Free video software

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 50. Chapters: MPlayer, VLC media player, Media Player Classic, XBMC, Boxee, XBMC4Xbox, MediaPortal, AviSynth, PiTiVi, LiVES, Avidemux, X264, Cinelerra, Seamless3d, MythTV, VirtualDub, OpenShot Video Editor, Xine, LinuxMCE, Kino, FreeJ, CinePaint, SMPlayer, Kdenlive, Xbox Media Player, Media Player Classic Home Cinema, Coherence, VirtualDubMod, HwdVideoShare, Goalbit, VideoLan VideoConference, RecordMyDesktop, UIX, Thoggen, XVidCap, CineFX, Cortado, DVArchive, Ogle DVD Player, Video4Linux, ManyCam, Veejay, YATTA, Video Disk Recorder, Cankiri, Debugmode Wax. Excerpt: XBMC Media Center (formerly Xbox Media Center) is a free and open source cross-platform digital media hub and HTPC (Home theater PC) software with a 10-foot user interface designed to be a media player for the living-room TV. Its graphical user interface (GUI) allows the user to easily manage video, photos, podcasts, and music from a computer, optical disc, local network, and the internet using a remote control. The XBMC project is managed by the non-profit technology consortium XBMC Foundation. It is a popular alternative to Microsoft's Windows Media Center and Apple's Front Row for HTPC (Home Theater PC) use. Similar to competing software like MediaPortal and MythTV, it has a skinnable as well as user-configurable interface and plugin support. The latest stable release of XBMC also have an integrated digital distribution platform 'app store' / 'app market' called "Addons Manager" that has a growing list of community driven addon plugins for online content like YouTube, Hulu, Netflix, Grooveshark, Pandora Radio, as well and themes (skins) and more available from a common official repository, while still enabling third-party developers to also host their own unofficial repositories for addon plugins that any user can choose to add themselves if they like. XBMC was originally created as a media center application for the first-generation Xbox game console but is now, since 2010, officially available as a native application for iOS (iDevices (must be jailbroken)), Linux, Mac OS X (Snow Leopard, Leopard, Tiger, Apple TV), and Microsoft Windows operating systems, running on most common processor architectures. Also available is a bootable Live CD and Live USB standalone version referred to as "XBMC Live" which is made for easy setup on bare-metal installations and to be used for interactive demonstrations. In addition, as a leader in niche market of media center software, the source code from XBMC is used as an application framework and technological convergence platfor