Open Source Perl Video Software

GraphicsMagick provides a set of commandline tools and programming APIs for manipulating, editing, and converting raster and vector images. It is derived from ImageMagick, with the objective of providing better stability and performance than ImageMagick while retaining the original MIT/X11 license.

A comprehensive software suite for reading barcodes. Supports EAN/UPC, Code 128, Code 39, Interleaved 2 of 5 and QR Code. Includes libraries and applications for decoding captured barcode images and using a video device (eg, webcam) as a barcode scanner.

youtube-viewer is a lightweight YouTube client for Linux, providing a command-line interface to search and play YouTube videos. It offers a minimalistic alternative to browsing YouTube through a web browser.​

AcidRip is an automated front end for MPlayer/Mencoder written in Perl, using Gtk2::Perl for a graphical interface. Makes encoding a DVD just one button click!

LiVES mixes realtime video performance and non-linear editing in one professional quality application. It is designed to be simple to use, yet powerful. It is small in size, yet it has many advanced features. Using LiVES, you can start editing and making video right away, without having to worry about formats, frame sizes, or framerates. It is a very flexible tool which is used by both professional VJ's and video editors - mix and switch clips from the keyboard, use dozens of realtime effects, trim and edit your clips in the clip editor, and bring them together using the multitrack timeline. You can even record your performance in real time, and then edit it further or render it straight away. For the more technically minded, the application is frame and sample accurate, and it can be controlled remotely or scripted for use as a video server. And it supports all of the latest free standards.

A multimedia authoring and processing framework and a video playout server for television broadcasting.

MoviX is a series of 3 tiny -live CD- Linux Distros aimed at MultiMedia playing. eMoviX makes a CD able to play by itself all audio/video files it contains (DivX, XviD, QuickTime, MP3 etc.). MoviX&MoviX2 transform in secs yr PC in a powerful MM box.

This perl script downloads as many videos from Youtube as you want. It reads a text file containing the all of the urls to the video(s). You can use it to easily download 1 video or 100 videos.

An ffmpeg GUI for video encoding. Supports DVD and files and converts to all formats allowed by ffmpeg, including the iPod, PSP, and other popular formats.

AstroCam is an C based daemon process for Linux and BSD to control stepmotors via SMC 800 cards. AstroCam also includes both, an PHP-based WebInterface and one based on Perl, for remote Stepengine control. You can control webcams with it.

autopilot is a command and control system for helicopters (and can be extended for fixed wing aircraft). It provides a three-axis EFIS and moving map on the ground station. The unmanned aerial robot has instrumentation for attitude, engine and position.

clive is a command line video extraction tool for Youtube and other similar video websites that require Adobe Flash for viewing the content.

ASDF is A Simple DVD Frontend, and is intended to make it easier to watch DVDs using MPlayer. It's written in Perl using the Qt toolkit.

A Perl script that utilizes transcode, ffmpeg, mjpeg, and dvdauthor to convert a DivX movie to DVD compliant files (AUDIO_TS, VIDEO_TS). Pipes are used to combine the mpeg2 conversion, multiplexing, and dvdauthor'ing into one step.

Freecity is a "Freeplayer Modification" for the french ISP "Free". Free's customers have a so-called freebox plugged to your TV, that transforms it to a multimedia center.

Kageki Software includes the best in modern technology in our streaming media server software. This allows users to achieve greater performance than existing multimedia streaming servers.

Kalva is a lightweight videoapplication using MPlayer and MEncoder to do the real work (schedules via atd and crond). Kalva's main goal is to be quite simple to setup and easy to use. But apart from that it provides quite some useful features.

TiVoDecode Manager (TDM) is an Applescript Studio interface (i.e. "wrapper") for the tivodecode program that automates the process of downloading of standalone TiVo Series 2 files to your computer and decoding into MPEG-2 or MPEG-4 files.

TivoTool allows you to download, stream, or burn videos from your Series 1 or 2 Tivo or DTivo. You can also send videos to iTunes for viewing on a video enabled iPod. The command line version consists of a subset of these functions and works on Linux.

This project is an easy to use web interface to record TV shows to your hard drive. It is an improved version of webvcr which adds xmltv support, nvrec support, favorites, an improved schedule viewer, and much more.

A movie database for large movie collections written in Perl. It ships with an intelligent voting system for many users. aviManager attempts to find the best movie to watch.

A GUI for dvd to matroska backups, bitterbpp uses autodetection and bits/pixel estimates to generate high quality output. It features multiple audio/subtitle track capabilities (direct copy and/or vorbis transcoding), and supports different video codecs.

...makes conversion of DVDs to AVIs under Linux a real breeze.

Variations is a digital music library software system that provides online access to streaming audio and scanned score images with a flexible access control framework to ensure respect for intellectual property.

With mkv2mp4 you can convert mkv HD quality movie to a mp4 container without reencode the whole movie. This file could be played at the Sony Playstation 3