Movit is a high-quality, high-performance library for GPU-accelerated video filtering built on modern OpenGL. It provides a compact set of carefully implemented filters designed for predictable real-time performance and visually accurate results, supporting OpenGL 3.0 or GLES 3.0.

Included filters provide blur, diffusion, FFT-based convolution, glow, color correction (lift/gamma/gain), mirror, luma-based transitions, Porter-Duff overlay composition, bilinear and Lanczos scaling, sharpening (unsharp mask and Wiener), saturation, vignette, white balance and YADIF deinterlacing.

libass is a subtitle rendering library for the ASS/SSA (Advanced Substation Alpha/SubStation Alpha) subtitle format.

This package provides an OBS plugin for copy and paste scenes, sources and filters.

OpenTimelineIO is an interchange format and API for editorial cut information. OTIO contains information about the order and length of cuts and references to external media. It is not however, a container format for media.

For integration with applications, the core OTIO library is implemented in C++ and provides an in-memory data model, as well as library functions for interpreting, manipulating, and serializing that data model. Within the core is a dependency-less library for dealing strictly with time, opentime.

OBS Advanced Masks is a project designed to expand the masking functionalities within OBS Studio. This plug-in provides filters for users to create intricate and customized masks for their OBS Scenes and Sources.

• Advanced Masks provides both Alpha Masking and Adjustment Masking.

• Shape masks allow for dynamically generated Rectangle, Circle, Elliptical, Regular Polygon, Star, and Heart shaped masks, with many adjustable parameters.

• Source Masks allow an existing OBS source to be used as a mask, using any combination of the red, green, blue, or alpha channels from said source.

• Image Masks include all of the same functionality as Source Masks, but applied via a static image (.png, .jpeg, etc).

• Gradient Masks allow a fading mask using a user-specified gradient.

Attempt to archive a given Youtube livestream from the start. This is most useful for streams that have already started and you want to download, but can also be used to wait for a scheduled stream and start downloading as soon as it starts.

OpenShot Library (libopenshot) is a powerful C++ video editing library with a multi-threaded and feature rich video editing API. It includes bindings for Python, Ruby, and other languages.

qtfaststart enables streaming and pseudo-streaming of QuickTime and MP4 files by moving metadata and offset information to the beginning of the file. It can also print some useful information about the structure of the file. This program is based on qt-faststart.c from the FFmpeg project, which is released into the public domain, as well as ISO 14496-12:2005 (the official spec for MP4), which can be obtained from the ISO or found online.

dvdauthor will generate a DVD-Video movie from a MPEG-2 stream containing VOB packets.

The mpvpaper package provides a wallpaper program for wlroots-based wayland compositors, allowing you to play videos as your wallpaper using mpv.

This package provides a terminal based YouTube player and downloader. It does not require a Youtube API key.

mpv is a general-purpose audio and video player. It is a fork of mplayer2 and MPlayer. It shares some features with the former projects while introducing many more.

MediaInfo is a library used for retrieving technical information and other metadata about audio or video files. A non-exhaustive list of the information MediaInfo can retrieve from media files include:

• General: title, author, director, album, track number, date, duration...

• Video: codec, aspect, fps, bitrate...

• Audio: codec, sample rate, channels, language, bitrate...

• Text: language of subtitle

• Chapters: number of chapters, list of chapters

MediaInfo supports the following formats:

• Video: MKV, OGM, AVI, DivX, WMV, QuickTime, Real, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DVD (VOB)...

• Video Codecs: DivX, XviD, MSMPEG4, ASP, H.264, AVC...)

• Audio: OGG, MP3, WAV, RA, AC3, DTS, AAC, M4A, AU, AIFF...

• Subtitles: SRT, SSA, ASS, SAMI...

The MP4v2 library provides an API to create and modify mp4 files as defined by ISO-IEC:14496-1:2001 MPEG-4 Systems. This file format is derived from Apple's QuickTime file format that has been used as a multimedia file format in a variety of platforms and applications. It is a very powerful and extensible format that can accommodate practically any type of media.

This OBS plugin lets you record an OpenGL or Vulkan game by adding the Game Capture source to your scene and starting an application with obs-gamecapture.

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.

Openh264 is a library which can decode H264 video streams.

libdca is a library for decoding DTS Coherent Acoustics streams.

HandBrake is a tool for converting video from any format to a selection of modern, widely supported codecs.

MLT is a multimedia framework, designed and developed for television broadcasting. It provides a toolkit for broadcasters, video editors, media players, transcoders, web streamers and many more types of applications. The functionality of the system is provided via an assortment of ready to use tools, XML authoring components, and an extensible plug-in based API.

Gaupol supports multiple subtitle file formats and provides means of creating subtitles, editing texts and timing subtitles to match video. The user interface features a builtin video player and is designed with attention to convenience of translating and batch processing of multiple documents.

Peek makes it easy to create short screencasts of a screen area. It was built for the specific use case of recording screen areas, e.g. for easily showing UI features of your own apps or for showing a bug in bug reports. With Peek, you simply place the Peek window over the area you want to record and press "Record". Peek is optimized for generating animated GIFs, but you can also directly record to WebM or MP4 if you prefer.

FFmpeg is a complete, cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video. It includes the libavcodec audio/video codec library.

Open Broadcaster Software provides a graphical interface for video recording and live streaming. OBS supports capturing audio and video from many input sources such as webcams, X11 (for screencasting), PulseAudio, and JACK.