[SATLUG] linux multimedia tools

[Mitch Thompson]

travis+ml-satlug at subspacefield.org wrote:
> So many of these questions are easily answered, but there's a fair
> amount of tool diversity and change, so I thought I'd poll for answers
> I wasn't aware of yet.
>
> 1) For merging split multimedia files, I found mkvmerge.  Any others?
>
> 2) For extracting audio samples from movie files, is that a good tool?
>
> 3) For capturing video from a VCR tape via a Hauppage PVR-250, I think
> I can just cat the video device.  How about sound?  Is there a single
> tool that will do it?
>
> 4) How do I edit the result to cut out blank space at the beginning,
> adjust volume levels, etc?
>
>   
> 5) Suppose I have a video file, and I want to mix a background sound
> track onto it.  Any ideas on how to do this?
>
> These are all relatively easy questions made difficult by the
> seemingly pointless diversity of container file formats.
>
> 6) Any way to view or convert .lit ebooks?
>
> 7) How about .uif? .daa?
>   
I can't answer all your questions (my Hauppage is in my XP box, right
now), but 4 & 5 can be done with 'avidemux'.
Probably 1, 2 and 3 as well.

For 6 & 7, maybe FBReader?

Have you googled?

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