fotocd.sh bash-script: Build (S)VCDs with Photos and Videos with htmlpart. Add other fileformats (e.g. pdf, OpenOffice.org-files...) in htmlpart. (S)VCD-Navigation through albums and chapters, which are directorys on harddisk. Menus with thumbnails.
SlickSlice is a bash script powered by ImageMagick and Mplayer tools that creates a timeline representation of a videofile - one big image with screenshot thumbnails taken at automatically set periods of time.