VDPAU is the Video Decode and Presentation API for UNIX. It provides an interface to video decode acceleration and presentation hardware present in modern GPUs.

libaacs is a library which implements the Advanced Access Content System specification.

libdvbpsi is a simple library designed for decoding and generation of MPEG TS and DVB PSI tables according to standards ISO/IEC 13818s and ITU-T H.222.0.

Motion is a program that monitors the video signal from one or more cameras and is able to detect if a significant part of the picture has changed. Or in other words, it can detect motion.

GTK+ UVC Viewer (guvcview) is a graphical application to control a webcam accessible with Video4Linux (V4L2) and to capture videos and images. It provides control over precise settings of the webcam such as exposure, brightness, contrast, and frame rate.

Youtube-viewer searches and plays YouTube videos in a native player. It comes with various search options; it can search for videos, playlists and/or channels. The videos are streamed directly in a selected video player at the best resolution (customizable) and with closed-captions (if available). Both command-line and GTK2 interface are available.

wf-recorder is a utility program for screen recording of wlroots-based compositors. More specifically, those that support wlr-screencopy-v1 and xdg-output.

libx264 is an advanced encoding library for creating H.264 (MPEG-4 AVC) video streams.

Wlstream is a screen capture tool for recording audio and video from a Wayland session.

This package shows the keys that the user presses on the screen.

Presumably, that's because you are presenting the screen to someone else that should see the keys.

This package works in Xorg and Wayland since it directly reads the keys from the evdev device via libinput.

Users in group ``wheel'' can skip password authentication.

Xvid is an MPEG-4 Part 2 Advanced Simple Profile (ASP) video codec library. It uses ASP features such as b-frames, global and quarter pixel motion compensation, lumi masking, trellis quantization, and H.263, MPEG and custom quantization matrices.

Theorafile is a library for quickly and easily decoding Ogg Theora videos. Theorafile was written to be used for FNA's VideoPlayer.

SVT-AV1 is an AV1 codec implementation. The encoder is a work-in-progress, aiming to support video-on-demand and live streaming applications with high performance requirements. It mainly targets Intel-compatible CPUs (x86), but has limited support for other architectures.

This program normalizes media files to a certain loudness level using the EBU R128 loudness normalization procedure. It can also perform RMS-based normalization (where the mean is lifted or attenuated), or peak normalization to a certain target level. Batch processing of several input files is possible, including video files.

Mjpeg tools is a suite of programs which support video capture, editing, playback, and compression to MPEG of MJPEG video. Edit, play and compression software is hardware independent.

libcaca is a graphics library that outputs text instead of pixels, so that it can work on older video cards or text terminals. It supports Unicode, 2048 colors, dithering of color images, and advanced text canvas operations.

recordMyDesktop is a command-line tool that captures the activity in your graphical desktop and encodes it as a video. This is a useful tool for making screencasts.

SMPlayer is a graphical user interface (GUI) for MPlayer, which is capable of playing almost all known video and audio formats. Apart from providing access for the most common and useful options of MPlayer, SMPlayer adds other interesting features like the possibility to play Youtube videos, download subtitles, remember the last played position, etc.

Libcaption creates and parses closed-caption data, providing an encoder / decoder for the EIA608 and CEA708 closed-caption standards.

608 support is currently limited to encoding and decoding the necessary control and preamble codes as well as support for the Basic North American, Special North American and Extended Western European character sets.

708 support is limited to encoding the 608 data in NTSC field 1 user data type structure.

In addition, utility functions to create h.264 SEI (Supplementary enhancement information) NALUs (Network Abstraction Layer Unit) for inclusion into an h.264 elementary stream are provided.

get_iplayer lists, searches and records BBC iPlayer TV/Radio, BBC Podcast programmes. Other third-party plugins may be available. get_iplayer has three modes: recording a complete programme for later playback, streaming a programme directly to a playback application, such as mplayer; and as a Personal Video Recorder (PVR), subscribing to search terms and recording programmes automatically. It can also stream or record live BBC iPlayer output.

Avidemux is a video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks. It supports many file types, including AVI, DVD compatible MPEG files, MP4 and ASF, using a variety of codecs. Tasks can be automated using projects, job queue and powerful scripting capabilities.

A simple command line tool to backup video from a DVD. Decrypts the DVD using libdvdcss, but does not demux, remux, transcode or reformat the videos in any way, producing perfect backups.

srt2vtt converts SubRip formatted subtitles to WebVTT format for use with HTML5 video.

This package provides a plugin for adding a gradient Source to OBS Studio.