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.

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.

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

The Quasar DV codec (libdv) is a software codec for DV video, the encoding format used by most digital camcorders, typically those that support the IEEE 1394 (a.k.a. FireWire or i.Link) interface. Libdv was developed according to the official standards for DV video: IEC 61834 and SMPTE 314M.

Libdvdread provides a simple foundation for reading DVD video disks. It provides the functionality that is required to access many DVDs. It parses IFO files, reads NAV-blocks, and performs CSS authentication and descrambling (if an external libdvdcss library is installed).

Mjpeg tools is a suite of programs which support video capture, editing, playback, and compression to MPEG of MJPEG video. Edit, play and compression software is hardware independent.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

The main motivation for VA-API (Video Acceleration API) is to enable hardware accelerated video decode/encode at various entry-points (VLD, IDCT, Motion Compensation etc.) for prevailing coding standards (MPEG-2, MPEG-4 ASP/H.263, MPEG-4 AVC/H.264, and VC-1/VMW3).

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

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.

Avidemux is a video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks. It supports many file types, including AVI, DVD compatible MPEG files, MP4 and ASF, using a variety of codecs. Tasks can be automated using projects, job queue and powerful scripting capabilities.

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

mpv is a general-purpose audio and video player. It is a fork of mplayer2 and MPlayer. It shares some features with the former projects while introducing many more.

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.

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.

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...

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.

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.

VLC is a cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as DVD, Audio CD, VCD, and various streaming protocols.