert", "avconvert.lang", and "avconvert.ffopts.custom" may be hand-edited. A default file will be recreated if any file is missing.

When using Key-In-Options during audio or video conversion, your ffmpeg options can be saved into the menu for future use. When your Key-In options end in a comment (as in "# my conversion"), a line will be automatically added to the 'custom' section of the ffmpeg options menu.

There's a progress indicator during conversions. In most cases, it estimates that the result file will grow to the size of the source file. This is not always the case because depending on the conversion the result may be larger or smaller than the original, so it may only reach 25-30% and be finished or quickly rise to 98% and hover there depending on your conversion. Be patient - behind the scenes, the progress window stays up as long as the result file is growing.

AUDIO: Converts between various formats (see below).

VIDEO: Converts between various formats. Can also produce audio-only from a video source. Video size can be scaled by specifying a new width - the new height is calculated based on aspect ratio. A video can also be letter-boxed by choosing the aspect ratio of your display device - calculation automatically determines whether to pad on top/bottom or left/right. Videos can also be rotated to compensate for the type of recorder used (this feature is the only one that relies on mencoder). NOTE REGARDING ROTATION - mencoder has some codec limitations, and depending on the source or destination file type, rotation may fail. This will be detected and reported, but without automatically fixing it. The best course of action is to convert the source first, perhaps to AVI, then use THAT file as the source for your rotation and other changes.

AUDIO AND VIDEO: Can adjust audio volume, sample rate, bitrate. In fact, you can do anything ffmpeg is capable of. Options in default menus offer common operations, but a special KEY-IN function lets you test your own and store them in your own custom file. Further, there's a file of user-submitted options (downloaded separately).

VIDEO FRAMES: Converts an input video into a series of frames in either jpg or png format. The capture rate can range from 1 to 60 seconds between frames, or 'all'.

VIDEO MERGE: If you have selected multiple AVI video files, you'll be given the option of merging them. Other video formats will need to be converted to AVI first. Pre-converting is also recommended if AVI files of differing video or audio quality are to be merged. The final AVI can of course then be converted to the format of your choice.

IMAGES: Convert between various formats. Optionally set resolution for output. If outputting jpg, optionally set quality. A single conversion can specify multiple output types and multiple resolutions.

ISO IMAGES: Why should "images" be limited to "pictures"? Generate an ISO file from source files in the following formats: b5i, bin/cue, csi, daa, mdf, nrg, pdi, uif.

IMAGE SPECIAL CASES: Converting an animated gif to a format other than gif will produce a separate file for each frame in the source. Converting a pdf to an format other than pdf does the same thing. In both cases the "progress indicator" will suggest that there was an error, but this is only because the files created are not named in accordance with what it expects. Be patient if the source contains many frames, and do not click Cancel to the progress window. Also, conversion of a .psd (or similar) which contains layers will generate multiple images in some formats (eg jpg), or an animation (eg gif), so you may want to flatten them first.

TEXT to TEXT: Various conversions between TXT, RTF, HTML, M$Office and OpenOffice, with more being added.

TEXT to SOUND: Produces an audio file from a .txt file. Choose language, gender, pitch and speed.

TEXT to IMAGE: Produces an image of your .txt file. Choose the output image size, font size, colors, border, and font. Text is automatically rewrapped as needed, based on the requested image width and font size. After wrapping, if the text will not fit on a single image vertically, multiple image pages will be generated.

GENERAL:
- The source file is not overwritten. The destination file is named for the source with a new extension.
- An image conversion will also insert resolution into the destination name.
- If any conversion would produce the source filename (eg changing image jpg quality only, or audio bitrate only, or same conversion twice), "new" is inserted into destination name or user is prompted to supply a name.

If you are missing any packages or plug-ins that it relies on, it will try to help. Help and notes are within the script at the very bottom.

REQUIRES:
xterm . . . . . . . . used to inform user if zenity not installed, and to auto-fix zenity defaults
zenity . . . . . . . . for all dialogs
ffmpeg . . . . . . . everything video and audio
imagemagick . . image and text-to-image
bc . . . . . . . . . . . . to do math calculations

CODECS (more is always better):
amrwb
faac
faad2
ffmpeg-libs
gpac
gstreamer-ffmpeg
gstreamer-plugins-*
xmms2-avcodec
xmms2-wma

OPTIONAL:
transcode . . . . . for merging avi
translate/libtranslate . language translation
curl . . . . . . . . . . language translation
links/elinks . . . . language translation
nautilus-actions . add directly to context menu
kdegraphics . . . GUI colors in text-to-image
espeak . . . . . . . text to audio
faac . . . . . . . . . required for m4a audio
faad2 . . . . . . . . mpeg-2 and mpeg-4
antiword . . . . . . M$Office to txt and rtf
unrtf . . . . . . . . . rtf to txt and html
odt2txt . . . . . . . OpenOffice to txt and xml
txt2tags . . . . . . txt to html
libavcodec-unstripped-52 . avi to .mp4
AcetoneISO . . . disk images b5i/cdi/mdf/nrg/pdi to ISO.
nrg2iso, daa2iso, cdd2iso, uif2iso, bchunk . more disk images to ISO
mencoder . . . . . to rotate videos

Upon startup, "ffmpeg" and "file" are both executed against the source file, and the information gathered is displayed in the initial windows. This is helpful in deciding what choices to make, especially if the source file happens to be of an 'unknown' type. If the script cannot figure out what to do with a file, it will let you specify whether to treat it as audio, video, image, or text.

The destination is chosen from a list of common and appropriate file extensions. If you want something that's not listed, you can click OTHER and type in any extension that is appropriate for the input file type and conversion being done.

For a typical system (eg, mine :-) conversions for the following image, audio and video formats...

Image formats supported by convert (ImageMagick)
-- Readable:
A ART AVI AVS B BMP C CAPTION CIN CMYK CMYKA CR2 CRW CUR CUT DCM DCR DCX DFONT DNG DPX EPDF EPI EPS EPSF EPSI EPT EPT2 EPT3 FAX FITS FRACTAL FTS G G3 GIF GIF87 GRADIENT GRAY ICB ICO ICON IPL JNG JP2 JPC JPEG JPG JPX K LABEL M M2V MAP MAT MIFF MNG MONO MPC MPEG MPG MRW MSL MSVG MTV MVG NEF NULL O ORF OTB OTF PAL PALM PAM PATTERN PBM PCD PCDS PCL PCT PCX PDB PDF PEF PFA PFB PFM PGM PGX PICON PICT PIX PJPEG PLASMA PNG PNG24 PNG32 PNG8 PNM PPM PS PSD PTIF PWP R RAF RAS RGB RGBA RGBO RLA RLE SCR SCT SFW SGI STEGANO SUN SVG SVGZ TEXT TGA TIFF TILE TIM TTC TTF TXT UYVY VDA VICAR VID VIFF VST WBMP WMF WMZ WPG X X3F XBM XC XCF XPM XV XWD Y YCbCr YCbCrA YUV
-- Writable:
A ART AVS B BMP BMP2 BMP3 C CIN CIP CLIP CMYK CMYKA CUR DCX DPX EPDF EPI EPS EPS2 EPS3 EPSF EPSI EPT EPT2 EPT3 FAX FITS FTS G G3 GIF GIF87 GRAY HISTOGRAM HTM HTML ICB ICO ICON INFO IPL JNG JP2 JPC JPEG JPG JPX K M M2V MAP MAT MATTE MIFF MNG MONO MPC MPEG MPG MSL MSVG MTV MVG NULL O OTB PAL PALM PAM PBM PCD PCDS PCL PCT PCX PDB PDF PFM PGM PICON PICT PJPEG PNG PNG24 PNG32 PNG8 PNM PPM PREVIEW PS PS2 PS3 PSD PTIF R RAS RGB RGBA RGBO SGI SHTML SUN SVG SVGZ TEXT TGA THUMBNAIL TIFF TXT UIL UYVY VDA VICAR VID VIFF VST WBMP X XBM XPM XV XWD Y YCbCr YCbCrA YUV
--NOTE that "readable" or "writable" do not necessarily imply "useful" :-Q

Audio/Video formats supported by ffmpeg
-- Read/Write:
3g2 3gp 4xm MTV RoQ aac ac3 adts aiff alaw amr apc ape asf asf_stream au avi avm2 avs bethsoftvid c93 crc daud dsicin dts dv dv1394 dvd dxa ea ea_cdata ffm film_cpk flac flic flv framecrc gif gxf h261 h263 h264 idcin image2 image2pipe ingenient ipmovie libdc1394 lmlm4 m4v matroska mjpeg mm mmf mov mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2 mp2 mp3 mp4 mpc mpc8 mpeg mpeg1video mpeg2video mpegts mpegtsraw mpegvideo mpjpeg mulaw mxf nsv null nut nuv ogg oss psp psxstr pva rawvideo redir rm rtp rtsp s16be s16le s8 sdp shn siff smk sol svcd swf thp tiertexseq tta txd u16be u16le u8 vc1 vc1test vcd video4linux video4linux2 vmd vob voc wav wc3movie wsaud wsvqa wv x11grab yuv4mpegpipe



changelog:
[ READ ME!! ] After processing, the last part of the output from the actual conversion program used is displayed to confirm proper operation or to help diagnose any problems. If there are problems, you can view the complete output: in /tmp, list the files with "ls -lrt" which will show the newest at the bottom. The files that capture conversion output are named as follows: conversion-program.NNNNN where NNNNN is the PID of the process that ran. For example, you might see "ffmpeg.8512" or "antiword.405". Just view the file and look for the first error listed, which is probably the culprit.

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0.56 It is now possible to replace originals during a conversion IF:
1 - converting images
2 - converting into the source folder
3 - converting to only one file type
4 - converting to only one resolution
If these conditions are all true, you will be prompted before the conversion begins. If you choose YES:
1 - originals are replaced with the converted files
2 - the new files will have a different extension if appropriate
3 - the new file names will not have the resolution inserted

0.60 You are invited to submit your own custom option sets, which will be added to a "user submissions" config file that will be posted here and available for download!

0.61 Now recognizes .vob files - just mount your DVD and rip away!

0.65 When a keyed-in option is used in audio or video conversion, if you add a "comment" (a # followed by text), then that option set will be automatically added to your ~/.config/avconvert/avconvert.ffopts.custom file for future use

0.90 Merging multiple AVI files. If all the files you select are AVI, a new prompt will offer to merge them to a single AVI. All the source files should be of the same size/bitrate/etc (you may want to pre-convert them to ensure this).

0.93 New "veryquiet" option to completely turn off progress popups. To enable this after upgrading to 0.93, go to the directory ~/.config/avconvert and either remove the file "avconvert" (the next run will create a new one), or edit that file and add the line "veryquiet=y".

0.94 Translations work once again (if you have them turned off, just remove ~/.config/avconvert/avconvert.lang to reset). Various minor fixes as well, like an adjustment for a change in how Zenity works.

0.95 Google no longer offers the translation API as a free service. Changed things to use the built-in "libtranslate" function, which automatically references multiple such services. It's a little slower, but works.

0.97 Adjustments to detecting libtranslate. Also fixed a bug that, when converting multiple multimedia files, destination folder is asked for in each loop.

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(GTK Video Application)
LiVES is a simple to use, yet powerful video editor and VJ tool. It allows you to combine realtime and rendered effects, streams and multiple video/audio files, and then encode to over 50 formats. It is small in size, yet it has many advanced features.

LiVES is part editor, part VJ tool. It is fully extendable through open standard RFX plugin scripts.

LiVES lets you start editing and making video right away, without having to worry about formats, frame sizes, or framerates. LiVES will let you start creating your own tools, utilities and effects via the built in RFX builder.

LiVES is aimed at the digital video artist who wants to create their own content, the video editor who wants to create professional looking video, and the VJ who wants to captivate with spectacular images.

The current *features* that LiVES supports:

Platform

* Stable and well tested core.
* Fully cross platform for Linux and many flavours of Unix (e.g. BSD, openMosix, IRIX, OSX/Darwin).
* Runs on at least x86, amd64, x86_64, i64, sparc, hppa, ppc and xbox/x86.
* The LiVES audio/video platform is now custom extendable through RFX plugins. See the Custom RFX page for more details.
* Allows quick and easy prototyping of new tools, utilities, effects, transitions and more, using the included RFX builder window.
* Plugins can be written in Perl, thus allowing O/S level access to individual frames within clips.
* Will scale for high/low end hardware. Can be split into client/server components.
* Control every function in LiVES remotely using OSC protocol.
* Packages for most major linux distributions: Ubuntu, Debian, Gentoo, Suse, Fedora Core, Rock Linux, Source Mage, Alt Linux, and Dynebolic.
* 100% original, non-proprietary code.

Video

* Loading and editing of most video formats (via mplayer decoder).
* Smooth playback at variable frame rates, forward and in reverse. Display framerate can be controlled independantly of playback framerate.
* Cut and paste of frames within and between clips.
* Saving/re-encoding of clips, selections, and individual frames.
* Lossless backup/restore.
* Streaming input and output.
* Real time blending of clips (chroma and luma blends).
* Can handle in/out streams in yuv4mpeg format. Streams can be piped from stdout into other applications.
* Live inputs for firewire and TV cards
* Supports fixed and variable framerates. Playback rate can be smoothly adjusted independant of display rate.
* Ability to \'scratch\' with video - that is to move smoothly backwards and forwards through it, and to record yourself doing so.
* Playback can use LiVES\' own internal player, there is also a high performance fullscreen SDL playback plugin
* Support for RGB24, RGBA32, YUV420 (TV), and UYVY palettes, horizontal chroma subsampling is implemented.
* Ability to edit many filetypes and sources including remotely located files (with mplayer/ffmpeg libraries), and directories of images.
* Real time capture/recording of interactive (via mouseclicks) external windows.
* Encode to any of the 50+ output formats which are now supported (e.g. mjpeg, mpeg4, mpeg1/2, VCD, SVCD, DVD, ogg/mp4 ogm, Matroska mkv, dv, swf, Ogg Theora, Dirac, MNG, Snow, xvid, and even animated GIF and PDF!)
* Encoder formats can be extended through the encoder plugin API.
* LiVES will suggest the best settings for saving to each format.
* Resampling of video (time stretching) to any frame rate (1 to 200 fps; accurate to 8 decimal places); option to auto-resample or speed up/slow down between clips.
* Ability to instantly alter the playback speed of video and audio independently.
* Rotation, resizing and trimming of video clips.
* Deinterlacing, subtitle removal.
* Instant saving/loading of clips for performances/presentations.

Audio

* Can load mp3, ogg, mod, xm and wav files.
* LiVES can also load tracks directly off CD to use with your video (using cdda2wav).
* Ability to save audio selections, and append audio.
* Sound can be trimmed to fit video selections.
* Cutting and pasting of audio within and between clips.
* Resampling of audio (rate, channels, sample size, signedness and endianness); audio is auto-resampled between clips.
* Supports (auto)inserting of silence and deletion of audio sections.

Effects/Transitions

* Many effects, including random/targeted zooming, panning of video, colour cycling and colorisation/colour filtering.
* Merging/compositing of frames is possible: e.g. frame-in-frame, fade in/out and transparency.
* Real time previews as the effect is processing.
* Support for the frei0r effect plugin architecture which allows sharing of realtime effects with other applications.
* Use real time effects to blend clips together, regardless of frame size or fps. Luma and chroma blending are currently supported.
* Multiple real time effects are now possible during playback (VJ mode), these can also be rendered to frames.
* Effects and transitions are now fully customisable using the RFX builder window.
* Effects/blends can also be applied to incoming streams in real time.
* Dynamic loading of effects.

Multitrack

* Multitrack window with drag and drop
* Intelligent screen organisation - shows you only the information which is relevant, no more and no less
* Support for an almost limitless number of tracks and effects
* Rapid rendering - resize/resample and effects apply done in a single pass
* Tracks can be laid out entirely with keyboard, or with mouse, or a combination of both
* Multitrack settings can be targetted for a specific encoder, or generic
* Layouts can be saved and reloaded

Extras

* Full crash recovery.
* Simple and intuitive menu layout.
* I18N text support. Translations into French, Dutch, Czech, German, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish, Polish, Hungarian, Russian, Slovak and Turkish are included.
* Jack audio support
* Jack transport support (master or client)
* Pulse audio support
* RFX builder allows rapid prototyping of new effects, transitions utilities and tools. Custom RFX scripts can be exported to share with others or downloaded and imported. Test scripts are run in a sandbox to allow safe testing of new plugins.
* Midi sequence synchronisation (start/stop).
* Can load single images or directories of images in numerical order and assemble them into videos or slideshows.
* Ability to play music through xmms (including random selection of tracks).
* Shuttle controls for firewire cameras/recorders. Can grab from DV and HDV formats.
* Project files (clips and layouts) can be exported and imported
* Toys!

GUI

* Based on gtk+ 2.16+, runs under KDE, Gnome, Fluxbox and most other window managers.
* Several built in themes/skins available (see screenshots). Custom themes will be supported soon.

changelog:
Optimise playback by tweaking audio settings.
Fix regression in backup.
Fix floating point fps bug for mkv decoder.
Fix external window capture to work with Compiz.
Add (experimental) openGL playback plugin.
Minor GUI fixes.
Implement recording of external audio during playback.
Prevent clip names getting squashed in sets.
Further code cleanup.
Updated translations to Ukranian, Finnish and UK English.


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