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

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

FFMpegSource is a wrapper library around ffmpeg/libav that allows programmers to access a standard API to open and decompress media files.

VapourSynth is a C++ library and Python module for video manipulation. It aims to be a modern rewrite of Avisynth, supporting multithreading, generalized colorspaces, per frame properties, and videos with format changes.

libbdplus is a library which implements the BD+ System specifications.

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

recordMyDesktop is a command-line tool that captures the activity in your graphical desktop and encodes it as a video. This is a useful tool for making screencasts.

Streamlink is command-line utility that extracts streams from sites like Twitch.tv and pipes them into a video player of choice.

GTK+ UVC Viewer (guvcview) is a graphical application to control a webcam accessible with Video4Linux (V4L2) and to capture videos and images. It provides control over precise settings of the webcam such as exposure, brightness, contrast, and frame rate.

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.

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

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

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.

libdvbpsi is a simple library designed for decoding and generation of MPEG TS and DVB PSI tables according to standards ISO/IEC 13818s and ITU-T H.222.0.

MPlayer is a movie player. It plays most MPEG/VOB, AVI, Ogg/OGM, VIVO, ASF/WMA/WMV, QT/MOV/MP4, RealMedia, Matroska, NUT, NuppelVideo, FLI, YUV4MPEG, FILM, RoQ, PVA files. One can watch VideoCD, SVCD, DVD, 3ivx, DivX 3/4/5, WMV and H.264 movies.

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.

Theorafile is a library for quickly and easily decoding Ogg Theora videos. Theorafile was written to be used for FNA's VideoPlayer.

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.

This package provides an OBS plugin for recording sources via a filter.

ytcc is a command line tool to keep track of your favorite playlists.

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.

Add source to OBS that lets you clone sources to allow different filters than the original.

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

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.