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Inkscape is an open source SVG editor with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, Visio, etc. Supported SVG features include basic shapes, paths, text, alpha blending, transforms, gradients, node editing, svg-to-png export, grouping, and more. Its main motivation is to provide the Open Source community with a fully XML, SVG, and CSS2 compliant SVG drawing tool.

Supported Operating Systems – Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Mac/Linux

Version – 0.46

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• Inkscape v0.46 [External Server]

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luq Imaging

Elisa is an open source media center connecting the Internet to an all-in-one media player.

The Elisa Media Center has many advanced features that will make your media center experience unique. It features an intuitive interface with a professional look and feel which can be easily used with a standard TV remote control.

Features:

* Movies – Watch your own movies and video clips as well as those found online.
* Music – Manage your music collection by artists or album covers.
* Peripheral Devices – Automatically detects iPods, cameras, hard drives, etc…
* Pictures – Watch your pictures with previews and nicely animated slideshows.
* Fully Networked – Elisa automatically finds media from other computers on your local network.
* Internet – Everything from Flickr to Youtube and other popular internet services.

Author – Fluendo Embedded

Supported Operating Systems – Windows and Linux (Ubuntu. Debian, Mandriva, OpenSUSE, Fedora, Gentoo, ArchLinux, Foresight)

Version – 0.5.27

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• Elisa Media Center v0.5.27 [External Server]

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luq Audio/Video

Miro makes video on the internet way less frustrating and way more enjoyable. You can subscribe to channels of internet video, download videos, and watch them fullscreen, one after the other, all in one application. A built-in channel guide brings you new content every day. It´s free and open for everyone to watch and to broadcast.

Author – Participatory Culture Foundation

Supported Operating Systems – Windows, Mac and Linux (Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, OpenSUSE, Pardus, Mandriva)

Version – 2.0

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• Miro v2.0 [External Server]

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luq Audio/Video, Internet

MediaInfo supplies technical and tag information about a video or audio file. This is a free software (free of charge and free for access to source code, GPL or LGPL licence).

What information can I get from MediaInfo?

* General: title, author, director, album, track number, date, duration…
* Video: codec, aspect, fps, bitrate…
* Audio: codec, sample rate, channels, language, bitrate…
* Text: language of subtitle
* Chapters: count of chapters, list of chapters

What format (container) does MediaInfo support?

* Video: MKV, OGM, AVI, DivX, WMV, QuickTime, Real, MPEG-1,MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DVD (VOB)…
(Codecs: DivX, XviD, MSMPEG4, ASP, H.264, AVC…)
* Audio: OGG, MP3, WAV, RA, AC3, DTS, AAC, M4A, AU, AIFF…
* Subtitles: SRT, SSA, ASS, SAMI…

What can I do with it?

* Read many video and audio file formats
* Multiple means to view information (text, sheet, tree, HTML…)
* You can customize theses views
* Exporting possibilities: text, CSV, HTML…
* Graphical Interface, or Command Line, or DLL
* Integration with MS-Windows shell (drag´n´ drop, and Context menu)
* Internationnalization: any language diplay on any version of your Operating System
* Localization capacities (but volonteers needed)

Author – MediaInfo

Supported Operating Systems – Windows, Mac, Linux, CentOS, Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian, OpenSuSe, Mandriva

Version – 0.7.11

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• MediaInfo v0.7.11 [External Server]

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luq Audio/Video

Pidgin (previously called Gaim) is a multi-protocol instant messaging (IM) client for Linux, BSD, MacOS X, and Windows. It is compatible with AIM and ICQ (Oscar protocol), MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, IRC, Jabber, Gadu-Gadu, SILC, GroupWise Messenger, and Zephyr networks.

Pidgin users can log in to multiple accounts on multiple IM networks simultaneously. This means that you can be chatting with friends on AOL Instant Messenger, talking to a friend on Yahoo Messenger, and sitting in an IRC channel all at the same time.

Pidgin supports many features of the various networks, such as file transfer, away messages, typing notification, and MSN window closing notification. It also goes beyond that and provides many unique features. A few popular features are Buddy Pounces, which give the ability to notify you, send a message, play a sound, or run a program when a specific buddy goes away, signs online, or returns from idle; and plugins, consisting of text replacement, a buddy ticker, extended message notification, iconify on away, spell checking, tabbed conversations, and more.

Author – Gaim

Supported Operating Systems – Windows, Mac, CentOS, Fedora

Version – 2.5.4

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• Pidgin v2.5.4 [External Server]

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luq Messaging and Chat

VLC (initially VideoLAN Client) is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg…) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.

• It is a free cross-platform media player
• It supports a large number of multimedia formats, without the need for additional codecs
• It can also be used as a streaming server, with extended features (video on demand, on the fly transcoding, …)

Author – VideoLAN

Operating Systems – Windows, MAC, Linux (BeOS, Syllable, Debian, Ubuntu, Mandriva, Fedora, OpenSUSE, Zaurus, Red Hat, ALT, Arch, Slackware)

Version – 0.9.8a

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• VLC v0.9.8a [External Server]

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luq Audio/Video