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YouTube-DL GUI 0.4 Ships With New User Interface, More [PPA]

| Date: August 11, 2017 | View Comments | Tags: download, music, video, youtube, youtube-dl

After two years since the previous version, a new YouTube-DL GUI (YouTube-DLG) version was made available for download recently. The new 0.4 version ships with a a new user interface, easier format and save path selection and more.


YouTube-DL GUI is, like its name suggests, a graphical user interface for the powerful command line tool youtube-dl, available for Linux and Windows. In case you're not familiar with youtube-dl, this is a popular tool that allows downloading videos from YouTube and around 1000 other websites.

Shotcut Video Editor Available As A Snap Package [Quick Update]

| Date: February 21, 2017 | View Comments | Tags: linux, ubuntu, video, video editor

Shotcut video editor is available as a snap (64bit only!), making it easier to install in multiple Linux distributions, including Ubuntu, Fedora, and so on.


Shotcut is a free, open source Qt5 video editor developed on the MLT Multimedia Framework (it's developed by the same author as MLT), available for Linux, Windows and Mac. Under the hood, Shotcut uses FFmpeg, so it supports many audio, video and image formats, along with screen, webcam and audio capture.

Penguin Subtitle Player 1.0 Released With SSA/ASS Subtitles Support [Quick Update]

| Date: February 14, 2017 | View Comments | Tags: linux, subtitles, ubuntu, video

Penguin Subtitle Player is an open source, cross-platform, standalone subtitle player that can display subtitles on top of any window.



Penguin Subtitle Player is especially useful for online video streaming websites that don't support subtitles or don't allow custom subtitles. You can also use Penguin Subtitle Player to display subtitles in a custom position, like on the black top/bottom bands, or to display multiple subtitles in the same time.

LosslessCut Is An Easy To Use Video Cutter (Cross-Platform)

| Date: February 10, 2017 | View Comments | Tags: linux, macosx, ubuntu, video, video editor, windows

If you find video editors to be confusing and all you need is to just cut a portion of a video, you can try LosslessCut, an application available for Linux, Windows and Mac.


LosslessCut was especially created to make it easy to quickly extract parts of video files from a video camera, GoPro, drone, and so on, without losing video quality.

Display Keystrokes In Your Screencasts With `Screenkey` (Fork)

| Date: November 13, 2015 | View Comments | Tags: linux, screencast, screenkey, ubuntu, video

Screenkey is a tool which displays your keystrokes on the screen, useful for screencasts (especially for how-to videos).


The original Screenkey was abandoned but thanks to Yuri D'Elia, the application lives on, through a fork that's an almost complete rewrite of screenkey 0.2 (the last version released by the original developer), which includes quite a few improvements and new features, such as:

Play Subtitles On Top Of Any Video With Penguin Subtitle Player

| Date: August 25, 2015 | View Comments | Tags: linux, subtitles, ubuntu, video

Penguin Subtitle Player is a simple open source Qt5 subtitle player which can be used to display subtitles on top of online video streaming websites that don't support subtitles or don't allow using custom subtitles

You can also use Penguin Subtitle Player to display subtitles on custom positions (like on the black bottom/top bands), or to display multiple subtitles in the same time (since the app can be launched multiple times), for video players or video streaming websites that don't support this by default.


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