Open Source BeOS Multimedia Software

Matroska is an open standard audio/video container format. Visit our homepage at http://www.matroska.org

FAAC is an Advanced Audio Coder (MPEG2-AAC, MPEG4-AAC). The goal of FAAC is to explore the possibilities of AAC and exceed the quality of the currently best MP3 encoders. You can submit pull requests via GitHub: https://github.com/knik0/faac https://github.com/knik0/faad2

mp3splt is a free utility to split mp3, ogg vorbis and FLAC files without decoding, selecting begin/end time; if file is an album, you can get splitpoints automatically from internet or a local cue, cddb file. It also splits Mp3Wrap and AlbumWrap archives. Supports splitting and trimming by silence detection. For mp3 files, both ID3v1 and ID3v2 are supported using original tags or user defined tags.

libxmp is a library that renders module files to PCM data. xmp is a module player for Unix-like systems, based on libxmp, that plays over 90 mainstream and obscure module formats from Amiga, Atari, Acorn, Apple IIgs and PC, including Protracker (MOD), Scream Tracker 3 (S3M), Fast Tracker II (XM) and Impulse Tracker (IT) files.

Streamripper records shoutcast-compatible streams. For shoutcast style streams it finds the "meta data" or track separation data, and uses that as a marker for where the track should be separated.

PlayerPro is a music composer and sound editor ( SoundTracker ) for MOD S3M XM IT UMX . Uses XI, Quicktime or SoundFonts. Currently runs on MacOS and OSX; playback engines also available for Windows and BeOS. Upcoming version 6 will support ALSA (Linux).

Converter of various scalable font formats (most notably TTF) and of the bitmapped BDF format into PostScript Type 1 fonts and metrics (.pfa, .pfb, .afm).

libcdaudio is an unmaintained but portable library that provides wrapper functions to audio CD drives and CDDB and CDIndex database access. cdcd is a commandline CD player using libcdaudio's CDDB and CDIndex functions.

Nosefart plays NSF (NES sound format) files so you can listen to those old tunes without actually having to play the games. It runs in Linux, DOS/Windows, and as a plugin to various players, including Winamp and XMMS. It was mostly written by Matt Co

BeatMix allows you, to create music using the Musical Instrument Digital Interface. It's lightweight, simple to use and it runs on every system.

A scripting language designed to create console-like 2D games.

Media Sequencer for BeOS. Based on a MIDI Sequencer developed by Talin, MeV is currently being updated to run on BeOS R5. The long term goal is to completely separate the sequencer framework & engine from the handling of specific media types.

A 2D side-scolling cross between Super Mario Bros. and Moby Dick. And yes, there are aliens.

The purpose of the Allegro GUI Un-uglification Project is to make Allegro dialogs look good. Right now it emulates GTK, Win95, QNX Photon MicroGUI, BeOS and NeXTStep widget sets.

This is a BeOS video capture media addon and driver for ATI All in Wonder 128, ATI All in Wonder [Pro] and ATI-TV addon boards.

VLSI Vision CPiA kernel driver & mediakit addon (for BeOS 4.5).

The BeOS cddblinkd daemon based off sample code by Be which allows automatic naming of cdda files when you mount a CD.

This is a PDF reader for the Be Operating System (BeOS). BePDF is based on xpdf 3.0. It handles PDF files up to PDF version 1.5 (Acrobat Reader 6.0).

This app/driver provides TVout functionality (NTSC/PAL) on videocards with Nvidia's RIVA TNT1/2, GeForce 256/2/3, if it contains a Brooktree BT868/869, Chrontel CH7003-7007 or Conexant CX25870/25871 TVout chip.

Codeum Scalable Vector Graphics is a tool that will run on BeOS. Its purpose to is to deliver 2D animation via SVG.

These are simple command line audio tools to examine, change the gain, and convert wave and raw audio files.

Cortex acts as a graphical frontend to the BeOS Media Roster. If you are a software developer working with media nodes, Cortex provides you with a basic test platform.

Csound is a sound and music synthesis system, providing facilities for composition and performance over a wide range of platforms. It is not restricted to any style of music, having been used for many years in at least classical, pop, techno, ambient. Csound is now hosted at https://github.com/csound Binary and source-code releases: http://csound.github.io/download.html Mailing lists are hosted by HEAnet at https://listserv.heanet.ie/cgi-bin/wa?A0=CSOUND and https://listserv.heanet.ie/cgi-bin/wa?A0=CSOUND-DEV Archives: mail lists at http://dream.cs.bath.ac.uk/Csound-archive releases: http://dream.cs.bath.ac.uk/Csound-archive/OldReleases/

CyberVRML97 for C++ is a development library of VRML97/2.0 applications. Using the library, you can read and write the VRML files, set and get the scene graph information, draw the geometries, run the behaviors easily.

DIEGO is a streaming mp3 server written in JAVA. It creates a socket connection on your local machine and listens for HTTP requests. It serves up dynamic m3u playlists which are read by WinAmp, which in turn streams the mp3 to your computer.