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...

This package provides a Go-based command line application to download videos from Austria's national television broadcaster.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Celluloid is a simple GTK+ frontend for the mpv media player. It interacts with mpv via the client API exported by libmpv, allowing access to mpv's powerful playback capabilities.

MKVToolNix provides tools for getting information about Matroska files (mkvinfo), extracting tracks/data from Matroska files (mkvextract), and creating Matroska files from other media files (mkvmerge).

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

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

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

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.

An OBS plugin to record or stream individual OBS sources or scenes. It's an alternative to the Source Record plugin, but more focused on streaming. The plugin can be used to simultaneously stream to multiple platforms, or to record sources to different files providing flexibility during editing.

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.

Libmpeg3 decodes MP2, MP3, AC3, MPEG-1 video, MPEG-2 video, and DVD footage in a single library. It supports many esoteric features like parallel video decoding, frame-accurate editing, YUV 4:2:2, and ATSC transport stream decoding

Pipe-Viewer is a lightweight application for searching and playing videos from YouTube. It parses the YouTube website directly and relies on the Invidious instances only as a fallback method.

libdca is a library for decoding DTS Coherent Acoustics streams.

Libdvdnav is a library for developers of multimedia applications. It allows easy use of sophisticated DVD navigation features such as DVD menus, multiangle playback and even interactive DVD games. All this functionality is provided through a simple API which provides the DVD playback as a single logical stream of blocks, intermitted by special dvdnav events to report certain conditions. The main usage of libdvdnav is a loop regularly calling a function to get the next block, surrounded by additional calls to tell the library of user interaction. The whole DVD virtual machine and internal playback states are completely encapsulated.

VLC is a cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as DVD, Audio CD, VCD, and various streaming protocols.

TSLib is a cross-platform library that provides access to touchscreen devices and the ability to apply filters to their input events.

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

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