List of Applications/Multimedia

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1 Multimedia

1.1 Codecs

See the main article: Codecs.

1.2 Image

1.2.1 Image viewers

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of image viewers.

1.2.1.1 Framebuffer image viewers
  • fbi — Image viewer for the linux framebuffer console.
https://www.kraxel.org/blog/linux/fbida/ || fbida
  • fbv — Very simple graphic file viewer for the framebuffer console.
http://s-tech.elsat.net.pl/fbv/ || fbv
1.2.1.2 Graphical image viewers
  • Eye of GNOME — Image viewing and cataloging program, which is a part of the GNOME desktop environment.
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/EyeOfGnome || eog
  • Eye of MATE — Simple graphics viewer for the MATE desktop.
https://github.com/mate-desktop/eom || eom
  • feh — Fast, lightweight image viewer that uses imlib2.
https://feh.finalrewind.org/ || feh
  • Geeqie — Image browser and viewer (fork of GQview) that adds additional functionality such as support for RAW files.
http://geeqie.org/ || geeqie
  • GPicView — Simple and fast image viewer for X, which is part of the LXDE desktop.
http://lxde.sourceforge.net/gpicview/ || GTK+ 2: gpicview, GTK+ 3: gpicview-gtk3
  • Gwenview — Fast and easy to use image viewer for the KDE desktop.
http://gwenview.sourceforge.net/ || gwenview
  • ida — X11 application (Motif based) for viewing images.
https://www.kraxel.org/blog/linux/fbida/ || fbida
  • imv — Lightweight image viewer with support for Wayland and animated GIFs which uses FreeImage.
https://www.github.com/eXeC64/imv/ || imv
  • LxImage-Qt — The LXQt image viewer.
https://github.com/lxde/lximage-qt || lximage-qt
  • nomacs — Qt image viewer. It is feature-rich but starts fast and can be configured to show additional widgets or only the image.
https://nomacs.org/ || nomacs
  • Quick Image Viewer — Very small and fast image viewer based on GTK+ and imlib2.
http://spiegl.de/qiv/ || qiv
  • Ristretto — Fast and lightweight image viewer for the Xfce desktop environment.
http://docs.xfce.org/apps/ristretto/start || ristretto
  • sxiv — Simple image viewer based on imlib2 that works well with tiling window managers.
https://github.com/muennich/sxiv || sxiv
  • Viewnior — Minimalistic GTK+ image viewer featuring support for flipping, rotating, animations and configurable mouse actions.
http://siyanpanayotov.com/project/viewnior/ || viewnior
  • Vimiv — An image viewer with vim-like keybindings. It is written in python3 using the Gtk3 toolkit.
http://karlch.github.io/vimiv || vimiv
  • Xloadimage — Classic X image viewer.
http://sioseis.ucsd.edu/xloadimage.html || xloadimage

1.2.2 Image organizers

See also Wikipedia:Image organizer.

  • Deepin Image Viewer — Image viewer and organizer for Deepin desktop.
https://www.deepin.org/en/original/deepin-image-viewer/ || deepin-image-viewer
  • digiKam — KDE-based image organizer with built-in editing features via a plugin architecture. digiKam asserts it is more full featured than similar applications with a larger set of image manipulation features including RAW image import and manipulation.
http://www.digikam.org/ || digikam
  • GNOME Photos — Access, organize, and share your photos on GNOME.
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Photos || gnome-photos
  • gThumb — Image viewer and browser for the GNOME desktop.
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Gthumb || gthumb
  • KPhotoAlbum — Digital image cataloging software that supports annotation, browsing, searching and viewing of digital images and videos.
https://www.kphotoalbum.org/ || kphotoalbum
  • Pantheon Photos — Photo organizer for Pantheon.
https://launchpad.net/pantheon-photos || pantheon-photos
  • Rapid Photo Downloader — Download photos and videos from cameras, memory cards and portable storage devices.
http://www.damonlynch.net/rapid/ || rapid-photo-downloader
  • Shotwell — A digital photo organizer designed for the GNOME desktop environment
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Shotwell || shotwell

1.2.3 Image processing

  • CairoSVG — SVG to PNG, PDF, PS converter.
https://cairosvg.org/ || python-cairosvg
  • Converseen — Batch image converter and resizer.
http://converseen.fasterland.net/ || converseen
  • dcraw — Converts many camera RAW formats.
http://www.cybercom.net/~dcoffin/dcraw/ || dcraw
  • Fyre — Tool for producing computational artwork based on histograms of iterated chaotic functions.
http://fyre.navi.cx/ || fyre
  • G'MIC — Full-featured open-source framework for image processing, providing several different user interfaces to convert/manipulate/filter/visualize generic image datasets, ranging from 1d scalar signals to 3d+t sequences of multi-spectral volumetric images, including 2d color images.
http://www.gmic.eu/ || gmic
  • GraphicsMagick — Fork of ImageMagick designed to have API and command-line stability. It also supports multi-CPU for enhanced performance and thus is used by some large commercial sites (Flickr, etsy) for its performance.
http://www.graphicsmagick.org/ || graphicsmagick
  • ImageMagick — Command-line image manipulation program. It is known for its accurate format conversions with support for over 100 formats. Its API enables it to be scripted and it is usually used as a backend processor.
http://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php || imagemagick
1.2.3.1 Image compression
  • Guetzli — A perceptual JPEG encoder, aiming for excellent compression density at high visual quality.
https://github.com/google/guetzli || guetzli
  • jpegoptim — JPEG optimization utility providing lossless and lossy compression.
http://www.kokkonen.net/tjko/projects.html#jpegoptim || jpegoptim
  • optipng — Lossless PNG compressor.
http://optipng.sourceforge.net/ || optipng

1.2.4 Raster graphics editors

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of raster graphics editors.

  • Deepin Draw — Lightweight drawing tool for Deepin desktop.
https://github.com/linuxdeepin/deepin-draw || deepin-draw
  • GIMP — Image editing suite in the vein of proprietary editors such as Adobe Photoshop. GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) has been started in the mid 1990s and has acquired a large number of plugins and additional tools.
http://www.gimp.org/ || gimp
  • GrafX2 — Bitmap paint program specialized in 256 color drawing.
http://grafx2.chez.com/ || grafx2
  • KolourPaint — Free raster graphics editor for KDE, similar to Microsoft's Paint application before Windows 7, but with some additional features such as support for transparency. Part of

kde-applications and kdegraphics groups.

http://kolourpaint.org || kolourpaint
  • Krita — Digital painting and illustration software included based on the KDE platform.
http://krita.org/ || krita
  • mtPaint — Graphics editing program geared towards creating indexed palette images and pixel art.
http://mtpaint.sourceforge.net/ || mtpaint
  • MyPaint — Free software graphics application for digital painters.
http://mypaint.org || mypaint
  • Pinta — Drawing and editing program modeled after Paint.NET. Its goal is to provide a simplified alternative to GIMP for casual users.
http://pinta-project.com/ || pinta

Some image viewers and organizers like digiKam, Ephoto, GNOME Photos, gThumb, ida, nomacs, Pantheon Photos, Phototonic and Shotwell also provide some basic image manipulation functionality.

1.2.5 Photo editors

  • darktable — Photography workflow and RAW development application.
http://www.darktable.org/ || darktable
  • Hugin — Panorama photo stitcher.
http://hugin.sourceforge.net/ || hugin
  • Luminance HDR — Open source graphical user interface application that aims to provide a workflow for HDR imaging.
http://qtpfsgui.sourceforge.net/ || luminancehdr
  • nUFRaw — Utility to read and manipulate raw images from digital cameras using DCRaw.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/nufraw/ || gimp-nufraw
  • RawTherapee — A powerful cross-platform raw image processing program.
http://www.rawtherapee.com/ || rawtherapee

1.2.6 Vector graphics editors

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of vector graphics editors.

  • Dia — GTK+-based diagram creation program.
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Dia || dia
  • Inkscape — Vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) file format. Inkscape supports many advanced SVG features (markers, clones, alpha blending, etc.) and great care is taken in designing a streamlined interface. It is very easy to edit nodes, perform complex path operations, trace bitmaps and much more. It's developers also aim to maintain a thriving user and developer community by using open, community-oriented development.
http://inkscape.org/ || inkscape
  • Karbon — Vector graphics editor, part of the Calligra Suite.
http://www.calligra-suite.org/karbon/ || calligra
  • LibreOffice Draw — Vector graphics editor and diagramming tool included in the LibreOffice suite similar to Microsoft Visio.
https://www.libreoffice.org/discover/draw/ || libreoffice-still or libreoffice-fresh
  • sK1 — Replacement for Adobe Illustrator or CorelDraw, oriented for "prepress ready" PostScript & PDF output.
http://sk1project.net/ || sk1
  • Xfig — Interactive drawing tool.
http://mcj.sourceforge.net/ || xfig

1.2.7 Font editors

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of font editors.

https://fontforge.github.io/ || fontforge

1.2.8 2D animation

1.2.9 3D computer graphics

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of 3D computer graphics software.

  • Blender — Fully integrated 3D graphics creation suite capable of 3D modeling, texturing, and animation, among other things.
http://www.blender.org/ || blender
  • Sweet Home 3D — Interior design software application for the planning and development of floor plans
http://sweethome3d.com/ || sweethome3d
  • POV-Ray — Script-based raytracer for creating 3D graphics.
http://www.povray.org/ || povray
  • Wings 3D — Advanced subdivision modeler that is both powerful and easy to use.
http://www.wings3d.com/ || wings3d

1.2.10 Color pickers

  • Agave — Colorscheme designer tool for GNOME.
https://web.archive.org/web/20170327063642/http://home.gna.org/colorscheme/ || agave
  • Deepin Picker — Color picker tool for Deepin desktop.
https://www.deepin.org/en/original/deepin-picker/ || deepin-picker
  • gcolor2 — Simple GTK+ 2 color selector.
http://gcolor2.sourceforge.net/ || gcolor2
  • Gcolor3 — Simple GTK+ 3 color selector.
https://www.hjdskes.nl/projects/gcolor3/ || gcolor3
  • GPick — Advanced color picker tool.
http://www.gpick.org/ || gpick
  • KColorChooser — Simple application to select the color from the screen or from a pallete. Part of

kdegraphics.

https://www.kde.org/applications/graphics/kcolorchooser/ || kcolorchooser
  • MATE Color Selection — Choose colors from the palette or the screen. Run with mate-color-select.
https://mate-desktop.org/ || mate-desktop

1.2.11 Screenshot

See Screen capture#Screenshot software.

1.2.12 Digital camera managers

See Libgphoto2#Installation.

1.3 Audio

1.3.1 Audio systems

See also the main article Sound system and Wikipedia:Sound server.

1.3.2 Audio players

See also Music Player Daemon#Clients and Wikipedia:Comparison of audio player software.

1.3.2.1 Console
  • cmus — Very feature-rich ncurses-based music player.
https://cmus.github.io/ || cmus
  • MOC — Ncurses console audio player with support for the MP3, OGG, and WAV formats.
https://moc.daper.net/ || moc
  • mpg123 — Fast free MP3 console audio player for Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, HP-UX and nearly all other UNIX systems (also decodes MP1 and MP2 files).
https://www.mpg123.org/ || mpg123
  • pianobar — Console-based frontend for the online radio Pandora.
https://6xq.net/projects/pianobar/ || pianobar
  • XMMS2 — Complete rewrite of the popular music player.
https://xmms2.org || xmms2
1.3.2.2 Graphical
1.3.2.2.1 GStreamer-based
https://www.clementine-player.org/ || clementine
  • GNOME Music — Music is the new GNOME music playing application. It aims to combine an elegant and immersive browsing experience with simple and straightforward controls.
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Music || gnome-music
  • Lollypop — A GNOME music player.
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Lollypop || lollypop
  • Muine — A music player written in C Sharp.
https://muine.gooeylinux.org/ || muine
  • Pantheon Music — Simple, fast, and good looking music player. The official elementary music player.
https://github.com/elementary/music || pantheon-music
  • Pragha — GTK+ music manager. (fork of the Consonance Music Manager)
https://pragha-music-player.github.io/ || pragha
  • Quod Libet — Audio player written with PyGTK and GStreamer with support for regular expressions in playlists.
https://github.com/quodlibet/quodlibet/ || quodlibet
  • Rhythmbox — GTK+ clone of iTunes, used by default in GNOME.
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Rhythmbox || rhythmbox
1.3.2.2.2 Phonon-based
  • JuK — JuK is an audio jukebox application, supporting collections of MP3, Ogg Vorbis, and FLAC audio files.
https://www.kde.org/applications/multimedia/juk/ || juk
1.3.2.2.3 Qt Multimedia-based
  • Babe — Tiny Qt music player to keep your favorite songs at hand.
https://milohr.github.io/BabeIt/ || babe
  • Deepin Music — Awesome music player with brilliant and tweakful UI Deepin-UI based.
https://www.deepin.org/en/original/deepin-music/ || deepin-music
  • Elisa — Simple music player by the KDE community aiming to provide a nice experience for its users.
https://community.kde.org/Elisa || elisa
1.3.2.2.4 Other
http://audacious-media-player.org/ || audacious
  • DeaDBeeF — Light and fast music player with many features, no GNOME or KDE dependencies, supports console-only, as well as a GTK+ GUI, comes with many plugins, and has a metadata editor.
http://deadbeef.sourceforge.net/ || deadbeef
  • Goggles Music Manager — Music collection manager and player that automatically categorizes your music, supports gapless playback, features easy tag editing, and internet radio support. Uses the Fox toolkit.
https://gogglesmm.github.io/ || gogglesmm
  • LXMusic — A minimalist xmms2-based music player.
https://wiki.lxde.org/en/LXMusic || GTK+ 2: lxmusic, GTK+ 3: lxmusic-gtk3
  • Qmmp — Qt-based multimedia player with a user interface that is similar to Winamp or XMMS.
http://qmmp.ylsoftware.com/ || qmmp

1.3.3 Audio tag editors

1.3.3.1 Console
  • Beets — Music library organizer, tagger and more.
http://beets.io/ || beets
  • id3v2 — Command line editor for id3v2 tags.
http://id3v2.sourceforge.net/ || id3v2
  • MP3Info — MP3 technical info viewer and ID3 1.x tag editor.
https://ibiblio.org/mp3info/ || mp3info
  • MP3Unicode — Command line utility to convert ID3 tags in mp3 files between different encodings.
http://mp3unicode.sourceforge.net/ || mp3unicode
1.3.3.2 Graphical
  • EasyTag — Utility for viewing, editing and writing ID3 tags of music files, supports many audio formats.
http://easytag.sourceforge.net/ || easytag
  • Ex Falso — Cross-platform free and open source audio tag editor and library organizer. Run with exfalso.
https://github.com/quodlibet/quodlibet/ || quodlibet
  • Kid3 — MP3, Ogg/Vorbis, FLAC, MPC, MP4/AAC, MP2, Speex, TrueAudio, WavPack, WMA, WAV and AIFF files tag editor.
http://kid3.sourceforge.net/ || KDE: kid3, Qt: kid3-qt
  • MP3Info GUI — MP3 technical info viewer and ID3 1.x tag editor. The graphical interface can be launched with the gmp3info command.
https://ibiblio.org/mp3info/ || mp3info
  • Picard — Cross-platform audio tag editor written in Python (the official MusicBrainz tagger).
https://picard.musicbrainz.org/ || picard
  • Thunar Media Tags Plugin — Adds special features for media files to the Thunar File Manager, including the ability to edit tags.
http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/thunar-plugins/thunar-media-tags-plugin || thunar-media-tags-plugin

1.3.4 Lyrics

  • OSD Lyrics — Lyric show compatible with various media players.
https://github.com/osdlyrics/osdlyrics || osdlyrics

1.3.5 Audio converters

  • Ecasound — Command line tools designed for multitrack audio processing. It can be used for simple tasks like audio playback, recording and format conversions, as well as for multitrack effect processing, mixing, recording and signal recycling.
https://nosignal.fi/ecasound/ || ecasound
  • Gnac — Audio converter for GNOME.
http://gnac.sourceforge.net/ || gnac
  • SoundConverter — A graphical application to convert audio files into different formats.
http://soundconverter.org/ || soundconverter
  • soundKonverter — Qt-based GUI front-end to various audio converters.
https://github.com/dfaust/soundkonverter || soundkonverter
  • SoX — Command line utility that can convert various formats of computer audio files into other formats.
http://sox.sourceforge.net/ || sox

1.3.6 Audio editors

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of digital audio editors.

  • Audacity — Program that lets you manipulate digital audio waveforms.
https://www.audacityteam.org/ || audacity
  • Deepin Voice Recorder — Voice recorder application for Deepin desktop.
https://www.deepin.org/en/original/deepin-voice-recorder/ || deepin-voice-recorder
  • GNOME Sound Recorder — The Sound Recorder application enables you to record and play .flac, .ogg (OGG audio, or .oga), and .wav sound files.
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/SoundRecorder || gnome-sound-recorder
  • Kwave — Sound editor for KDE.
http://kwave.sourceforge.net/ || kwave
  • Mp3splt — Utility to split mp3, ogg vorbis and native FLAC files selecting a begin and an end time position, without decoding.
http://mp3splt.sourceforge.net/ || CLI: mp3splt, GUI: mp3splt-gtk
  • Sweep — Audio editor and live playback tool.
http://www.metadecks.org/software/sweep/ || sweep

1.3.7 Digital audio workstations

See also Professional audio.

  • Ardour — Multichannel hard disk recorder and digital audio workstation.
http://ardour.org/ || ardour
  • LMMS — Digital audio workstation which allows you to produce music with your computer.
https://lmms.io/ || lmms
  • Non — Modular digital audio workstation composed of four main parts: Timeline, Mixer, Sequencer and Session Manager.
http://non.tuxfamily.org/ ||

non-daw

  • Qtractor — Qt-based hard disk recorder and digital audio workstation application that aims to provide digital audio workstation software simple enough for the average home user, and yet powerful enough for the professional user.
http://qtractor.sourceforge.net/qtractor-index.html || qtractor
  • Rosegarden — Digital audio workstation program developed with ALSA and Qt that acts as an audio and MIDI sequencer, scorewriter and musical composition and editing tool.
http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ || rosegarden

1.3.8 Audio analyzers

https://www.sonicvisualiser.org/ || sonic-visualiser

1.3.9 Scorewriters

See also LilyPond#Front-ends and Wikipedia:Comparison of scorewriters.

  • Canorus — Music score editor. It supports an unlimited number and length of staffs, polyphony, a MIDI playback of notes, chord markings, lyrics, import/export filters to formats like MIDI, MusicXML, ABC Music, MusiXTeX and LilyPond.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/canorus/ || canorus
  • LilyPond — Music engraving program, devoted to producing the highest-quality sheet music possible.
http://lilypond.org/ || lilypond
  • MuseScore — Create, playback, and print sheet music.
https://musescore.org/ || musescore

1.3.10 Audio synthesis environments

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of audio synthesis environments.

  • ChucK — Strongly-timed, concurrent, and on-the-fly music programming language.
http://chuck.cs.princeton.edu/ || chuck
  • Csound — Sound and music computing system.
https://csound.com/ || csound
  • CsoundQt — Frontend for Csound featuring a highlighting editor with autocomplete, interactive widgets and integrated help.
https://csoundqt.github.io/ || csoundqt
  • Pure Data — Real-time music and multimedia environment.
http://msp.ucsd.edu/software.html || pd

1.3.11 Sound generators

This section contains drum machines, software samplers and software synthesizers.

  • ams — Alsa Modular Synth. Realtime modular synthesizer and effect processor.
http://alsamodular.sourceforge.net/ || ams
  • amsynth — Analog Modelling SYNTHesizer. Easy-to-use software synthesizer with a classic subtractive synthesizer topology.
https://amsynth.github.io/ || amsynth
  • DIN — Sound synthesizer and musical instrument.
http://dinisnoise.org/ || din
  • Drumstick — Set of MIDI tools: drum grid, MIDI player, virtual piano.
http://drumstick.sourceforge.net/ || drumstick
  • FluidSynth — Real-time software synthesizer based on the SoundFont 2 specifications.
http://www.fluidsynth.org/ || fluidsynth
  • Helm — Software synthesizer to create electronic music on your computer.
http://tytel.org/helm/ || helm
  • Hydrogen — Advanced drum machine to create drum sequences.
https://github.com/hydrogen-music/hydrogen || hydrogen
  • QMidiArp — Advanced MIDI arpeggiator, programmable step sequencer and LFO.
http://qmidiarp.sourceforge.net/ || qmidiarp
  • QMidiRoute — MIDI router and processor for ALSA.
http://alsamodular.sourceforge.net/ || qmidiroute
  • Qsynth — Qt GUI for Fluidsynth.
https://qsynth.sourceforge.io/ || qsynth
  • TiMidity++ — Software synthesizer, which can play MIDI files by converting them into PCM waveform data.
http://timidity.sourceforge.net/ || timidity++
  • Vee One Suite — Old-school software instruments: synthv1, a polyphonic subtractive synthesizer; samplv1, a polyphonic sampler synthesizer; drumkv1, yet another drum-kit sampler; padthv1, a polyphonic additive synthesizer.
http://www.rncbc.org/ ||

vee-one

  • VMPK — Virtual MIDI Piano Keyboard. MIDI events generator and receiver. It doesn't produce any sound by itself, but can be used to drive a MIDI synthesizer.
http://vmpk.sourceforge.net/ || vmpk
  • Yoshimi — Software synthesizer, a fork of ZynAddSubFX.
http://yoshimi.sourceforge.net/ || yoshimi
  • ZynAddSubFX — Fully featured software synthesizer capable of making a countless number of instruments, from some common heard from expensive hardware to interesting sounds that you'll boost to an amazing universe of sounds.
http://zynaddsubfx.sourceforge.net/ || zynaddsubfx

1.3.12 Music trackers

  • MilkyTracker — Music application for creating .MOD and .XM module files.
https://milkytracker.titandemo.org/ || milkytracker

1.3.13 DJ

  • Giada — Minimal, hardcore audio tool for DJs, live performers and electronic musicians.
https://giadamusic.com/ || giada
  • Luppp — Music creation tool, intended for live use. The focus is on real time processing and a fast and intuitive workflow.
http://openavproductions.com/luppp/ || luppp
  • Mixxx — Integrates the tools DJs need to perform creative live mixes with digital music files.
https://mixxx.org/ || mixxx
  • xwax — Digital Vinyl System (DVS) for Linux. It allows DJs and turntablists to playback digital audio files (MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, AAC and more), controlled using a normal pair of turntables via timecoded vinyls.
http://xwax.org/ || xwax

1.3.14 Audio effects

  • Calf Plugin Pack for JACK — Process and produce sounds using a set of plugins with JACK interface. (calfjackhost)
https://calf-studio-gear.org/ || calf
  • guitarix — Virtual guitar amplifier for JACK.
https://guitarix.org/ || guitarix2

1.3.15 Audio visualizers

  • projectM — Music visualizer which uses 3D accelerated iterative image-based rendering.
http://projectm.sourceforge.net/ || JACK: projectm-jack, PulseAudio: projectm-pulseaudio

1.3.16 Volume control

See also PulseAudio#Front-ends.

  • alsamixer — Soundcard mixer for ALSA soundcard driver, with ncurses interface.
https://alsa-project.org/ || alsa-utils
  • GNOME ALSA Mixer — ALSA mixer for GNOME.
https://launchpad.net/gnome-alsamixer || gnome-alsamixer
  • KMix — KDE volume control program.
https://kde.org/applications/multimedia/kmix/ || kmix
  • MATE Volume Control — Audio mixer application and system tray applet for MATE to mix audio and adjust volume levels of various audio mixer devices.
https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-media || mate-media
  • QasTools — Collection of desktop applications for the Linux sound system ALSA. It provides QasMixer (mixer), QasHctl (HCTL mixer) and QasConfig (configuration browser).
http://xwmw.org/qastools/ || qastools
  • Volume Icon — Another volume control for your system tray with channel selection, themes and an external mixer.
http://softwarebakery.com/maato/volumeicon.html || volumeicon
  • VolWheel — A little application which lets you control the sound volume easily through a tray icon you can scroll on.
http://oliwer.net/b/volwheel.html || volwheel

1.3.17 CD ripping

See Optical disc drive#Audio CD.

1.4 Video

1.4.1 Video players

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of video player software.

1.4.1.1 Console
  • FFplay — Very simple and portable media player using the FFmpeg libraries and the SDL library.
http://ffmpeg.org/ || ffmpeg
  • gst-play-1.0 — Simple command line playback testing tool for GStreamer.
https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/ || gst-plugins-base-libs
  • MPlayer — Video player that supports a complete and versatile array of video and audio formats.
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/news.html || mplayer
  • mpv — Movie player based on MPlayer and mplayer2.
https://mpv.io/ || mpv
  • VLC media player — Command-line version of the famous video player that can play smoothly high definition videos in the TTY. The rc interface can be launched with vlc -I rc, and the ncurses interface can be launched with vlc -I ncurses.
https://www.videolan.org/vlc/ || vlc
1.4.1.2 Graphical
1.4.1.2.1 GStreamer-based
  • GNOME Twitch — Twitch client for GNOME using GStreamer.
http://gnome-twitch.vinszent.com/ || gnome-twitch

gnome.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Videos || totem
  • Pantheon Videos — Video player and library app designed for elementary OS using GStreamer.
https://github.com/elementary/videos || pantheon-videos
  • Parole — Modern media player based on the GStreamer framework.
http://docs.xfce.org/apps/parole/start || parole
  • Snappy — Powerful media player with a minimalistic interface that uses GStreamer.
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Snappy || snappy-player
  • Xnoise — GTK+ and GStreamer-based media player for both audio and video with "a slick GUI, great speed and lots of features." (development ceased)
http://www.xnoise-media-player.com/ || xnoise
1.4.1.2.2 mpv-based
  • Baka MPlayer — Free and open source, cross-platform, mpv based multimedia player (Qt 5).
http://bakamplayer.u8sand.net/ || baka-mplayer
  • Deepin Movie — Movie player for Deepin desktop based on mpv.
https://www.deepin.org/en/original/deepin-movie/ || deepin-movie
  • GNOME MPV — Simple frontend for mpv (GTK+ 3).
https://gnome-mpv.github.io/ || gnome-mpv
  • mpv — Very basic GUI for mpv. Can be launched with mpv --player-operation-mode=pseudo-gui.
https://mpv.io/ || mpv
  • SMPlayer — Qt multimedia player with extra features (CSS themes, YouTube integration, etc.) based on mpv. It can use MPlayer as alternative backend.
http://smplayer.sourceforge.net/ || smplayer
1.4.1.2.3 MPlayer-based
  • GNOME MPlayer — Simple GTK+-based GUI for MPlayer.
http://kdekorte.googlepages.com/gnomemplayer || gnome-mplayer
  • KMPlayer — Simple KDE frontend for MPlayer and video player plugin for Konqueror. It can use Phonon as alternative backend.
http://kmplayer.kde.org/ || kmplayer
1.4.1.2.4 Other

kdemultimedia group.

https://www.kde.org/applications/multimedia/dragonplayer/ || dragon
  • Kaffeine — Very versatile KDE media player that, by default, utilizes VLC as its backend and has excellent support of digital TV (DVB).
https://www.kde.org/applications/multimedia/kaffeine/ || kaffeine
  • Kodi — Media player and entertainment hub for digital media.
https://kodi.tv/ || kodi
  • Minitube — YouTube desktop application written in C++ using Phonon and Qt.
https://flavio.tordini.org/minitube || minitube
  • QtAV Player — Simple media player based on QtAV and FFmpeg. Run with Player or QMLPlayer.
http://www.qtav.org/ || qtav
  • tvtime — High quality television application for use with video capture cards.
https://linuxtv.org/ || tvtime
  • VLC media player — Middleweight video player with support for a wide variety of audio and video formats.
https://www.videolan.org/vlc/ || vlc
  • xine — Free multimedia player.
http://www.xine-project.org || xine-ui

1.4.2 Video converters

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of video converters and Codecs and containers#Container format tools.

1.4.2.1 Console
  • Avidemux CLI — Free video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks.
http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/ || avidemux-cli
  • FFmpeg — Complete, cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video.
http://ffmpeg.org/ || ffmpeg
  • HandBrake CLI — Simple yet powerful video transcoder ideal for batch mkv/x264 ripping.
http://handbrake.fr/ || handbrake-cli
  • MEncoder — Free command line video decoding, encoding and filtering tool.
http://mplayerhq.hu/ || mencoder
  • Transcode — Command line tool for video stream processing.
https://bitbucket.org/france/transcode-tcforge || transcode
1.4.2.2 Graphical
  • HandBrake — Simple yet powerful video transcoder ideal for batch mkv/x264 ripping. GTK+ version.
http://handbrake.fr/ || handbrake
  • Transmageddon — Simple python application for transcoding video into formats supported by GStreamer.
http://www.linuxrising.org/ || transmageddon

1.4.3 Video editors

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of video editing software.

  • Avidemux — Free video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks.
http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/ || avidemux-qt
  • Blender — Fully integrated 3D graphics creation suite with a built-in non-linear video editor.
http://www.blender.org/ || blender
  • Kdenlive — Non-linear video editor designed for basic to semi-professional work.
http://kdenlive.org/ || kdenlive
  • OpenShot — Non-linear video editor based on MLT framework.
http://www.openshotvideo.com/ || openshot
  • Pitivi — Video editor designed to be intuitive and integrate well in the GNOME desktop.
http://www.pitivi.org/ || pitivi
  • Shotcut — Shotcut is a free, open source, cross-platform video editor.
http://www.shotcut.org/ || shotcut

1.4.4 Subtitles

  • subdl — Command-line tool for downloading subtitles from opensubtitles.org.
https://github.com/akexakex/subdl || subdl
  • SubDownloader — Automatic download/upload of subtitles using fast hashing.
https://github.com/subdownloader/subdownloader || subdownloader

1.4.5 Subtitle editors

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of subtitle editors.

https://github.com/Aegisub/Aegisub || aegisub
  • Gaupol — Full-featured subtitle editor.
https://otsaloma.io/gaupol/ || gaupol
http://www.gnomesubtitles.org/ || gnome-subtitles
  • Subtitle Editor — GTK+3 tool to edit subtitles for GNU/Linux/*BSD.
http://kitone.github.io/subtitleeditor/ || subtitleeditor

1.4.6 Screencast

See Screen capture#Screencast software.

1.4.7 Webcam

See also FFmpeg#Recording webcam and Wikipedia:Comparison of webcam software.

  • Cheese — Take photos and videos with your webcam, with fun graphical effects.
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Cheese || cheese
  • Guvcview — Simple interface for capturing and viewing video from v4l2 devices.
http://guvcview.sourceforge.net/ || GTK+: guvcview, Qt: guvcview-qt
  • Kamoso — Webcam recorder from KDE community.
https://userbase.kde.org/Kamoso || kamoso
  • v4l2ucp — Universal control panel for V4L2 devices.
http://v4l2ucp.sourceforge.net/ || v4l2ucp
  • v4l-utils — Provides a series of utilities for media devices.
https://linuxtv.org/ || v4l-utils
  • ZArt — GUI for G'MIC real-time manipulations on the output of a webcam.
https://gmic.eu/ || zart

1.4.8 DVD authoring

See also Wikipedia:List of DVD authoring applications.

  • Devede — Program to create VideoDVDs and CDs.
http://www.rastersoft.com/programas/devede.html || devede

1.4.9 DVD ripping

See Optical disc drive#DVD-Video.

1.5 Collection managers

  • MediaElch — Media manager for Kodi. Information about movies, TV shows, concerts and music are stored as nfo files.
https://www.kvibes.de/en/mediaelch/ || mediaelch
  • Tellico — KDE application for organizing various collections (books, video, music, coins, etc.).
http://tellico-project.org/ || tellico
  • vMovieDB — Movie collection manager for the Gnome desktop.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/vmoviedb/ || vmoviedb

1.6 Media servers

  • Icecast — Streaming media (audio/video) server which currently supports Ogg (Vorbis and Theora), Opus, WebM and MP3 streams.
https://icecast.org/ || icecast
  • ReadyMedia — Simple media server software, with the aim of being fully compliant with DLNA/UPnP-AV clients.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/minidlna/ || minidlna
  • Rygel — UPnP AV MediaServer and MediaRenderer that allows you to easily share audio, video and pictures, and control of media player on your home network.
https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Rygel || rygel

1.7 Metadata

  • ExifTool — Command-line application for reading, writing and editing meta information in a wide variety of files.
https://sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/ || perl-image-exiftool
  • Exiv2 — Command line utility to manage image metadata. It provides fast and easy read and write access to the Exif, IPTC and XMP metadata and the ICC Profile embedded within digital images in various formats.
http://exiv2.org/ || exiv2
  • ffprobe — Gather information from multimedia streams and print it in human- and machine-readable fashion.
https://ffmpeg.org/ffprobe.html || ffmpeg
  • jhead — Exif jpeg header manipulation tool.
http://sentex.net/~mwandel/jhead/ || jhead
  • MediaInfo — Convenient unified display of the most relevant technical and tag data for video and audio files.
https://mediaarea.net/en/MediaInfo || CLI: mediainfo, GUI: mediainfo-gui
  • sndfile-info — Obtaining information about the contents of an audio file.
http://mega-nerd.com/libsndfile/ || libsndfile

1.8 Mobile device managers

https://whoozle.github.io/android-file-transfer-linux/ || android-file-transfer
  • gnokii — Tools and user space driver for use with mobile phones.
http://www.gnokii.org/ || gnokii
https://gmtp.sourceforge.io/ || gmtp
  • GNOME Phone Manager — Control your mobile phone from your GNOME desktop.
https://wiki.gnome.org/PhoneManager || gnome-phone-manager
  • KDE Connect — Aims to communicate all your devices.
https://community.kde.org/KDEConnect || kdeconnect
  • Modem Manager GUI — Control EDGE/3G/4G broadband modem specific functions.
http://linuxonly.ru/page/modem-manager-gui || modem-manager-gui
  • Wammu — Manage data in your cell phone such as contacts, calendar or messages.
https://wammu.eu/ || wammu

1.9 Optical disc burning

See Optical disc drive#Burning CD/DVD/BD with a GUI.