Links for Friday, January 29, 2010

• CHDK: Unleash the POWER in your Canon PowerShot! – “* Canon Hack Development Kit; Temporary – No permanent changes are made to the camera. Experimental – No warranty. Read about the risks in the FAQ. Free – free to use and modify, released under the GPL.*“
• gPhoto: Freedom From Film – “gPhoto2 is a free, redistributable, ready to use set of digital camera software applications for Unix-like systems, written by a whole team of dedicated volunteers around the world. It supports more than 1100 cameras.“
• Granite Bay Software: Time-lapse Software for Canon Digital Cameras – “In the past time-lapse photography was done with very expensive film cameras, but with digital photography it has become much cheaper and easier. If you have a Canon digital camera, you can create interesting and beautiful time-lapse videos.“
• ffmpeg – “*FFmpeg is a complete, cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video. It includes libavcodec – the leading audio/video codec library. *“
• Audadcity – “Audacity® is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds. It is available for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems.“
• VirtualDub – “VirtualDub is a video capture/processing utility for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows platforms (98/ME/NT4/2000/XP/Vista/7), licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). It lacks the editing power of a general-purpose editor such as Adobe Premiere, but is streamlined for fast linear operations over video. It has batch-processing capabilities for processing large numbers of files and can be extended with third-party video filters. VirtualDub is mainly geared toward processing AVI files, although it can read (not write) MPEG-1 and also handle sets of BMP images.“