lsdvd provides output about the types of video, audio tracks and subtitles. Output is available in a number of formats including human readable, perl, ruby or xml.

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

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

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

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.

libaacs is a library which implements the Advanced Access Content System specification.

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.

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.

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.

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.

This OBS plugin lets you record an OpenGL or Vulkan game by adding the Game Capture source to your scene and starting an application with obs-gamecapture.

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.

MediaSDK provides a plain C API to access hardware-accelerated video decode, encode and filtering on Intel's Gen graphics hardware platforms.

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.

Plugin for OBS Studio which is intended to allow users to apply their own shaders to OBS sources. This theoretically makes possible some simple effects like drop shadows that can be implemented strictly in shader code.

libdca is a library for decoding DTS Coherent Acoustics streams.

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

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.

SVT-AV1 is an AV1 codec implementation. The encoder is a work-in-progress, aiming to support video-on-demand and live streaming applications with high performance requirements. It mainly targets Intel-compatible CPUs (x86), but has limited support for other architectures.

The MP4v2 library provides an API to create and modify mp4 files as defined by ISO-IEC:14496-1:2001 MPEG-4 Systems. This file format is derived from Apple's QuickTime file format that has been used as a multimedia file format in a variety of platforms and applications. It is a very powerful and extensible format that can accommodate practically any type of media.

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.

This is a plugin to streaming to multiple RTMP servers concurrently. It's able to share encoders with main output of OBS to save CPU power. It can also use standalone encoders with basic configuration (bitrate).

AtomicParsley is a lightweight command line program for reading, parsing and setting metadata into MPEG-4 files, in particular, iTunes-style metadata.