Tasks page

This is a list of the Tasks Debian Multimedia is made of:

Table of contents

• Audio production
• Karaoke
• Multimedia misc tools
• Development
• Music player
• Note editors
• Sound control
• Sound editor
• Sound encoding
• Sound info
• Sound player
• Sound synthesis
• Sound tools
• Video creation
• Video editor
• Video player
• Video tools

Audio production - Software for the production of music and audio

Here are some packages that might be useful for audio production.

Official Debian packages with high relevance

Ardour

digital audio workstation (graphical gtk2 interface)

Calf-plugins

pack of audio plugins - effects and instruments

Hydrogen

advanced drum machine/step sequencer

Invada-studio-plugins-lv2

Invada Studio Plugins - a set of LV2 audio plugins

Jackd

JACK Audio Connection Kit (default server package)

Official Debian packages with lower relevance

Audacity

fast, cross-platform audio editor

Karaoke - Packages which support karaoke game

Debian contains a some programs to support people who like to play Karaoke. Here you can have an overview.

Official Debian packages with high relevance

Kmid

??? missing short description for package kmid :-(

Performous

karaoke game that allows user supplied songs

Performous-tools

karaoke game that allows user supplied songs - tools

Multimedia misc tools - Collection of multipurpose multimedia tools

Here we collect packages which might be used for miscellaneous issues in different fields of multimedia

Official Debian packages with high relevance

Brasero

CD/DVD burning application for GNOME

K3b

Sophisticated CD/DVD burning application

Pyrenamer

mass file renamer written in PyGTK

Shutter

feature-rich screenshot program

Development - Software for development of multimedia applications

Here are some packages that might be useful for development of multimedia applications.

Official Debian packages with high relevance

Libavcodec-dev

Development files for libavcodec

Music player - Packages which support musicians

Debian contains a some programs to support the work of musicians. Here you can have an overview.

Official Debian packages with high relevance

Bristol

vintage synthesizer emulator

Freebirth

Bass synthesizer/sample player/sequencer

Gtick

Metronome application

Hydrogen

advanced drum machine/step sequencer

Solfege

Ear training software

Official Debian packages with lower relevance

Cmt

a collection of LADSPA plugins

Fluid-soundfont-gm

Fluid (R3) General MIDI SoundFont (GM)

Fluidsynth

Real-time MIDI software synthesizer

Lingot

accurate and easy to use musical instrument tuner

Mcp-plugins

LADSPA plugins designed for Alsa Modular Synth

Qsynth

fluidsynth MIDI sound synthesiser front-end

Score-reading-trainer

trainer for reading music notes

Swh-plugins

Steve Harris's LADSPA plugins

Note editors - Note editors in Debian

Debian contains a several programs to edit notes. Here you can have an overview.

Official Debian packages with high relevance

Beast

music synthesis and composition framework

Denemo

gtk+ front end to GNU Lilypond

Kguitar

Stringed instrument tablature editor for KDE

Lilypond

program for typesetting sheet music

Mscore

Dummy transitional package for musescore

Noteedit

KDE Music Editor

Songwrite

guitar tablature editor and player

Tuxguitar

Multitrack guitar tablature editor and player (gp3 to gp5)

Official Debian packages with lower relevance

M-tx

Simple music-from-text language for use with PMX/MusiXTeX

Musixlyr

??? missing short description for package musixlyr :-(

Musixtex

Typeset music scores with TeX

Pmx

Preprocessor for MusiXTeX

Sound control - Packages which allow to control sound hardware and servers

These packages are helpful to control your sound hardware.

Official Debian packages with high relevance

Jackd

JACK Audio Connection Kit (default server package)

Qjackctl

User interface for controlling the JACK sound server

Sound editor - Sound editors in Debian

Debian contains a several programs to edit sound. Here you can have an overview.

Official Debian packages with high relevance

Audacity

fast, cross-platform audio editor

Rosegarden

music editor and MIDI/audio sequencer

Terminatorx

realtime audio synthesizer

Official Debian packages with lower relevance

Pitivi

non-linear audio/video editor using GStreamer

Sweep

Audio editor and live playback tool

Sound encoding - Packages to fetch sound tracks from different sources

Debian contains a several programs to obtain digital music either from ripping CDs, digitizers or others. This is a collection of such packages.

Official Debian packages with high relevance

Asunder

graphical audio CD ripper and encoder

Crip

terminal-based ripper/encoder/tagger tool

Distmp3

A Perl client and daemon for distributed audio encoding

Grip

??? missing short description for package grip :-(

Jack

Rip and encode CDs with one command

Morituri

CD ripper aiming for maximum quality

Pacpl

multi-purpose audio converter/ripper/tagger script

Ripit

Textbased audio CD ripper

Ripperx

a GTK-based audio CD ripper/encoder

Sound-juicer

GNOME CD Ripper

Sound info - ID tag editors, command line and GUI

These package might be useful to maintain collection of sound files, edit tags, rename filles according to their tags etc. They might feature a graphical user interface or work as scripts in batch mode.

Official Debian packages with high relevance

Easytag

viewing, editing and writing ID3 tags

Entagged

Java Audio File Tagger

Exfalso

audio tag editor for GTK+

Gmusicbrowser

graphic jukebox for large collections of mp3/ogg/flac/mpc files

Id3ren

id3 tagger and renamer

Lltag

Automatic command-line mp3/ogg/flac file tagger and renamer

Mp3rename

Rename mp3 files based on id3tags

Mpgtx

toolbox to manipulate MPEG files (video, system, and audio)

Picard

Next-Generation MusicBrainz audio files tagger

Tagtool

Tool to tag and rename MP3 and Ogg Vorbis files

Official Debian packages with lower relevance

Flac

Free Lossless Audio Codec - command line tools

Juk

music jukebox / music player

Vorbis-tools

several Ogg Vorbis tools

Sound player - Sound players in Debian

Debian contains a several programs to play sound. Here you can have an overview.

Official Debian packages with high relevance

Amarok

easy to use media player based on the KDE Platform

Audacious

small and fast audio player which supports lots of formats

Banshee

Media Management and Playback application

Juk

music jukebox / music player

Listen

music player and manager for GNOME

Mixxx

Digital Disc Jockey Interface

Rhythmbox

music player and organizer for GNOME

Totem

Simple media player for the GNOME desktop based on GStreamer

Sound synthesis - Packages to create synthesized sounds

Packages that make it possible to synthesize new sounds using the computer, either in real-time or not.

Official Debian packages with high relevance

Horgand

JACK capable organ softsynth

Lmms

Linux Multimedia Studio

Puredata

realtime computer music and graphics system

Qutecsound

frontend for the csound sound processor

Supercollider

real time audio synthesis programming language

Yoshimi

software synthesizer based on ZynAddSubFX

Zynjacku

JACK based host for LV2 synths and LV2 plugins

Official Debian packages with lower relevance

Amb-plugins

ambisonics LADPSA plugins

Ardour

digital audio workstation (graphical gtk2 interface)

Caps

C* Audio Plugin Suite

Cmt

a collection of LADSPA plugins

Csladspa

LADSPA plugin for Csound

Fil-plugins

parametric equalizer LADSPA plugin

Jackd

JACK Audio Connection Kit (default server package)

Mcp-plugins

LADSPA plugins designed for Alsa Modular Synth

Rev-plugins

gverb-like ladspa plugin

Swh-plugins

Steve Harris's LADSPA plugins

Tap-plugins

Tom's Audio Processing LADSPA plugins

Vco-plugins

LADSPA plugin sporting anti-aliased oscillators

No known packages available

Rt-grace

Graphical Real-time Algorithmic Composition Environment)

Sound tools - Different tools for handling sound in Debian

Debian contains a several programs useful for working with sound that do not fit in any other category. Here you can have an overview.

Official Debian packages with high relevance

Cdlabelgen

generates front cards and tray cards for CDs and DVDs

Clamz

command-line program to download MP3's from Amazon

Earcandy

Sound level manager for PulseAudio

Freecycle

Plastic surgery for your audio loops

Pianobar

console based player for Pandora radio

Spek

acoustic spectrum analyser

Official Debian packages with lower relevance

Qmidinet

MIDI Network Gateway via UDP/IP Multicast

Video creation - Packages to create videos

Debian contains a several programs to create videos for instance by recording actions on your screen. Here you can have an overview.

Official Debian packages with high relevance

Pyvnc2swf

screen recording tool with Flash (SWF) output

Video editor - Video editors in Debian

Debian contains a several programs to edit videos. Here you can have an overview.

Official Debian packages with high relevance

Dvbcut

Qt application for cutting parts out of DVB streams

Freej

realtime video mixer and linear video editor

Kdenlive

non-linear video editor

Kino

Non-linear editor for Digital Video data

Openmovieeditor

a simple non-linear video editor

Openshot

Create and edit videos and movies

Official Debian packages with lower relevance

Pitivi

non-linear audio/video editor using GStreamer

Video player - Video players in Debian

Debian contains a several programs to play video. Here you can have an overview.

Official Debian packages with high relevance

Ffmpeg

Multimedia player, server, encoder and transcoder (transitional package)

Gst123

GStreamer based command line media player

Gxine

the xine video player, GTK+/Gnome user interface

Mplayer

movie player for Unix-like systems

Winff

graphical video and audio batch converter using ffmpeg

Xbmc

XBMC Media Center (arch-independent data package)

Video tools - Different tools for handling video in Debian

Debian contains a several programs useful for working with video that do not fit in any other category. Here you can have an overview.

Official Debian packages with high relevance

Abby

front-end for cclive and clive

Cclive

lightweight command line video extraction tool

Clive

video extraction utility for YouTube, Google Video and others

Dvbcut

Qt application for cutting parts out of DVB streams

Fatrat

multi-protocol download manager, feature rich and extensible via plugin

Libgdata1.4-cil

Google GData CLI client library

Libwebservice-youtube-perl

Perl module that provides an interface to YouTube services

Metacafe-dl

download videos from metacafe.com (transitional package)

Miro

GTK+ based RSS video aggregator

Nicovideo-dl

Download videos from www.nicovideo.jp

Slimrat

GUI application for automated downloading from file hosters

Slimrat-nox

CLI application for automated downloading from file hosters

Totem-plugin-arte

Totem plugin to watch streams from arte.tv

Totem-plugins

Plugins for the Totem media player

Winff

graphical video and audio batch converter using ffmpeg

Youtube-dl

downloader of videos from YouTube and other sites

Official Debian packages with lower relevance

Python-gdata

Google Data Python client library