This folder contains free/libre open source software packages for TheArtCollider
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Most of these packages are available elswhere and have only been mirrored here.
More information is available at http://wiki.theartcollider.org/tools/

FlowMixer:     Vision Mixing tool based on http://freej.dyne.org/
               The Flowmixer is customized branched version.
               OSX 10.5, 10.6 PPC, i386 and x86_64

oggZcap:       Screen-capture utility. Grab a part of your Desktop and 
               send it to an icecast2 server.
               OSX 10.5, 10.6 PPC and i386

oggZmax:       ogg/Theora/Vorbis externals for MaxMSP/Jitter
               OSX 10.5, 10.6 PPC and i386

FFFFDec:       FreeFrame plugin to decode video with FFmpeg
               (experimental alpha version OSX PPC and i386 binary)

Pd-extended:   graphical programming language: http://puredata.info/

readanysf:     pure-data external to gavl/ffmpeg supports ANY soundfile/stream.
               http://aug.ment.org/readanysf/
               Source-code and OSX 10.4, 10.5, 10.6 i386.

ffmpeg2theora: commandline utility to encode/transcode video

oggfwd:        commandline tools to stream to an icecast server

vlc:           The videolan framework: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
               versatile tool: player, encoder, streamer.. 

tac-pdp-osx.pd:example pure-data patch based on giss.tv's streamer

icecast2:      patched version of http://icecast.org streaming server.
               differences to upstream include more frequent yellow-pages
               announcements and connection information publishing.

vizualizer:    application that aggregates images from the internet according
               to keyword input. gimscr.sh is a shell-script doing the same.

qiph:          create A/V streams from files on disk.
               front-end to ffmpeg2theora and oggfwd (included in quiph)

movemovie:     somewhat unrelated application to organize movie collections.