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.

libvpx is a codec for the VP8/VP9 video compression format.

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.

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.

Schroedinger is a project implementing the Dirac video codec in ANSI C code. It is meant to be highly optimized and portable. It is developed as a joint effort between the BBC and Fluendo.

Libaom is the reference implementation of AV1. It includes a shared library and encoder and decoder command-line executables.

Lightweight and very quick server to stream MJPEG video from any V4L2 device to the net. All new browsers have native support of this video format, as well as most video players such as mplayer, VLC etc. µStreamer is a part of the PiKVM project designed to stream VGA and HDMI screencast hardware data with the highest resolution and FPS possible.

This kernel module implements a basic interface to the IVSHMEM device for Looking Glass.

Many applications can use VDPAU to accelerate portions of the video decoding process and video post-processing to the GPU video hardware. Since there is no VDPAU available on Intel chips, they fall back to different drawing techniques. This driver uses OpenGL under the hood to accelerate drawing and scaling and VA-API (if available) to accelerate video decoding.

Frei0r is a minimalistic plugin API for video effects. The main emphasis is on simplicity for an API that will round up the most common video effects into simple filters, sources and mixers that can be controlled by parameters. Frei0r wants to provide a way to share these simple effects between many applications, avoiding their reimplementation by different projects. It counts more than 100 plugins.

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.

Openh264 is a library which can decode H264 video streams.

svtplay-dl allows downloading TV programmes from various Swedish broadcasters including SVT Play, Sveriges Radio, TV4 Play, along with many others.

The v4l-utils provide a series of libraries and utilities to be used for realtime video capture via Linux-specific APIs.

Yle-dl is a command line program for downloading media files from the video streaming services of the Finnish national broadcasting company Yle.

yt-dlp is a small command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and many more sites. It is a fork of youtube-dl with a focus on adding new features while keeping up-to-date with the original project.

Gallery-dl is a command-line program that downloads image galleries and collections from several image hosting sites. While this package can use yt-dlp packages to download videos, the focus is more on images and image hosting sites.

SVT-VP9 is a VP9 video encoder implementation. It is focused on supporting video-on-demand and live encoding on Intel Xeon processors.

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

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.

Libmms is a library for streaming media files using the mmst and mmsh protocols.

OpenShot takes your videos, photos, and music files and helps you create the film you have always dreamed of. Easily add sub-titles, transitions, and effects and then export your film to many common formats.

MediaSDK provides a plain C API to access hardware-accelerated video decode, encode and filtering on Intel's Gen graphics hardware platforms.

This package allows an ffmpeg command to run with progress. It is usually a complement to ffmpeg-normalize.