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SMPlayer – a complete graphical environment for the media player MPlayer, which provides the basic features like MPlayer (video, DVD and VCD), and the more advanced features like support for filters for MPlayer, Subtitle auto search, and other properties characteristic of a graphical environment.

What’s new in version 0.8.0:

• added to the editor toolbar, it is now possible to choose which buttons and controls will be visible on toolbars;
• new video filters: banding (gradfun), blur and sharpness;

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While Kdenlive like so many independent projects will be developed as a hobby, now is one of the developers are paid to work for two months undisturbed in the video editor. Donations are sought for it now.

Kdenlive is a video editor with editing functions, based on the MLT video framework. The program is integrated in KDE and boasts many features that have been around now for the professional interest in them. Although Kdenlive was reputed to be quite unstable, but were with the versions 0.8.2 and 0.8.2.1 in late 2011 many of the problems fixed. Seth Kenlon, whose company uses the editor professionally, Kdenlive runs Linux better, more reliable and far less expensive than proprietary applications on Mac OS X.
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HandBrake – cross-platform video converter from DVD, Blu-ray or other formats supported libav, distributed under the GPL. HandBrake supports codecs H.264, MPEG-4, MPEG-2, Theora, AAC, MP3, FLAC, AC3 and containers MKV and MP4.

Since the last release was over a year now and what changes were made to the program:

Codecs

Video

• Updated library libx264 (to revision 2146);
• Added MPEG-2 codec (from the libavcodec);
• Added support for additional options for the codec from the libavcodec (in the format option1 = value1: option2 = value2);

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Recently, a new version of the universal multimedia combine VLC 2.0.0, codenamed «Twoflower».

The updated player appeared faster decoding on multi-core systems on the GPU and mobile devices. Format is now supported even more, among them professional codecs, codec with support for high-resolution 10-bit color per channel. There was a huge work, and a change of major version the player is justified.

VLC 2.0.0 contains a new rendering pipeline video, subtitles and better support for new video filters. Completely redesigned interfaces for Mac and the Web. Version 2.0.0 fixes hundreds of bugs, it contains more than 7000 commits from 160 independent developers.
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After two years of silence in light of a new version of the draft with the number of freeglut 2.8.0. freeglut is a completely open alternative OpenGL Utility Toolkit (GLUT) and is used in many free software projects due to ease of use and portability. The library allows you to create a window with the presence of OpenGL-elements and manage them with support for input devices (keyboard, mouse, joystick), so most popular use freeglut in gaming applications.
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The company released the first public BrainDistrict commercial version of the graphical editor PaintSupreme and preparing a new version of video editor MainActor, from the development of which in 2007 abandoned its predecessor – the company MainConcept.

Currently PaintSupreme can be classified as light raster graphics editor of a series of “almost like Paint.NET, not only Paint.NET». However, developers are present, though sober, but still a little Napoleonic plans to climb into a niche software for professional use.
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OpenSource program that allows you to slow down smoothly and accelerate the footage by converting the changed pixels and the subsequent generation of additional personnel.Optionally, you can add a blur effect in an accelerated motion.
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The release of a free three-dimensional graphics editor for the number 2.61. Although the version number changed only one, very minor, a figure that many innovations that have a proprietary analog of this would have been the reason for the change of two or three major releases. These innovations are the result of the introduction to the main code branch Tomato, developed within the framework of GSoC 2011. Actually, what’s new:

• A completely new rendering engine Cycles (in use of Russian-speaking community Blender – Susleg) based on the nodes. Despite the fact that he is at an early stage of development, its capabilities already exceed those of the current engine (still available for use both). Among these features full global illumination, rendering the preview in real-time 3D-rendering window and the GPU. Example output rendering can be seen here .

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FFmpeg – a set of free libraries, open source, which allow you to record, convert and transmit digital audio and video recordings in various formats. It includes libavcodec – the library of encoding and decoding audio and video and libavformat – Library multiplexing and demultiplexing in mediakonteyner.

Changes:

• native decoder dirac
• support for reading files within MPO
• video-source “Mandelbrot fractal”
• Forward to mmsh

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VideoLAN organization announced the first official release of the library and libbluray libaacs.

AACS is a way to encrypt the content in most Blu Ray discs license, using the private key. As conceived by the creators of technology, they should only be accessible to the creators of hardware and software players, as well as the creators of such discs.
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