SuperVGA/VESA programmer's notes.

comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.video FAQ, Part 1/4

comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.video Chipsets List

Design Issues for Interactive Television Systems ( Borko Furht, Deven Kalra, Frederick L. Kitson, Arturo A. Rodriguez, William E. Wall ; IEEE Computer Magazine 1995-05)

Converting DVI to Other Formats? [2002/05/03]

Transflective Laptop Screens? [2002/04/22]

Monitors for People with Poor Eyesight? [2002/03/30]

Multiple Monitors for Linux Laptops? [2002/03/24]

Flickering Monitors? [2002/03/21]

Digitizing VGA? [2002/03/11]

Making LCD Screens Readable in Full Sunlight? [2002/02/28]

DVD-R/W In Unix? [2002/01/07]

To HDTV or Not to HDTV? [2001/12/28]

Multi-Platform Video Codec Seeks New Home [2001/12/14]

LED Replacement for LCD projector Bulbs [2001/12/09]

Low-Profile Video Cards? [2001/12/05]

Large-Scale Video Archiving? [2001/10/27]

What Laptop Has the Best Video? [2001/10/18]

Which DVD-Recordable Drives? [2001/09/12]

Buying a PVR that Doesn't Require a Subscription? [2001/06/14]

In Search of Knowledge on Tandberg ErgoStations? [2001/06/11]

LCD Display Questions - Longevity and Monochrome? [2001/06/06]

When Does Video Surveillance Go Too Far? [2001/06/04]

In-Wall Touchscreens for the Home? [2001/04/19]

Bidirectional Video & Data Transmission from an Airplane? [2001/04/14]

Extending LCD Display Life? [2001/04/03]

Technical Limitations to Wearable Eyeglass Monitors? [2001/03/30]

Low Profile PC's with High-End Video Cards? [ 2000/09/27]

Apple Colorsync - G3/G4 Scan Rate Problem? [ 2000/09/02]

Loading NVidia XFree 4.01 Modules When Booting? [ 2000/08/25]

What is 'VHS Quality'? [ 2000/08/16]

Where Did 1280x1024 Come From? [ 2000/08/03]

Laptop Screens-HPA Vs. TFT, DSTN, et al [ 2000/07/25]

Can You Reuse A Laptop's LCD? [ 2000/07/10]

Projection TV's And Game Consoles? [ 2000/04/08]

Are There Linux DVD Players on the Market? [ 2000/04/03]

Recommendations and Reviews for > 20" Monitors? [ 2000/04/02]

Why Hasn't Apple Released Quicktime For UNIX? [ 2000/03/31]

Closed Captioning-Open Source Style? [ 2000/03/25]

What's the Best "All In One" Video Card? [ 2000/03/24]

Cross Platform Gfx Card for X11? [ 2000/01/22]

Configuring Monitors in X [ 1999/12/18]

Are all LCD Monitors Compatible with Linux? [ 1999/12/16]

What Video Card best Supports Xfree86-4.0 [ 1999/12/16]

Graphic Cards w/ Video Input and OpenGL Support [ 1999/11/25]

Old Fixed-Sync Monitors under Linux? [ 1999/11/12]

RealPlayer G2 for Alpha Expired! Now, What? [ 1999/10/17]

Problems when Closing XFree86 Using a S3Virge/Gx [ 1999/10/16]

Avermedia98 and Linux? [ 1999/09/18]

Using Old Laptops as Pass-Thru Displays? [ 1999/08/29]

Video Production on Linux? [ 1999/08/20]

The PC and ahe Video Entertainment Center? [ 1999/08/09]

Video-In Solutions for Linux? [ 1999/07/23]

HDTV capable Video Cards? [ 1999/07/18]

Connecting VGA-cards to TV? [ 1999/07/11]

Ultimate 2D Graphics Card? [ 1999/07/08]

Linux and SVHS Outputs [ 1999/06/14]

LED displays with Linux? [ 1999/05/12]

Problems w/ LT Rage Pro and XFree86 on Red Hat 5.2 [ 1999/03/16]

Linux on Mobos w/ Integrated Sound & Video. [ 1999/03/12]

BeOS, Win95 and Dual Video Cards [ 1999/03/07]

Audio/Video Networking Solutions for Linux? [ 1999/02/15]

Can the QuickCam work using the video4linux Interface? [ 1999/02/03]

What's the Best AGP 3D Card for Linux (and X)? [ 1998/11/29]

Linux and TV Tuner Cards [ 1998/11/21]

Multiple Monitor Fun [ 1998/11/03]

Flat Screens and Linux [ 1998/10/18]

What Graphic Card for 2D? [ 1998/07/14]

Trouble with Glide [ 1998/06/24]

LCD Projectors [ 1998/06/04]

Changes in Latitude - Problems with X on Dell Latitude [ 1998/05/25]

Which video adapter is installed? []

How do I switch to 43- or 50-line mode? []

Questions and Answers

Video::Capture::V4l - Video::Capture::V4l - Perl interface to the Video4linux framegrabber interface. Features include video frame grabbing, indexing and realtime compression, VBI access (videotext, EPG, intercast, nbcmp3) and more... {(L)GPL}

xine_d5d_plugin-0.1.1 - A dvd input plugin for xine with menu support

xine_dvdnav_plugin-0.9.8.b_1 - A dvd input plugin for xine

mmsclient-0.0.3 - Download Microsoft Media streams

gvid-0.2_1 - Gnome applet to change video resolution

transcode-0.6.0.4 - A text-console utility for video stream processing

xmps-0.2.0 - X MPEG Player System - a media player with a very nice GUI

xvid-0.20020404 - An opensource MPEG-4 codec, based on OpenDivx

sdl_ldbad-1.0 - A SDL Linux Developer's BandAiD

dvdrip-0.39.05_1 - This is dvd::rip, a Perl Gtk+ based dvd-ripper

sdl-1.2.4 - Cross-platform multi-media development API (developm. vers.)

mtv-1.2.5 - High-performance MPEG video player (shareware)

mpeg-1.2.2 - PVRG's MPEG video stream encoder

enjoympeg-0.4.1 - An MPEG-1 video player

vcdimager-0.7.12 - GNU VCDImager/VCDRip -- The GNU VideoCD Image Maker/Ripping Tool

scr2txt-1.1 - Converts the output of "vidcontrol -p" to text

mpgtx-1.1.1 - A command line MPEG audio/video/system file toolbox

dvdtape-1.6 - Create DVD master filesystems on DLT media

mgapdesk-1.0.5 - Matrox Powerdesk for *nix

OQTEncoder-0.1 - A simple encoder using OpenQuicktime (TM)

OQTPlayer-0.5 - A very very small, not functionnal, video OpenQuicktime (TM) player

smpeg-xmms-0.3.4 - A mpeg video plugin for XMMS

fxtv-1.03 - X-based TV Display and Capture Application (for use with bt848 driver)

tvguide-1.6.1 - Perl script to pretty-print TV Guide listings from www.tvguide.com

vbidecode-1.1.3 - Get Videotext/Teletext (.vtx) and other VBI data from TV channels

linplasma-1.0 - Sinus plasma, an SVGAlib demo

vlc-0.2.92 - An X11 MPEG2 client/server solution

divx4linux-0.20011010.4.02 - Linux binary release of DivX 4 (TM) Codec

divx4linux-5.0.20020418 - Linux binary release of DivX (TM) Codec

divxcalc-0.2 - DivX Calculator

linux-sdl-1.2.2.1 - Cross-platform multi-media development API (linux version)

ogle-0.8.2_1 - Open DVD player that supports DVD menus

ffmpeg-0.4.5_1 - Hyper fast realtime audio/video encoder/converter, streaming server

libdivxencore-devel-0.4.0.50 - OpenDivX encoding engine from Project Mayo

libdv-0.9_1 - Quasar DV codec (libdv): software codec for DV video encoding format

libmovtar-0.1.2 - Supports reading/writing of MJPEG video in YUV 4:2:2 JPEG

mplayer-0.60.1_2 - High performance media player that supports many formats

svg2swf-0.1.3 - Convert an SVG file into a Macromedia Flash (swf) file

xine_d4d_plugin-0.3.0 - A dvd input plugin for xine

ogle-gui-0.8.2_3 - An add-on graphical user interface for Ogle

rebler-1.0 - A program to convert mpeg2 and ac3 into DivX with ac3 audio

recmpeg-1.0.4 - A simple video encoder

Graphics,Sounds & Multimedia for Linux CD

DVD MovieFactory

PowerDVD XP 4.0 Standard

Magix Music & Video Maker Deluxe G6

PowerDVD XP 4.0 Deluxe

Honestech Mpeg Encoder 3.0

Applications and Utilities

libmpeg2-0.2.1 - A free library for decoding mpeg-2 and mpeg-1 video streams

libdivxdecore-0.4.7 - OpenDivX decoding engine from Project Mayo

libdivxdecore-devel-0.4.0.50_1 - OpenDivX decoding engine from Project Mayo (development version)

smpeg-0.4.4 - A free MPEG1 video player library with sound support

libxine-0.9.8_3 - Libraries for xine UNIX video player

libfame-0.8.9_1 - A video encoding library

openquicktime-1.0 - Portable library for handling Apple's QuickTime(TM) files

p5-ming-0.2a - Perl5 module for Ming which allows you to create Flash 4/5 movies

py22-ming-0.2a - Python module for Ming which allows you to create Flash 4/5 movies

linux_glide-2.4 - Linux library implementing the GLIDE interface to 3dfx video cards

Bordcolr.C - Set border color {oss,msdos}

Pclrscrn.How - How to clear a PC screen {oss}

Bordcolr.C - Set border color {oss}

Hires.Asm - Switch to 43/50 line mode on EGA/VGA {oss,msdos}

rast - Sun rasterfile I/O library {oss}

Libraries and Functions

(The following links to subjects at this site retain your personalized selections.)

X Drivers - Low level drivers for X cards and protocols

Video and Multimedia - (including animations, movies, animated GIFs)

Image Capture - Capturing video images, scanners, frame grabbers, Digital Camera downloaders, etc.

Up to Hardware Access - Gateway topic to hardware and real-time related processing routines.

freshmeat.net : Topic : Multimedia : Video : Conversion

freshmeat.net : Topic : Multimedia : Video : Capture

freshmeat.net : Topic : Multimedia : Video : Non-Linear Editor

freshmeat.net : Topic : Multimedia : Video : Display

freshmeat.net : Topic : Multimedia : Video

Computers : Artificial Intelligence : Vision :

Yahoo! Computers and Internet:Hardware:Components:Video Cards

(Metalab at UNC) /pub/linux/apps/graphics/hacks/svgalib/ - eye candy for SVGAlib screens

(Metalab at UNC) /pub/linux/apps/video/ - support for video