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libsmpeg 0.4.5-401
Dependencies: sdl2@2.30.8
Channel: guix
Location: gnu/packages/video.scm (gnu packages video)
Home page: https://icculus.org/smpeg/
Licenses: Expat LGPL 2.1 LGPL 2.1+ GPL 2
Build system: gnu
Synopsis: SDL MPEG decoding library
Description:

SMPEG (SDL MPEG Player Library) is a free MPEG1 video player library with sound support. Video playback is based on the ubiquitous Berkeley MPEG player, mpeg_play v2.2. Audio is played through a slightly modified mpegsound library, part of splay v0.8.2. SMPEG supports MPEG audio (MP3), MPEG-1 video, and MPEG system streams.

ytarchive 0.5.0
Dependencies: ffmpeg@8.1.1
Channel: guix
Location: gnu/packages/video.scm (gnu packages video)
Home page: https://github.com/Kethsar/ytarchive
Licenses: Expat
Build system: go
Synopsis: Youtube livestream downloader
Description:

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.

libdvdread 6.1.3
Propagated dependencies: libdvdcss@1.4.3
Channel: guix
Location: gnu/packages/video.scm (gnu packages video)
Home page: http://dvdnav.mplayerhq.hu/
Licenses: GPL 2+
Build system: gnu
Synopsis: Library for reading video DVDs
Description:

Libdvdread provides a simple foundation for reading DVD video disks. It provides the functionality that is required to access many DVDs. It parses IFO files, reads NAV-blocks, and performs CSS authentication and descrambling (if an external libdvdcss library is installed).

w-scan 20170107
Channel: guix
Location: gnu/packages/video.scm (gnu packages video)
Home page: https://www.gen2vdr.de/wirbel/w_scan/index2.html
Licenses: GPL 2+
Build system: gnu
Synopsis: Scan ATSC/DVB-C/DVB-S/DVB-T channels
Description:

This is a small command line utility used to perform frequency scans for DVB and ATSC transmissions without initial tuning data. It can print the result in several formats:

  • VDR channels.conf,

  • czap/tzap/xine/mplayer channels.conf,

  • Gstreamer dvbsrc plugin,

  • VLC xspf playlist,

  • XML,

  • initial tuning data for scan or dvbv5-scan.

v4l-utils 1.24.1
Dependencies: libjpeg-turbo@2.1.4 eudev@3.2.14
Channel: guix
Location: gnu/packages/video.scm (gnu packages video)
Home page: https://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/V4l-utils
Licenses: LGPL 2.1+ GPL 2
Build system: gnu
Synopsis: Realtime video capture utilities for Linux
Description:

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

mediasdk 23.2.2
Dependencies: libdrm@2.4.131 libva@2.22.0 libpciaccess@0.18.1 wayland@1.24.0 libx11@1.8.12
Channel: guix
Location: gnu/packages/video.scm (gnu packages video)
Home page: http://mediasdk.intel.com/
Licenses: non-copyleft
Build system: cmake
Synopsis: Intel Media SDK
Description:

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

aalib 1.4rc5
Dependencies: ncurses@6.2.20210619
Channel: guix
Location: gnu/packages/video.scm (gnu packages video)
Home page: https://aa-project.sourceforge.net/aalib/
Licenses: LGPL 2.0+
Build system: gnu
Synopsis: ASCII-art library
Description:

AA-lib is a low level gfx library which does not require graphics device. In fact, there is no graphical output possible. AA-lib replaces those old-fashioned output methods with powerful ascii-art renderer.

x265 4.1
Channel: guix
Location: gnu/packages/video.scm (gnu packages video)
Home page: https://x265.org/
Licenses: GPL 2+
Build system: cmake
Synopsis: Library for encoding h.265/HEVC video streams
Description:

x265 is a H.265 / HEVC video encoder application library, designed to encode video or images into an H.265 / HEVC encoded bitstream.

libbluray 1.3.4
Dependencies: fontconfig-minimal@2.16.0 freetype@2.13.3 libaacs@0.11.0 libbdplus@0.2.0 libxml2@2.14.6
Channel: guix
Location: gnu/packages/video.scm (gnu packages video)
Home page: https://www.videolan.org/developers/libbluray.html
Licenses: LGPL 2.1+
Build system: gnu
Synopsis: Blu-Ray Disc playback library
Description:

libbluray is a library designed for Blu-Ray Disc playback for media players, like VLC or MPlayer.

svt-hevc 1.5.1
Channel: guix
Location: gnu/packages/video.scm (gnu packages video)
Home page: https://github.com/OpenVisualCloud/SVT-HEVC/
Licenses: non-copyleft
Build system: cmake
Synopsis: SVT HEVC encoder
Description:

Scalable Video Technology (SVT) is a software-based video coding technology that is highly optimized for Intel's Xeon processors. Using the SVT-HEVC encoder, it is possible to spread video encoding processing across multiple Intel's Xeon processors to achieve a real advantage of processing efficiency. Note that this package requires the AVX2 instruction, which means it will not work on older x86_64 CPUs such as the Core 2 Duo.

obs-looking-glass B7
Dependencies: bash-minimal@5.2.37 fontconfig-minimal@2.16.0 freetype@2.13.3 glu@9.0.2 gmp@6.3.0 libglvnd@1.7.0 libiberty@14.3.0 libx11@1.8.12 libxcursor@1.2.3 libxfixes@6.0.1 libxi@1.8.2 libxinerama@1.1.5 libxkbcommon@1.13.1 libxpresent@1.0.1 libxrandr@1.5.4 libxscrnsaver@1.2.4 mesa@26.0.2 obs@32.0.4 openssl@3.5.5 sdl2@2.30.8 sdl2-ttf@2.20.2 simde@0.8.2 spice-protocol@0.14.4 wayland@1.24.0 wayland-protocols@1.47 zlib@1.3.1
Channel: guix
Location: gnu/packages/video.scm (gnu packages video)
Home page: https://looking-glass.io/
Licenses: GPL 2+
Build system: cmake
Synopsis: Looking Glass video feed to OBS as a video source
Description:

This OBS plugin allows a Looking Glass video feed to OBS as a video source with the included OBS plugin. This provides a lower-latency alternative to capturing the Looking Glass client window with a Screen or Window Capture source.

This may help improve your viewers watching experience, and allows you to use your host privately.

openh264 2.6.0
Channel: guix
Location: gnu/packages/video.scm (gnu packages video)
Home page: https://www.openh264.org/
Licenses: FreeBSD
Build system: gnu
Synopsis: H264 decoder library
Description:

Openh264 is a library which can decode H264 video streams.

python-yewtube 2.13.1
Propagated dependencies: python-pylast@4.2.1 python-pyperclip@1.9.0 python-requests@2.32.5 python-yewtube-search@1.6.7 yt-dlp@2026.06.09
Channel: guix
Location: gnu/packages/video.scm (gnu packages video)
Home page: https://github.com/mps-youtube/yewtube
Licenses: GPL 3+
Build system: pyproject
Synopsis: Terminal based YouTube player and downloader
Description:

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

yt-dlp 2026.06.09
Dependencies: ffmpeg@8.1.1 python-brotli@1.0.9 python-certifi@2025.06.15 python-mutagen@1.47.0 python-pycryptodomex@3.23.0 python-requests@2.32.5 python-urllib3@2.5.0 python-websockets@13.1
Channel: guix
Location: gnu/packages/video.scm (gnu packages video)
Home page: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp
Licenses: Public Domain
Build system: pyproject
Synopsis: Download videos from YouTube.com and other sites
Description:

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.

libaom 3.8.0
Channel: guix
Location: gnu/packages/video.scm (gnu packages video)
Home page: https://aomedia.googlesource.com/aom/
Licenses: FreeBSD
Build system: cmake
Synopsis: AV1 video codec
Description:

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

libass 0.15.1
Propagated dependencies: freetype@2.13.3 fribidi@1.0.12 fontconfig-minimal@2.16.0 harfbuzz@11.4.4
Channel: guix
Location: gnu/packages/video.scm (gnu packages video)
Home page: https://github.com/libass/libass
Licenses: ISC
Build system: gnu
Synopsis: Subtitle rendering library for the ASS/SSA format
Description:

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

video-contact-sheet 1.13.4
Dependencies: bash-minimal@5.2.37 ffmpeg@8.1.1 imagemagick@6.9.13-5
Channel: guix
Location: gnu/packages/video.scm (gnu packages video)
Home page: https://github.com/outlyer-net/video-contact-sheet
Licenses: LGPL 2.1+
Build system: gnu
Synopsis: Create contact sheets (preview images) from videos
Description:

VCS is a Bash script meant to create video contact sheets (previews) of videos. Any video supported by MPlayer and FFmpeg can be used. A note of warning: Unlike most similar tools VCS, by default, makes screenshots the same size as the video, see the manual for details on how to change this.

mpvpaper 1.8
Dependencies: mesa@26.0.2 mpv@0.41.0 wayland@1.24.0 wayland-protocols@1.47
Channel: guix
Location: gnu/packages/video.scm (gnu packages video)
Home page: https://github.com/GhostNaN/mpvpaper
Licenses: GPL 3
Build system: meson
Synopsis: Video wallpaper program for wlroots-based wayland compositors
Description:

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

libopenshot 0.5.0
Dependencies: alsa-lib@1.2.16 zlib@1.3.1
Propagated dependencies: cppzmq@4.10.0 ffmpeg@4.4.7 imagemagick@6.9.13-5 jsoncpp@1.9.6 libopenshot-audio@0.5.0 qtbase@5.15.17 qtmultimedia@5.15.17 qtsvg@5.15.17 zeromq@4.3.5
Channel: guix
Location: gnu/packages/video.scm (gnu packages video)
Home page: https://openshot.org
Licenses: LGPL 3+
Build system: cmake
Synopsis: Video-editing, animation, and playback library
Description:

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.

syncplay 1.7.3
Dependencies: bash-minimal@5.2.37 python-certifi@2025.06.15 python-idna@3.10 python-service-identity@24.2.0 python-twisted@25.5.0 qtwayland@6.9.2
Channel: guix
Location: gnu/packages/video.scm (gnu packages video)
Home page: https://syncplay.pl
Licenses: ASL 2.0
Build system: pyproject
Synopsis: Client/server to synchronize media playback on many computers
Description:

Syncplay is a solution to synchronize video playback across multiple instances of media players over the Internet. When one person pauses/unpauses playback or skips to a position in the video, this is replicated across all media players connected to the same server and in the same "room" (viewing session). A built-in text chat for discussing the synced media is also included for convenience.

showmethekey 1.21.0
Dependencies: libevdev@1.13.6 eudev@3.2.14 libinput@1.29.1 glib@2.86.0 libadwaita@1.8.2 json-glib@1.10.0
Channel: guix
Location: gnu/packages/video.scm (gnu packages video)
Home page: https://github.com/AlynxZhou/showmethekey
Licenses: ASL 2.0
Build system: meson
Synopsis: Show keypresses on screen
Description:

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.

libmpeg2 0.5.1
Dependencies: libx11@1.8.12 libxext@1.3.6 libxv@1.0.13 libsm@1.2.5 libice@1.1.2 sdl12-compat@1.2.68
Channel: guix
Location: gnu/packages/video.scm (gnu packages video)
Home page: https://libmpeg2.sourceforge.net/
Licenses: GPL 2+
Build system: gnu
Synopsis: MPEG1 and MPEG2 video decoder library
Description:

libmpeg2 is a library which can decode MPEG1 and MPEG2 video streams.

vdpauinfo 1.5
Propagated dependencies: libvdpau@1.5
Channel: guix
Location: gnu/packages/video.scm (gnu packages video)
Home page: https://wiki.freedesktop.org/www/Software/VDPAU/
Licenses: X11-style
Build system: gnu
Synopsis: Tool to query the capabilities of a VDPAU implementation
Description:

Vdpauinfo is a tool to query the capabilities of a VDPAU implementation.

Total packages: 32521