Multimedia

Few multimedia tricks for your local computer | media center ! ;)

Generic tools

Videos codecs

Here you'll find a bunch of tools that are useful in daily life: VLC, videos codecs, ...

'Survival' multimedia

File edition and diagrams

Here you'll find a bunch of tools that are useful in all situations: Gimp, Dia, ...

'Survival' Graphical

Media center

Kobi (XBMC) setup

ToBeDone: Remote control WinMCE6 on Ubuntu 14.04 + intel NUC

Photos

Photo

Videos

OpenShot

Simple yet powerful little editor.

• Official website: http://www.openshot.org/download/

KDEnLive

Very good tool to create custom videos.

More information on:

• Official website: https://kdenlive.org/
• Ubuntu FR setup page: https://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/kdenlive

# Application setup
sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:kdenlive/kdenlive-stable 
sudo apt update 
sudo apt install -y kdenlive kde-runtime
sudo apt-get install -f
# more codecs
sudo apt-get install libmlt++3 libmlt-data libmlt6

Handbrake

A very useful tool to crop and convert | compress your videos: handbrake (https://handbrake.fr/downloads.php)

Linux installation

add-apt-repository ppa:stebbins/handbrake-releases
apt-get update
apt-get install -y handbrake-gtk handbrake-cli

Scanner

apt-get install simple-scan xsane