Open Source Multimedia Software

Tux Paint is a free, award-winning drawing program originally created for children ages 3 to 12, but enjoyed by all! It combines an easy-to-use interface, fun sound effects, and an encouraging cartoon mascot who guides children as they use the program. You're presented with a blank canvas and a variety of drawing tools to help them be creative. Along with paintbrush, shapes and text, Tux Paint includes a "stamp" feature to add pre-drawn or photographic imagery to pictures, and a set of "magic tools" that provide filter effects (like blur, tint and waves) and interesting drawing tools (like train tracks, bubbles and grass). Tux Paint includes a collection of "starter" images, both coloring-book style and photo-realistic, and a large collections of stamps are available as a separate download. Additional content can be added by parents & teachers, or downloaded from 3rd parties. Tux Paint is available for Windows, macOS, Android, Linux, & Haiku operating systems, among others.

Dia Diagram Editor is free Open Source drawing software for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. Dia supports more than 30 different diagram types like flowcharts, network diagrams, database models. More than a thousand readymade objects help to draw professional diagrams. Dia can read and write a number of different raster and vector image formats. Software developers and database specialists can use Dia as a CASE tool to generate code skeletons from their drawings. Dia can be scripted and extended using Python.

Audacity is a free, easy-to-use, multi-track audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux and other operating systems. Audacity is free software, developed by a group of volunteers and distributed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). Programs like Audacity are also called open source software, because their source code is available for anyone to study or use. There are thousands of other free and open source programs, including the Firefox web browser, the LibreOffice or Apache OpenOffice office suites and entire Linux-based operating systems such as Ubuntu

gPhoto is a program and library framework that lets users download pictures from their digital cameras. The libgphoto2 library gives you access to hundreds of models of digital cameras on several platforms. GIT repo and Issue tracker lives at https://github.com/gphoto/ these days.

MuseScore is a free and open-source music notation software designed for composers, arrangers, educators, and musicians of all levels. It allows users to write, edit, and print professional-quality sheet music with no limitations or subscription fees. MuseScore Studio supports a wide range of instruments and ensembles, from solo piano and guitar to full orchestras and choirs. The software is easy to learn while still offering powerful tools for advanced notation and score layout. With support for MIDI input and formats like MusicXML and MIDI, MuseScore integrates smoothly with other music software and workflows. Built by a global open-source community, MuseScore continues to evolve through active development and community contributions. Support MuseScore at http://musescore.org/en/donate

Coppermine is an easily set-up, fast, feature-rich photo gallery script with mySQL database, user management, private galleries, automatic thumbnail creation, ecard feature and a template system for easy customization to match the rest of a site.

A GUI to ease the process of producing a multipage PDF from a scan. gscan2pdf should work on almost any Linux/BSD machine.

Nootka helps understand the basics of music notation: reading and practicing playing musical scores. ​Long story short: the user plays notes (melody) displayed by the app, which then in real time checks if the notes was played correctly. The application is free and open source. It works under Windows, Linux, Mac and Android...

Canorus is a free cross-platform music score editor. It supports an unlimited number and length of staffs, polyphony, a MIDI playback of notes, chord markings, lyrics, import/export filters to formats like MIDI, MusicXML, ABC Music, MusiXTeX and LilyPond

nomacs is a free image viewer for windows, linux, and mac systems, which is licensed under the GNU Public License v3. nomacs is small, fast and able to handle the most common image formats including RAW images. NOTE: nomacs has moved: http://download.nomacs.org

Tano Player is an open-source cross-platform IP TV player. It is combining Qt and Videolan libraries for simple usage. Git: http://github.com/ntadej/tano Issues Tracker: https://github.com/ntadej/tano/issues

Gnome Subtitles is a subtitle editor for the GNOME desktop. It supports the most common text-based subtitle formats, video previewing, timings synchronization and subtitle translation.

Live MP3/OGG/AAC Flash Player for Icecast and Shoutcast. It has some interesting and necessary features like reconnect on network errors to make sure users never get silence and cache management to avoid memory memory consumption. Works with Flash 10.1 and newer.

pspvc (PlayStation Portable Video Converter) FFMPEG front-end to convert video files for SONY PlayStation Portable.

A slide show for JPG, GIF, BMP, PNG, TIF, & WMF files; maximizes images without distortion. Folders can be selected at run time, or in advance with arguments or a .picshow file. File name, date of picture, and comment can optionally be shown with image.

Dellary is an easy to use Image Gallery Script. It uses no Database at all, and supports an upload option and multiple albums.

EcoMod is an OpenGL application for 3D modelling, simulation and visualization of ecosystems. Trees are modelled and used within simulation to render the emerging natural phenomena of spontaneous afforestation process. Multidisciplinary.

Program KEna provides quick and easy 3D modeling with predefined elements. Elements can be parametrized, so we can change them during modeling. With KEna we can model a room with furniture in minutes, even if we have no experience in 3D modeling.

Media Arhiver, storage for your medias, so you never again forget to who you lended or from whom you borrowed some medias, i.e. DVDs. Also good for storing your media so you don't have to dig through your pile of CDs.

Mig is designed to be a simple but flexible program that enables users to manage online photo galleries.

Pencil2D is an animation/drawing application for OSX, Windows and Linux. It lets you create traditional hand-drawn animations (cartoons) using both bitmap and vector graphics.

Piwigo is an online photo gallery and media library software. It comes with powerful features for organizing, sharing and publishing your media files to the web. Organize your content with unlimited albums and sub-albums, tags and other indexing fields. Manage users and permissions, create a private or public web gallery. Customize your gallery with themes. Extend the features with plugins. Manage your digital content easily: photos, videos, audio files and more! Download latest version on piwigo.org or create an account of piwigo.com.

XBMC Media Center is a free cross-platform media player software and entertainment system application framework for Linux, Mac, and Windows. XBMC is capable of playing back and streaming all popular video, audio, and picture formats out-of-the-box.