libplacebo is, in a nutshell, the core rendering algorithms and ideas of mpv rewritten as an independent library. As of today, libplacebo contains a large assortment of video processing shaders, focusing on both quality and performance.

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

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.

This package provides an MPRIS (Media Player Remote Interfacing Specification) plugin for the mpv media player. It implements org.mpris.MediaPlayer2 and org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.Player D-Bus interfaces.

To load this plugin, specify the following option when starting mpv: --script $GUIX_PROFILE/lib/mpris.so or link it into $HOME/.config/mpv/scripts.

Pitivi is a video editor built upon the GStreamer Editing Services. It aims to be an intuitive and flexible application that can appeal to newbies and professionals alike.

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

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

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.

svtplay-dl allows downloading TV programmes from various Swedish broadcasters including SVT Play, Sveriges Radio, TV4 Play, along with many others.

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.

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.

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.

This package provides the GameStream code shared between Moonlight clients.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Shotcut is a video editor built on the MLT framework. Features include a wide range of formats through ffmpeg, 4k resolution support, webcam and audio capture, network stream playback, and many more.

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...

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.

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