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Deepin Movie
Deepin
Deepin Movie provides an intuitive easy-to-use operation interface and rich complete shortcuts. You can complete all play operations by keyboard, which will make you thoroughly get rid of the constraint of mouse clicks. Video files in various formats can be played through Deepin Movie, and you can use the streaming function to easily enjoy online video resources. Deepin Movie is a full-featured video player developed by Deepin Technology, which supports playing local and streaming media in multiple video formats. The newest beta version is based on git code and compiled by auto build program, the program may be in an unstable situation.Starting Price: Free -
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Parole
XFCE
Parole is a modern simple media player based on the GStreamer framework and written to fit well in the Xfce desktop. Parole features playback of local media files, DVD/CD, and live streams. Parole is extensible via plugins, for a complete how to write a plugin for Parole see the Plugins API documentation and the plugins directory which contains some useful examples. Parole is a modern simple media player based on the GStreamer framework and written to fit well in the Xfce desktop. It is designed with simplicity, speed, and resource usage in mind. Parole features playback of local media files, including a video with subtitles support, audio CDs, DVDs, and live streams. Parole is completely free, meaning anyone can use it, redistribute and/or modify it under the GNU general public license. GStreamer Base plugins comprises the base functionality of GStreamer and are required for normal operation. GStreamer Good plugins comprises a set of high quality plug-ins under the LGPL license.Starting Price: Free -
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Kaffeine
KDE
Kaffeine is a media player. What makes it different from the others is its excellent support of digital TV (DVB). Kaffeine has a user-friendly interface so that even first-time users can start immediately playing their movies, from DVD (including DVD menus, titles, chapters, etc.), VCD, or a file. Media player with support for digital television (DVB-C/S/S2/T, ATSC, CI/CAM) It is now possible to run Kaffeine from Docker without installing it on your machine by using Docker. You need to have Docker already installed and configured. By default, libVLC will try to use hardware acceleration on the machine with Kaffeine. As described in Kaffeine's documentation, xmltv files are now supported. Kaffeine's internal logic will map the channels obtained by the grabber into the channel names it has stored internally.Starting Price: Free -
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Bomi
Bomi
A powerful and easy-to-use multimedia player. Bomi is a multimedia player formerly known as CMPlayer, which is aimed for easy usage but also provides various powerful features and convenience functions. Just install it and enjoy it! There will be already what you expect. If you don't like it, you can configure almost everything. Bomi is a graphical user interface(GUI) player based on mpv for Linux. By taking the advantage of MPV and GUI, Bomi provides various features. Bomi provides an easy-to-use graphical user interface(GUI). You can find all features in the context menu. All configurations can be done in a preferences dialog. Bomi records all playback history by default and provides a way to resume playback later. Bomi also tracks playback states such as selected audio/loaded subtitles etc. Bomi can generate a playlist based on the file name. Also, the last played playlist is saved and restored automatically.Starting Price: Free -
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Audacious
Audacious
Audacious is an open-source audio player. A descendant of XMMS, Audacious plays your music how you want it, without stealing away your computer’s resources from other tasks. Drag and drop folders and individual song files, search for artists and albums in your entire music library, or create and edit your own custom playlists. Listen to CDs or stream music from the Internet. Tweak the sound with the graphical equalizer or change the dynamic range with audio effects. Enjoy the modern Qt-themed interface or change things up with Winamp Classic skins. Use the plugins included with Audacious to fetch lyrics for your music, display a VU meter, and more. The new release includes several small improvements that have been made over the past year. This release brings the Qt UI to Windows and includes a variety of community contributions. Audacious runs on Linux, on BSD derivatives, and on Microsoft Windows.Starting Price: Free -
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Music Player Daemon (MPD)
Music Player Daemon
Music Player Daemon (MPD) is a flexible, powerful, server-side application for playing music. Through plugins and libraries, it can play a variety of sound files while being controlled by its network protocol. An experimental Android build is available on Google Play. After installing and launching it, MPD will scan the music in your music directory and you can control it as usual with an MPD client. Each plugin usually needs a codec library, which you also need to install. Check the plugin reference for details about the required libraries. Even though it does not “feel” like a Windows application, MPD works well under Windows. Its build process follows the “Linux style” and may seem awkward for Windows people (who are not used to compiling their software, anyway). Audio outputs are devices that actually play the audio chunks produced by MPD. You can configure any number of audio output devices, but there must be at least one.Starting Price: Free -
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Rage
Enlightenment
Rage is a video and audio player written using the Enlightenment Foundation Libraries (EFL) with some interesting features. Rage is a simple video and audio player intended to be slick yet simplistic, much like Mplayer. Use the command line to play media files or just drag and drop them onto the Rage window to add them to a playlist. Run Rage with no command-line arguments to enter video browser mode. From here you can display a graphical overview of everything on your playlist by hitting the / key or just hovering your mouse over the right-hand side of the window. Rage also has a full set of key controls. It automatically searches for and displays album art when playing music if they aren't already cached. It even generates thumbnails for video timelines and allows you to preview clips by hovering your mouse over the position bar at the bottom of the window. Rage will cache any album covers it downloads for future use.Starting Price: Free -
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Baka MPlayer
u8sand
Baka MPlayer is a free and open-source, cross-platform, libmpv-based multimedia player. Its simple design reflects the idea of an uncluttered and enjoyable environment for watching tv shows. Gesture seeking, smart playlist, dim desktop, hardware accelerated playback (vdpau, vaapi, vda). YouTube playback support (and others). Multilingual support (we are looking for translators!). Baka MPlayer was designed around the font called Noto Sans. Noto Sans was used because of its open-source nature and its broad support for Unicode characters. Having the correct font installed insures that what you see is what was intended. By default, Baka MPlayer will compile in English if no language is specified during compilation. For more configuration options see the configure source file or read the manual.Starting Price: Free -
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Snappy
The GNOME Project
Snappy is an open-source media player that gathers the power and flexibility of GStreamer inside the comfort of a minimalistic clutter interface.Starting Price: Free -
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Miro Player
Miro Player
It's very easy to switch from iTunes to Miro -- without any copying. Just point Miro to your music and video folders and those files will appear. If you don't like Miro (impossible!), nothing's changed. You'd have to be crazy to use a music player that doesn't sync to your phone. Miro is simply the best music and video player for Android phones and tablets. When two Miro's are on the same wifi network, they can stream and transfer music and videos to each other. It's the easiest way to watch a video or play music upstairs if the file is downstairs. Unlike some other media players (cough, cough), Miro is not trying to run your life! Not only is Miro 100% free and open-source, it's made by a non-profit organization. You don't need to be locked down by one corporation to have a great media experience.Starting Price: Free -
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MPlayer
MPlayer
MPlayer is a movie player which runs on many systems. It plays most MPEG/VOB, AVI, Ogg/OGM, VIVO, ASF/WMA/WMV, QT/MOV/MP4, RealMedia, Matroska, NUT, NuppelVideo, FLI, YUV4MPEG, FILM, RoQ, PVA files, supported by many native, XAnim, and Win32 DLL codecs. You can watch VideoCD, SVCD, DVD, 3ivx, DivX 3/4/5, WMV and even H.264 movies. Another great feature of MPlayer is the wide range of supported output drivers. It works with X11, Xv, DGA, OpenGL, SVGAlib, fbdev, AAlib, and DirectFB, but you can use GGI, SDL (and this way all their drivers), VESA (on every VESA compatible card, even without X11!) and some low-level card-specific drivers (for Matrox, 3Dfx and ATI), too! Most of them support software or hardware scaling, so you can enjoy movies in fullscreen. MPlayer supports displaying through some hardware MPEG decoder boards, such as the Siemens DVB, DXR2 and DXR3/Hollywood+.Starting Price: Free -
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Haruna
KDE
The playlist is automatically populated with files from the same folder as the file opened for playback. The playlist can be opened by moving the mouse to the left or right side of the player (depending on user set up, right by default), with a shortcut (P by default) or through a button if opening with the mouse is disabled. The playlist can also overlay the video or push/resize it. Most actions in Haruna can be triggered with a keyboard shortcut that can be configured by the user. Assign actions to mouse buttons: left, middle, right single and double clicks, as well as scroll up and down.Starting Price: Free -
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FreeMoCap
FreeMoCap
The Free Motion Capture Project (FreeMoCap) aims to provide research-grade markerless motion capture software to everyone for free. We're building a user-friendly framework that connects an array of `bleeding edge` open-source tools from the computer vision and machine learning communities to accurately record full-body 3D movement of humans, animals, robots, and other objects. We want to make the newly emerging mind-boggling, future-shaping technologies that drive FreeMoCap's core functionality accessible to communities of people who stand to benefit from them. We follow a “Universal Design” development philosophy, with the goal of creating a system that serves the needs of a professional research scientist while remaining intuitive to a 13-year-old with no technical training and no outside assistance.Starting Price: Free -
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AnimeEffects
AnimeEffects
AnimeEffects is a 2D keyframe animation tool based on deformation of polygon meshes. You can easily operate, quickly shape your idea, and remake at any time if you have changed your mind. You can import image files such as JPEG, PNG, GIF, and PSD for animation resources. For PSD, AnimeEffects supports layer clipping and many blending modes. (PSD is the multiple layer format of Adobe Photoshop and it is supported by various paint tools such as Easy Paint Tool SAI, and Clip Studio Paint, etc.) AnimeEffects supports graphics tablet operation and canvas rotation it’s well-known functions of a paint tool, and it enables intuitive deformation.Starting Price: Free -
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Spine
Esoteric Software
Animation brings video games alive. We believe creating great 2D animation requires not only powerful software, but a powerful workflow. Spine is dedicated to 2D skeletal animation, providing an efficient workflow both for creating amazing animation and for integrating it into your games. Our live demos show a sample of what is possible with Spine, right in your browser window. Play animations in layers, manipulate skeletons dynamically, and much more. Spine Academy has everything you need to get started learning Spine. Whether you like learning on your own or prefer face-to-face workshops and courses, we got you covered. Check our changelog and roadmap to see what changed between Spine versions and what's being worked on, and don't forget to sign up to our community forum. Animating is an iterative process. Spine provides numerous tools to shape and refine your 2D animations.Starting Price: $69 one-time payment -
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TagSpaces
TagSpaces UG
TagSpaces is privacy aware, cross-platform file browser with note-taking capabilities. It helps you organize your files and folders with tags and colors. Free downloads are available for Windows, macOS, Linux, and Android. With the built-in advanced markdown editor, you can create notes that can include tables, todo-lists, math formulas, or diagrams. TagSpaces can connect to any folder on your hard drive and provide a convenient way to browse its content. You have the ability to add labels called tags to any file or folder. Using tags along the folder hierarchy allows you to have cross-references in the folders. The built-in search allows you to find files with any combination of tags. On top of that in the Pro version, you can add descriptions and geo-tags to files and folders. The Pro version gives you the ability to turn every folder to a Kanban board, which can be useful in many ways. With the TagSpaces Web Clipper, you can collect web pages and bookmarks from the Web.Starting Price: $39 per year -
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nomacs
nomacs
nomacs is a free, open source image viewer, which supports multiple platforms. You can use it for viewing all common image formats including RAW and psd images. nomacs features semi-transparent widgets that display additional information such as thumbnails, metadata or histogram. It is able to browse images in zip or MS Office files which can be extracted to a directory. Metadata stored with the image can be displayed and you can add notes to images. A thumbnail preview of the current folder is included as well as a file explorer panel which allows switching between folders. Within a directory, you can apply a file filter, so that only images are displayed whose filenames have a certain string or match a regular expression. Activating the cache allows for instantly switching between images.Starting Price: Free -
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qView
qView
No toolbars or distractions, pure space efficiency. qView was designed from the very start to be as visually minimal and space efficient as possible. No cluttered interface, just your image, and a title bar. You shouldn't have to wait just to view an image, qView opens practically instantly, and switching images is just as quick, all while having low memory and CPU usage. qView features a myriad of configurable preferences to ensure the best experience for as many people as possible. qView supports all common image formats including bmp, gif, jpg, png, tiff, and webp. Whatever operating system you use, the experience is designed to be as native as possible. qView is completely free and open-source software based on Qt5. It can be found on GitHub under the GPLv3 license. Localization support, with many community-supplied translations. The image now reverts to its original resolution when zooming past the scaling threshold (images aren't blurry when zooming in close).Starting Price: Free -
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Picturama
Picturama
Digital image organizer powered by the web. Scan local files, and keep your privacy. Don't upload your private photos to a cloud service and give a big company the rights to analyze them and do whatever they like. Non-destructive, the original images won't be touched (unless you purge the trash). Read various photo formats, JPG, PNG, TIF, WebP, and HEIC/HEIF. Read the raw formats of a whole bunch of cameras (only on Mac and Linux). Browse photos by dates, and view photos in detail (zoomable). View EXIF information, tags, and favorites, rotate, tilt and crop photos, and delete photos.Starting Price: Free -
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Ristretto
XCFE
The Ristretto Image Viewer is an application that can be used to view, and scroll through images. It can be used to run a slideshow of images, open images with other applications like an image-editor or configure an image as the desktop wallpaper. The image types supported by Ristretto are those supported by the gdk-pixbuf library. This library itself supports a number of basic image types (JPEG, PNG, TIFF, etc.), but then relies on optional libraries to extend the range of supported image types. This means that you will have to install these libraries yourself to extend the range of image types supported by Ristretto. Examples: libwmf, libopenraw, libavif, libheif, libjxl, librsvg, webp-pixbuf-loader. The following describes how you can use Ristretto, and how you can configure it to your preferences.Starting Price: Free -
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QuickViewer
QuickViewer
This software performs reading of image data in advance. And drawing the imported image data on the screen with OpenGL. You can browse images with much smoother response than ever before. 2 Page Spread viewing (two images once, for digital books/comics). Select a menu on the main menu which choose a folder from the dialog, or Drag Drop a folder contains image files from Windows Explorer to the window.Starting Price: Free -
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PhotoQt
PhotoQt
PhotoQt is an image viewer that provides a simple and uncluttered interface. Yet, hidden beneath the surface awaits a large array of features. Here are some of its main features (not an exhaustive list). Suggestions for new features are always welcome! Set image as wallpaper directly from inside PhotoQt. Display Exif information (including tagging of faces).Starting Price: Free -
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Viewnior
Viewnior
Created to be simple and elegant. It’s minimalistic interface provides more screen space for your images. Viewnior was inspired by big projects like Eye of Gnome, because of it’s usability and richness, and by GPicView, because of it’s lightweight design and minimal interface. So here comes Viewnior – small and light, with no compromise with the quality of it’s functions. The program is made with better integration in mind (follows Gnome HIG2).Starting Price: Free -
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Ephoto
Enlightenment
Ephoto is an image viewer and editor written using the Enlightenment Foundation Libraries (EFL). It focuses on simplicity and ease of use, while taking advantage of the speed and small footprint provided by EFL. Enlightenment was launched in the 1990s by Carsten "Rasterman" Haitzler as an easy to use Window Manager (WM) for X11. Since then it has expanded to include the one million lines of C code that form the Enlightenment Foundation Libraries (EFL) and a diverse set of applications. There's a vibrant and active community of developers and users who work on and use the code every day. Editing your images with features, such as cropping, auto enhance, blurring, sharpening, brightness/contrast/gamma adjustments, hue/saturation/value adjustments, and color level adjustment. Applying artistic filters to your images, such as black and white and old photo. Browsing the filesystem and displaying images in an easy to use grid view.Starting Price: Free -
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Photivo
Photivo
Photivo is a free and open source (GPL3) photo processor. It handles your RAW files as well as your bitmap files (TIFF, JPEG, BMP, PNG and many more) in a non-destructive 16 bit processing pipe with gimp workflow integration and batch mode. Photivo tries to provide the best algorithms available; even if this implies some redundancy. So, to my knowledge, it offers the most flexible and powerful denoise, sharpen and local contrast (fake HDR) algorithms in the open source world. (If not, let's port them. Although, to get the desired results, there may be a quite steep learning curve. Photivo is just a developer, no manager and no “Gimp”. It is intended to be used in a workflow together with digiKam/F-Spot/Shotwell and Gimp. It needs a quite strong computer and is not aimed at beginners.Starting Price: Free -
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Pi7 Image Tool
Pi7 Code Solutions
Compress JPEG images to 50kb using the Pi7 image compressor tool. Reduce the size of the JPEG image to 50kb with this tool. How to Compress JPEG to 50kb? With the Pi7 Image Compressor tool, you can compress your JPEG image to 50kb by following the steps given below:- 1) Open the "Pi7 Image Compressor" tool. 2) Enter 50kb In the input field. 3) Press the 'Compress' button and download the image. There is a variety of tools available online that can compress images to 50kb. But Pi7's image compressor provides some advantages over other image compressors. Our team designed an image tool according to the user's experience, so anyone can compress their JPEG to 50kb. Security of your jpeg files is our priority. When you upload a JPEG file on our server then after some time of compression that image will be deleted from the server automatically. All your personal document images are secure with us. Compress yoStarting Price: 0 -
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view3dscene
Castle Game Engine
view3dscene is a viewer for many 3D model formats: glTF, X3D, VRML, Collada, 3DS, MD3, Wavefront OBJ, STL and (2D) Spine JSON and sprite sheets (in CGE, Cocos2d, Starling XML formats). Explore the virtual world with collisions, gravity, animations, sensors, shadows, mirrors, shaders, and more. You can also convert all models to X3D. If you already have Castle Game Engine, then just run view3dscene executable in CGE bin subdirectory. There's no need to download it separately. All the 3D and 2D model formats supported by Castle Game Engine can be opened, X3D, VRML, Collada, 3DS, MD3, Wavefront OBJ, Spine JSON. Various navigation modes are available. Examine (easily rotate and move the whole model), walk (walk like in FPS games, with collision detection, gravity and related features available), fly (similar to Walk but without gravity), 2D. You can convert between X3D classic and XML encodings (in both directions), and you can convert from VRML 2 to X3D.Starting Price: Free -
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Mobiotics
Mobiotics
Mobiotics is a new-age media technology company providing end-to-end OTT platform, broadcast and digitization solutions. With our decade-long experience in OTT and Broadcasting technologies, we provide next-generation immersive video experiences by incorporating AR, VR, Deep Learning, and context-aware technologies. We offer products suitable for all segments of customers (Solopreneurs to large enterprises) and OTT solutions for every vertical - Entertainment, Music, Education and Training, Health and Fitness, Media and Broadcasting, etc. What sets us apart is that we allow our customers to launch cutting-edge OTT services in the least possible timeframe. -
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Algonaut Atlas 2
Algonaut
The most creative combinations of sound and rhythm. Craft your best beats. Don't just collect sample files, find out what they're really capable of. Atlas is built to show you the right options at the right time. Quickly hear samples in context with other samples and drum patterns. All the most used features are easily visible and accessible so you can work as fast as possible. Show and hide panels to fit the task at hand. Atlas is made to work with whichever samples, MIDI, external apps, and hardware you throw at it. We play nice with everyone so there aren't limitations. No more unwieldy file lists! Let our AI find and organize all your drum sounds. Your eyes and ears can now tell you which direction to search in. Build as many different maps as you want. Atlas lets you instantly change between them. We handle all the major formats and a lot of the less common ones too, WAV, AIFF, FLAC, OGG, MP3, WMA, and more. Choose your own sounds or let Atlas quickly provide inspiration.Starting Price: $99 one-time payment -
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MusicBrainz Picard
Picard
Picard supports all popular music formats, including MP3, FLAC, OGG, M4A, WMA, WAV, and more. Picard uses the open and community-maintained MusicBrainz database to provide accurate information about millions of music releases. Picard uses AcoustID audio fingerprints, allowing files to be identified by the actual music, even if they have no metadata. Picard can find and download the correct cover art for your albums. A flexible but easy-to-learn scripting language allows you to exactly specify how your music files will be named and how the tags will look like. If you need a particular feature, you can choose from a selection of available plugins or write your own.Starting Price: Free
