Open Source Software for media professionals

Open Source for media professionals, EBU Geneva 1-2 October 2007 organized by EBU training

Open Source software - some with features, like Ardour, which would be remarkable at any price.

• Ardour - audio editing application for Linux and Mac OSX by 64studio
• Uses JACK, Ardour's audio connection engine - replaces a bay of jacks and patch cords found in traditional analog hardware environments
• Routes audio in near real-time
• Works inside Ardour and between apps (e.g. Audacity)
• Native, host-based processing - no special hardware required
• Can be installed with specific Debian distro or on top of an existing Linux or OS X installation (requires real time kernel and JACK)
• Jamin
• Audacity - audio editing application. Simple to use and install, powerful but perfectly suited for simple projects
• Blender - 3D content creation suite
• Campcaster - radio play-out system
• Campsite - CMS & Newsroom system
• Chillout - the open source DRM platform
• Cinelerra - HD and SD non-linear editor + storage. Video edting for Linux. Requires compilation and installation.
  • Cinelerra main code repository
• Distribution platform for DAB/DMB/DRM
• Flumotion - streaming media server (Fluendo company specialized in delivering products and consulting services for Unix and Linux multimedia)
• GStreamer Dirac video codec created by BBC Research and Development
• Ingex - BBC automated tapeless production software
  • http://ingex.sourceforge.net Ingex download
  • http://ffmpeg.mplayerhq.hu
  • http://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/pubs/whp BBC white papers
  • http://sourceforge.net/projects/mjpeg MJPEG tools
  • A simple media logger using aaf 
• MMBase - AV-aware content management system
• PrestoSpace - video-indexing, search & retrieval. Standardized Practices for Audiovisual Contents in Europe
  • PrestoSpace A Web site for archive owners and the public alike, which provides first point-of-call for information on audiovisual storage
• Ruby on Rails - information aggregation platform. Full-stack framework for developing database-backed web applications according to the Model-View-Control pattern
• Tribler - P2P video distribution platform (TU Delft)
• Videolan player and streaming system (VLC)
• VHS 2.0 - Personal Video Recording (Digital Media in Italia)
• Lucas Vroemen, L1 Radio on Open Source http://lucasvroemen.nl/ mostly in Dutch
• lProd Site en français: "Partager tout ce qu’on découvre pour faire de la vidéo à base de 100% logiciels libres ..."

Licences vary - check carefully to make sure it's compatible with your intended use