Beware VLC Media Player is getting rebundled by Malware vendors.

From Slashdot: Open Source Software Hijacked To Push Malware

"VLC Media Player is a popular, useful, and free-as-in-beer piece of software. Unfortunately, its open source nature makes it easier for people with bad intentions to repackage it in nefarious ways. Not only do some of these folks claim that they're the originator of the software (a violation of trademark law and the license), but they often bundle it up with crapware and malware, which is a real dilemma for open source developers who play by the rules."

It's a good article.

Open Source VLC Media Player Coming To iPad

From Slashdot:
The people behind VLC, quite probably the most useful media player available right now, have submitted an iPod version to the Apple software police. VLC — which is rightfully famous for having a go at playing just about any kind of audio or video file you care to throw at it — should appear some time next week, if it makes it through the often unfathomable approval process implemented by Apple. The Open Source Video Lan Client has been tweaked to run on the iPod by software developer Applidium

VLC Team Announces Video Editor In the Works

I am looking forward to this.  Hope the use the SDL Library, then cross ports should be easy. 

From Slashdot: VLC Team Announces Video Editor In the Works on Wednesday December 23, @04:11PM

"Despite news that VLC might not have anyone to work on the Mac release, Lifehacker brings word of a video editor that the VLC team is working on dubbed VideoLAN Media Creator. It hasn't been released yet (git clone git://github.com/VLMC/vlmc.git) but a pre-release is due out soon."

Lack of Manpower May Kill VLC For Mac

From SlashDot:

Lack of Manpower May Kill VLC For Mac

"The Video Lan dev team has recently come forward with a notice that the number of active developers for the project's MacOS X releases has dropped to zero, prompting a halt in the release schedule. There is now a disturbing possibility that support for Mac will be dropped as of 1.1.0. As the most versatile and user-friendly solution for bridging the video compatibility gap between OS X and windows, this will be a terrible loss for the mac community. There is still hope, however, if the right volunteers come forward."

Linux video applications

This isn't really much of an article as a link collection of Linux video apps worth checking out.

This isn't for CCTV or DVR use as much as consumer video.

• xine - started as a simple mpeg-2 audio and video decoder, but it since became a full-featured DVD and video media player.
• VLC media player / VideoLAN: a cross-platform video player and streaming solution. Video streaming over an ethernet network, and excellent standalone player.
• MPlayer - another good player, it is also very robust against damaged streams.
• movietime - still quite young, but it looks very promising !
• ffmpeg - a nice audio/video encoder and transcoder. ffmpeg.org
• Ogle - a good DVD player with menu support.
• TCVP - video and music player for unix.
• a52decX - a graphical interface for macintosh OS X.
• bd4go - another graphical interface for macintosh OS X.
• drip - a DVD to DIVX transcoder.
• OMS
• XMPS
• GStreamer - a framework for streaming media (A real beast)
  
• mpeglib - a video decoding library
• Avidemux
• ELDER
• ffdshow
• GordianKnot
• Handbrake: a multi-platform, multithreaded DVD to MPEG-4 ripper/converter.
• LiVES
• MeGUI
• MEncoder
• pspVideo9
• RealAnime
• StaxRip
• TCVP