This series of articles will recommend some open source tools and applications for daily use scenarios such as office, design, entertainment, and education, hoping to be helpful to everyone. There are too many excellent ones, and the space is limited, only a few are listed, and more search tools that can use OSC can be found. If you like, please follow, favorite, comment, and reward~~
Part 1: Open source tools and applications suitable for daily use (office articles)
Part 2: Open source tools and applications suitable for daily use (design)
Part 3: Entertainment
- film and television
- music
- game
1. Film and television
1、VLC Media Player
VLC Media Player is a well-known open source video player with powerful functions. It can play files from networks, cameras, disks, and optical drives. It supports MPEG 1/2/4, H264, VC-1, DivX, WMV, Vorbis, Decoding of AC3, AAC and other formats. And no ads, no tracking of user behavior.
VLC Media Player is suitable for Windows, Linux, OS X, Android, iOS, Windows Phone and other platforms, and can be set to Chinese. It is reported that the newly released 3.0 preview version also supports 360-degree video, allowing viewing of panoramic photos.
Open Source License: GPLv2
2、MPlayer
MPlayer is also a well-known open source video player that supports decoding of MPEG / VOB, AVI, Ogg / OGM, VIVO, ASF / WMA / WMV, QT / MOV / MP4, RealMedia, Matroska, PVA files and other formats. Supports display of MPEG decoder boards via some hardware, such as Siemens DVB, DXR2 and DXR3 / Hollywood+.
The official version of MPlayer has no Chinese option and is suitable for Windows, Linux, OS X and other platforms.
Open Source License: GPLv2
3、SMPlayer
SMPlayer is a graphical user interface (GUI) based on MPlayer that does not require any external codecs and is capable of playing almost all known video and audio formats. In addition to providing the most common and useful options of MPlayer, SMPlayer also adds some other interesting features, such as downloading subtitles, remembering settings for playing files, and more.
SMPlayer is available for Windows and Linux platforms and offers more than 30 languages, including Chinese.
Open Source License: GPL
4、MPC-HC
The full name of MPC-HC is Media Player Classic Home Cinema, which is a very lightweight open source media player on the Windows platform. It supports playback of all common video and audio file formats.
MPC-HC has no ads, powerful customizable features, and customizable toolbar.
Open Source License: GPLv3
5、SPlayer
SPlayer (shooter video player) is an open source player project created and maintained by shooter.com. Using DirectX hardware acceleration technology, it supports H.264, x264, Divx, Xvid, RMVB, PMP, BIK, SCM and other multi-format decoding without additional decoding packages.
SPlayer supports fully automatic network subtitle matching and dual subtitle display. Applicable to Windows and Mac OSX platforms, there are green version, trial version, paid version, source code and other forms.
Open Source License: GPL
6、Miro
Miro is an open source video and music player that includes a media player, video library, content wizard, video search engine, integrated podcast and BitTorrent client. It remembers where you stopped watching the video and will start playing it when you play it again.
Miro supports playback of all common video and audio file formats, and can also convert videos to mp4/h264 for playback on mobile phones. Applicable to Windows, Linux, OS X and other platforms.
Open Source License: GPL
7、MPV
MPV is a video player based on MPlayer/mplayer2 that supports various video file formats, audio and video codecs. It features OpenGL-based video output with features such as high-quality algorithmic video scaling, color management, frame timing, interpolation, and more.
MPV's option parser has been improved in several places, and many option names and semantics have been reworked to look more intuitive. Applicable to Windows, Linux, OS X and other platforms.
Open Source License: GPLv2
8、OSMC
OSMC is different from the previous software. It is an open source media center system based on Linux and Kodi. It can be used for Raspberry Pi, VERO, Apple TV smart TV platforms and Windows, Linux, OSX desktop systems.
The design of OSMC is relatively simple and easy to use, and supports all mainstream video formats to play.
Open Source License: GPL
2. Music
1、DeaDBeeF
DeaDBeeF can be regarded as a relatively old music player on Linux, and it has been continuously updated. Support mp3, ogg vorbis, flac, ape, wv / iso.wv, wav, m4a, cd and other multi-format audio playback, display album cover, and control playback from the command line.
DeaDBeeF has many plugins such as global hotkeys, last.fm scrobbler, converters and more. In addition to the Linux platform, Mac OS X can also be used at present, but the official said that it has not been fully developed, and it is not ruled out that there are bugs. Windows is not supported.
Open Source License: GPL
2. KJ Music
KJ Music is a powerful music player. It has a gorgeous interface, simple operation, complete functions, and only supports the use of Android mobile phones. It was developed by the Chinese, unfortunately the author has not updated it for a long time.
KJ Music uses Baidu's head music download interface, Douban FM music radio interface, and Baidu image search interface to provide music download, music list, theme radio, song search and other functions. Supports playback of local music on mobile phones, synchronous download of lyrics, browsing of songs and pictures, etc.
Open Source License: GPLv2
3、Wait
Espera is a Metro-style music player under Windows with a simple design. Its unique feature is that it integrates YouTube and SoundCloud, which can seamlessly add the above music to your playlist. However, for domestic "walled" users, it may be more troublesome to turn it out, and it can only be used to play local songs.
Espera has a special feature called party mode, when it is turned on, guests will not be able to change the volume of the music or pause the music, you can remotely control the music playback from the Android device through the remote control app that comes with Espera.
Open Source License: MIT
4 、 Foobnix
Foobnix is a music player that is biased towards network applications. In addition to supporting online music social networking sites such as Last.fm, it can also obtain a large number of online music through search (but almost no Chinese music can be searched, which is suitable for playing local music and listening to music. English songs). You can play it online directly or download it for local playback.
Foobnix can display album art, lyrics and artist photos, supports CUE, and offers almost all common formats. Available for Linux and Windows platforms.
Open Source License: GPLv3
5、Clementine
Clementine is a modern music player and media library manager, inspired by Amarok 1.4 , to develop an easy-to-use interface to quickly search and play music.
Clementine autocompletes cover art via Last.fm and Amazon, and natively supports desktop alerts for Linux (libnotify) and Mac OS X (Growl). Available on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux platforms.
Open Source License: GPLv3
3. Games
1、FreeCol
FreeCol is an open source version of Colonization, similar to the strategy game Civilization, which requires players to constantly conquer new territories and eventually establish an independent country.
FreeCol is a turn-based strategy game. At the beginning of the game, you only have a few colonies, and you can start a war only after you build a colony, buy supplies, etc. Available for Windows and Mac OS X platforms.
Open Source License: GPL
2、Speed Dreams
Speed Dreams is a cross-platform open source racing game with 3D graphics, providing a wealth of racing and track types. Designed to make gamers more exciting with new features, cars, tracks and AI opponents, along with ever-improving visual and physical realism.
Speed Dreams currently applicable platforms include Linux (x86, x86_64) and Windows 32-bit systems. Officials say the port for Mac OS X is 95% complete, with a specific release date to be determined.
Open Source License: GPL
3、Warzone 2100
Warzone 2100 (Battlefield 2100/Warzone 2100) is a real-time strategy game in a futuristic setting. The first unit combination concept, various vehicles can be designed from component integration. The game offers expedition, multiplayer and single player modes with over 400 different skills, combined with a unit design system that allows for a wide variety of tactics.
Warzone 2100 was originally developed as a commercial game. It was open sourced in 2004 and is still being updated. The latest version was released in July this year. Available on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux platforms.
Open Source License: GPL
4、OpenEmu
OpenEmu is a game emulator for the OSX platform that utilizes OS X technologies (such as Cocoa, Core Animation, and Quartz) and third-party libraries (such as Sparkle) for automatic updates. It is based on a modular architecture that allows game engine plugins, which means that many different emulation engines and backends can be supported, while retaining the familiar OS X native frontend.
The appearance design of OpenEmu emulator is somewhat like iTunes, you can play games by downloading ROM, and also support adding gamepads.
Open Source License: Unknown
5、0 AD
0 AD is a free-to-play cross-platform game developed by WIldfire Games, similar to Microsoft's Age of Empires, a real-time strategy game. In the game, users can build civilizations and define the enemies they oppose. The game is set between 500 BC and 500 AD and includes six unique civilizations and several multi-role modes.
0 AD is available on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux platforms.
Open Source License: GPL
6、Xonotic
Xonotic is a remastered and upgraded version of the classic first-person shooter Nexuiz , offering a wide variety of weapons, as well as arena-style combat scenarios that combine intuition with the judgment of face-to-face action to enhance the thrill.
Xonotic is available on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux platforms.
Open Source License: GPLv2
7、Teeworlds
Teeworlds is a free online multiplayer shooting game that supports almost all major operating systems, supports up to 16 people to play at the same time, and can design maps by yourself.
Teeworlds uses a variety of game settings in FPS style, including keys and movement and weapons and a physics engine, initially equipped with mallet, zipline. There are other weapon pickups on the map. Support deathmatch, team deathmatch, capture the flag.
Open Source License: BSD
8 、 Freedroid
Freedroid is a free role-playing game, similar to Diablo, with a real-time combat system, melee and ranged weapons to choose from. You can use more than 50 different types of items, and the dialogue system provides a story background and role-playing plot.
One of the innovations of Freedroid is that it can control enemy robots to change their behavior and improve their abilities. The entire game will probably take about 10 hours to complete, and of course, it's still actively being updated.
Open Source License: GPLv2
to be continued.