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

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

You-Get is a command-line utility to download media contents (videos, audio, images) from the Web. It can use either mpv or vlc for playback.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

libdvdcss is a simple library designed for accessing DVDs like a block device without having to bother about the decryption.

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.

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

rav1e is an AV1 video encoder. It is designed to eventually cover all use cases, though in its current form it is most suitable for cases where libaom (the reference encoder) is too slow.

ani-cli is a CLI to browse and watch anime by streaming videos from All Anime.

There are different features such as episode browsing, history tracking, streaming at multiple resolutions, and much more, depending on what programs the user has installed.

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.

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

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

Aegisub is a tool for creating and modifying subtitles. Aegisub makes it quick and easy to time subtitles to audio, and features many powerful tools for styling them, including a built-in real-time video preview.

FFmpegthumbnailer is a lightweight video thumbnailer that can be used by file managers to create thumbnails for your video files. The thumbnailer uses ffmpeg to decode frames from the video files, so supported videoformats depend on the configuration flags of ffmpeg.

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.

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.

This is a collection of utilities to query and test the VA-API implemented by the libva library.

These tools require a supported graphics chip, driver, and VA-API back end to operate properly.

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

Transcode is a fast, versatile and command-line based audio/video everything to everything converter primarily focused on producing AVI video files with MP3 audio, but also including a program to read all the video and audio streams from a DVD.

Plugin for OBS Studio to move source to a new position during scene transition.