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InkscapeIf you feel that Adobe Illustrator or CorelDraw will make a hole in your budget then you might really like conisdering this othr alternative for your creative self and needs. It comes for almost all the OS's and setting it up is not more than eating ice-cream.Inkscape's primary function is an editor for the Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) format- the 3C's standard XML format for vector

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VirtualDub(VD)- An advanced video editor (only for AVI files). It comes with a package of lots of tweaks to satisfy the needs of the user of all skill levels.FeaturesBeing primarily for the AVI files, cut, join, filter, encode, capture, etc. are some of the processes that it can put an AVI File through. It comes bundled with a host of features and add-ons to customize every aspect of processing

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So now we start with Video Encoders....

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Basically for windows XP , this doctor here makes it quite easy to create DivX (AVI) movies. With standalone DivX players becoming common, Dr DivX is an excellent tool to have.FeaturesThe interface is quite Intuitive and user friendly, with extreme dearth of menus and buttons you just can’t do it wrong! The doctor supports encoding options like ability to specify final size, cropping video,

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Media Coder (MC) is a very capable but difficult to use encoder. This is a front end that uses Open Source Video Tools like FFmpeg and Mplayer in the background. Being in its infancy MC needs to be forgiven for the buggy interface it carries. The earlier version 0.3.9 seems to be better than the newer one v 0.5.It can convert MPEG2/MPEG1/AVI (DivX, XviD)/3GP/MOV/Real Audio/etc., to MPEG2/MPEG1/

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Platforms: Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, BeOS, etc.It started off as a project to create a video streaming server and playback client. And originally had Video LAN server and Video LAN client for each of the task. But the crossplatform media player gained popularity and soon the server was reduced to a component of the Media player. It’s a highly capable media player and comes with a lot of

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Platforms: All Windows VersionsMedia Player Classic is not any normal Media Player bundled with the Windows but an Open Source Product for sure.Features:MPC comes with a stand alone executable. The interface unlike most other players is much simple. MPC’s menus are modular, so unwanted components can be hidden. The full screen mode can be configured to include or exclude aids like the control bar

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First things first so just get these basics in….FPS: for Frames per second. The number of movie frames displayed per second.Resolution: The number of horizontal and vertical dots that make up the display.Codec: Algorithm that is used to compress and decompress a video/audio stream. Needless to say, a stream compressed using a codec needs the same codec to decompress it. Open source codec examples

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Nothing consumes as much space on you hard disk as videos. While there are many free proprietary tools available for viewing videos, there are hardly any free proprietary video converters and editors. The most capable of these tools are from the Open Source domain.Before I start with the review all those players, editors etc. I suggest you guys to install all the codecs from any of the codec

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This is actually an entire Linux distro that’s targeted at the multimedia enthusiast. You will soon see why this distro has a mention of its own.“ dyne:bolic is shaped on the needs of media activists, artists and creatives as a practical tool for multimedia production: you can manipulate and broadcast both sound and video with tools to record, edit, encode and stream, having automatically

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Audacity is yet the most popular free music editor, and the fact that its open source means that there’s a ton of support available in the form of forums and developers.It can be used to record audio from any input source, edit MP3/WMA/Ogg Vorbis, split and splice audio clips together, change the speed or pitch of audio, mix tracks, record multi-channel (up to 16 channels- with of course the

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Not a lot of us need to edit audio, but those of us that are in need to would really appreciate the open source ones…So here Goes...

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So that was all about the players. I will soon be back with the open audio editors....Till then keep checking for more....

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VLC media player (Earlier called VideoLAN Client) is one of the most popular open source media players. Though more popular for its video playing capabilities, it’s also a very good audio player, with tons of options and features. It natively supports MPEG1 and 2, MP3, AAC, Ogg Vorbis, WMA, FLAC, Real Audio (RA), Speex, Quicktime and more.Apart from playlists and other standard features it also

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Zinf is an open source audio player that is built for both Linux and Windows. It has a good looking interface and is really easy to use. It was a project based on FreeAMP, the open source answer to Winamp. You can get a whole range of themes for the player. It also supports SHOUTcast or Icecast streaming audio, Ogg Vorbis, Mp3, WAV, Audio CDs, PLS or M3U playlists, a skinnable interface, and more

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From the site: “MPlayer is a movie player which runs on many systems. It plays most MPEG/VOB, AVI, Ogg/OGM, VIVO, ASF/WMA/WMV, QT/MOV/MP4, RealMedia, Matroska, NUT, NupelVideo, FLI, YUV4MPEG, FILM RoQ, PVA files, supported by many native, XAnim, and Win32 DLL codecs. You can watch VideoCD, SVCD, DVD, 3ivx, DivX 3/4/5 and even WMV movies.”I think that pretty much says it all about the MPlayer

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Hey everybody I am back with the audio players…… Though many of us are happy with our usual players such as Winamp or Windows Media Player, still there are some of us who prefer the flexibility they get through the use of Open source Players….These open source players are actually a lot customizable and improvable if you know the programming.So now comes…

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Check out people here is a preview of my MyLot....myLot User ProfileOr else Click here http://mylot.com/raphael_volts

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So these were some open audio formats for now. Next time I will come back with the Players….Keep Checking.

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Speex is another product from Xiph.org, it is sort of the Ogg Vorbis answer to speech compression. As unlike music, speech is a lot simpler, and requires much lower bitrates to be aurally readable. As a result, it requires much lower bitrates and a different algorithm.Speex is open source, and can be added to ogg container. It uses VBR (Variable Bitrate Encoding) process to provide the best

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Lame is perhaps one of the most popular of audio codecs. It is used with MP3 container and is what the majority of software applications use for ripping CDs. It uses a lossy algorithm to compress audio, mainly for streaming purposes and portable music players.As far as its comparison with Ogg Vorbis, WMA and AAC goes it seriously is lacking. However, because of the popularity of the MP3 format,

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FLAC, or Free Lossless Audio Codec, is another open source audio codec, but unlike MP3, Vorbis or others, it’s lossless compression. This means that you can rip the audio CD without loosing any data or quality whatsoever.To explain lossless, just take the example of wizip. When you zip files up in wizip it decreases the size and saves space but when you unzip them everything is back to normal

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It is perhaps the most popular audio container and has .ogg as extension. Its very common with media players now but if your player does not support it then don’t just worry cause all the needed plugins are easily available online.Unlike other patented formats like MP3, AAC etc. ogg is completely free. It was developed by Xiph.org and Vorbis is the compression algorithm. Ogg is still maintained

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This is to give a brief description of the open source audio formats which are generally in use. Some of the most popular a re Ogg vorbis(.ogg), FLAC, LAME and Speex. I will deal with the players later so just keep checking.

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SourceForge provides an assortment of very useful services to the users using its site for project development and some of them are listed below.1. Compile Farm The Compile Farm gives developers access to a number of different hosts that may be used for the compiling and testing of the code. These hosts all use different platforms for testing the softwares. Currently there are 12 hosts

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You must be wondering what SourceForge is…For all those who are new to the Open Source Movement SourceForge http://www.sourceforge.net is one of the largest open source development site on the net. It claims to host more than 100,000 projects and has over 1,000,000 users registered with it. This in itself is a testament of the growing popularity of the Open Source Movement, which the site itself

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I know its getting pretty boring with all those facts…. So I am now turning all the attentions towards the Open Source Softwares… In case any of you need more knowledge on OSS please contact me and I will post for you. Till then here goes….

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3. PortabilityIts easy for OSS to be ported to other devices and platforms with relevant expertise from contributors as they make necessary modifications.Whereas the PS vendor has expertise only in the current platform or device they are dealing in. They generally don’t give any thought to increase the portability until its heavily profitable for themselves.4. CompatibilityAs he contributory

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1. LongevityOSS, as allows modifications by any one, can survive in its current form for quite a long time. Users need not worry about lack of vendor support or feel compelled to upgrade.On the other hand a PS is supported and maintained totally and only by the vendor . So in that case is total life is straight linked to the life of the vendor or the company, or what they chose for it.2.

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Hi everybody I am back with the OSS....Actually was quite busy with the house chores since Easter is here already.And also to tell you what I saw 300 and It was a damn nice movie with stunning visuals man.Now to continue....

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Open source software as you have already read refers to software that has a open source code for everybody who wants to see it and append to it.It’s also for the people who are falling low on money and want software for cheap and also as they are free from the monetary hassles of Proprietary Software(PS)- I mean free from any legal implications over using it or distributing it. And also most of

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So now I am starting it up with open source software. Here are some common terms that we will be using:Paid Software: A software that is bought under a fee and has limited supportaccording to thefee.Free Software: Software that is available for free without any kind offee.Source Code: The human readable text that is written in the syntax ofthe programming language and consists of the logic and

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About Me!Hi there I am Raphael from India and am starting this blog trying to make it a place of knowledge and information about one or the other topics related to computers and softwares. Might be boring for a few but sure do check in for some special entries in which I will also be giving some wonderful tweaks and other things and sometimes some game reviews that I get from some technology

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