The Miro developers have released version 2.0 of their open source Miro Video Converter video transcoding utility, making it the first converter to support the new open WebM / VP8 video format introduced by Google with the WebM Project

If you are a movie junkie like me, chances are you have quite a number of movies on your computer that would be nice watching on your DVD player or home theater system, mobile phone or portable multimedia device. The following three applications should help.

Non-linear video editing tools are great, but they're not always the best tool for the job. This is where a powerful tool like ffmpeg becomes useful. This tutorial by Elliot Isaacson covers the basics of transcoding video, as well as more advanced tricks like creating animations, screen captures, and slow motion effects.

I had an ambitious plan to have a perfect knowledge of ffmpeg as well as possible. I have to admit that getting the most of this program is out of my reach at the moment. That’s why a little disclaimer is necessary; I’m not an expert in video transcoding, but I will show my personal experiences.

MontaVista® Software, Inc., the leader in embedded Linux® commercialization, today announced that MontaVista Mobilinux™ 5.0 has been optimized to develop low-cost, low-power consumer products on the Freescale i.MX31 processor.

If you have the VLC media player (VLC) installed on your computer, you probably already know how versatile this tool is: it can handle virtually any media file, it can play network streams like Internet radio stations, and it can stream media contents across the network.

GNU/Linux has never been short of audio and video players, but they live in a world of multiple codecs, chief culprit amongst them being MP3, AAC, WMA and (Adobe) Flash. I say "culprits" because they are not free and open codecs. They are encumbered by patents; most websites with embedded audio/video use them and most of the people who view them are also using other patented software: Windows.

A six-person startup is readying a modular, open source hardware/software system resembling a set of electronic Legos. Bug Labs claims device developers can build "anything" using "Bug," which comprises an ARM11-powered base and various modular add-ons.

MontaVista has bought out its partners to take full ownership of a Seoul-based embedded Linux venture. MontaVista Software Korea will continue to help MontaVista support Samsung, LG Electronics, ETRI, and other Korean customers using MontaVista's embedded Linux distribution and development tools, MontaVista said.