Wlstream is a screen capture tool for recording audio and video from a Wayland session.

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.

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.

dav1d is a new AV1 cross-platform decoder, and focused on speed and correctness.

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.

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

Jellyfin MPV Shim is a cross-platform cast client for Jellyfin. It has support for various media files without transcoding.

L-SMASH is a cross-platform library that handles the ISO base media file format and some of its derived file formats, including MP4. It operates as a multiplexer and demultiplexer, and can mux video and audio in several formats using standalone executable files.

Vidstab is a video stabilization library which can be used with FFmpeg. A video acquired using a hand-held camera or a camera mounted on a vehicle typically suffers from undesirable shakes and jitters. Activities such as surfing, skiing, riding and walking while shooting videos are especially prone to erratic camera shakes. Vidstab targets these video contents to help create smoother and stable videos.

liba52 is a library for decoding ATSC A/52 audio streams. The A/52 standard is used in a variety of applications, including digital television and DVD. It is also known as AC-3.

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.

libcaca is a graphics library that outputs text instead of pixels, so that it can work on older video cards or text terminals. It supports Unicode, 2048 colors, dithering of color images, and advanced text canvas operations.

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.

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

GPAC is a multimedia framework focused on modularity and standards compliance. GPAC provides tools to process, inspect, package, stream, playback and interact with media content. Such content can be any combination of audio, video, subtitles, metadata, scalable graphics, encrypted media, 2D/3D graphics and ECMAScript.

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.

Matroska aims to become the standard of multimedia container formats. It is based on EBML (Extensible Binary Meta Language), a binary derivative of XML. EBML enables the Matroska Development Team to gain significant advantages in terms of future format extensibility, without breaking file support in old parsers. libebml is a C++ library to read and write EBML files.

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

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.

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

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.

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

SMPlayer is a graphical user interface (GUI) for MPlayer, which is capable of playing almost all known video and audio formats. Apart from providing access for the most common and useful options of MPlayer, SMPlayer adds other interesting features like the possibility to play Youtube videos, download subtitles, remember the last played position, etc.

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