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View 20 business solutionsBrowse free open source Codec software and projects for Linux below. Use the toggles on the left to filter open source Codec software by OS, license, language, programming language, and project status.
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avbuild
ffmpeg build tool and prebuilt packages for all platforms
iOS, android, raspberry pi, windows store, windows desktop, linux, macOS etc. Multiple toolchains support, include gcc, clang, vs2013, vs2015, vs2017. Hardware accelerated decoders and encoders support. Source code: https://github.com/wang-bin/avbuild -
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FFmpeg
Tools to process multimedia content such as audio, video, subtitles...
A complete, cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video. FFmpeg is a collection of libraries and tools to process multimedia content such as audio, video, subtitles, and related metadata. Provides an implementation of a wider range of codecs. Implements streaming protocols, container formats, and basic I/O access. Includes hashers, decompressors and miscellaneous utility functions. Provides means to alter decoded audio and video through a directed graph of connected filters. Provides an abstraction to access capture and playback devices. Implements audio mixing and resampling routines. Implements color conversion and scaling routines. FFmpeg is a command-line toolbox to manipulate, convert and stream multimedia content. ffplay is a minimalistic multimedia player. FFmpeg codebase is mainly LGPL-licensed with optional components licensed under GPL. -
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A fast closed captions extractor for MPEG and H264 files. Supports DVD, HDTV transport streams, Replay TV. Use this to create .srt (subtitles) files for your TV captures, have transcripts so you can edit subtitles, etc. This project has moved to its own domain: https://www.ccextractor.org Files in sourceforge are left for archival purposes, but new releases will be available from ccextractor.org.
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AV1 AVIF
AV1 Image File Format Specification - ISO-BMFF/HEIF derivative
AV1 AVIF is the official specification and reference design for the AV1 Image File Format (AVIF), defining how AV1-encoded bitstreams are packaged into the HEIF container format (based on ISOBMFF) to produce AVIF files. The project outlines the syntax and semantics required for AVIF compliance, including support for multiple image profiles, color depths, chroma subsampling modes, HDR/WCG, alpha channels, animation/image sequences, and various color-space/bit-depth combinations — making AVIF a versatile, modern image format suitable for both simple photos and advanced imagery needing high fidelity. The specification ensures interoperability across encoders and decoders, providing guidelines so that images created by any compliant AVIF encoder can be reliably decoded by compliant decoders. As adoption grows, AV1 AVIF plays a crucial role in promoting a royalty-free, open, high-efficiency image standard that competes with older formats such as JPEG and newer proprietary ones. -
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Dolphin DVR Player
One very easy-to-use powerful but totally free player for DVR videos
Dolphin DVR Player is one very easy-to-use powerful but totally free player for DVR videos, NVR Videos, HVR videos and CCTV videos. Dolphin DVR Player is one professional H.264/H.265 video player and can play all H.264/H.265 video files smoothly. Dolphin DVR Player is also one NVR, HVR and CCTV video player, only if the video coding is H.264 or H265, the Dolphin DVR Player can detect the video coding type automatically. -
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libsmacker
A C library for decoding .smk Smacker Video files
libsmacker is a cross-platform C library which can be used for decoding Smacker Video files produced by RAD Game Tools. Smacker Video was the king of video middleware in the 1990s, and its 256-color compressed video format was used in over 2600 software titles. Please visit the Project Web site for detailed information. -
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h264enc
Advanced shell script for video encoding
Advanced shell script for encoding DVDs, Blu-rays or video files to the H.264 format using the encoding utility MEncoder from the MPlayer project. Supports all the useful options an end-user would need to make a successful encode. The script is a CLI front-end to MEncoder and various audio encoders and container muxers. h264enc is no longer actively developed. Please ty out: https://sourceforge.net/projects/ffx264/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/ffhevc/ -
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** Now on Github; https://github.com/aizvorski/h264bitstream ** libh264bitstream provides a complete set of functions to read and write video bitstreams conforming to the ITU-T H.264 | ISO/IEC 14496-10 AVC video standard.
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Open SVC Decoder aims to provide a real-time coding framework for Scalable Video Coding extension of H.264/AVC.This project is AVC/SVC library decoding tools created at the IETR/INSA of Rennes. Please have a look at the project web site for more details
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Intel Integrated Performace Primitives audio/video codecs plug-in for the OPAL/OpenH323 library including G.728, G.729, G.723.1, G.722.2 GSM-FR, GSM-AMR, H.261, H.263, H.264 and MPEG4 part 2.
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FRONTEND for mencoder for Windows and Linux. Convert rmvb,avi,mp4,wmv, ogv, mkv, mov, mpg, vob,ogv, ogg, ogm etc To avi (divx5), xvid, dvd iso, h264 in a simple way. Required java runtime 6 and over. (On Linux is required mencoder, dvdauthor and mkisofs)
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FFavs, fast forwarding or transcoding every video format to AVS format. The name comes from FFmpeg. Because of its cheap license and good compression efficiency, AVS is a better choice to replace MPEG-2 than H.264/AVC.
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OpenAVS is the open source implementaion of AVS (Advanced Coding of Audio and Video ). AVS is competing with MPEG-4 and H.264 to replace the current worldwide compression standard, MPEG-2.
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The Bolt Player™ a free open source video player lives up to it's name by delivering fast, high definition video. The Bolt™ player delivers a true high definition picture that supports both Flash and HTML5 delivering your videos on mobile devices.
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Defa Protect HTML5 Video From Download
Prevent and Protect Your HTML5 Video, Music , Audio From Download Free
Defa Protector is A Simple PHP and Wordpress Plugin To Protect and Prevent Video Save As From Browser and Some Video Grabber. There is 100% Guaranteed Protection and There might be some tradeoff but If you care about Digital Rights Management of Your Video and Music Content. This Project is for you. Defa Protector 6.7.1 Revamp Code For Better Performance To The Bone. We almost rewritten this project from scratch. -
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HomerHEVC
A real time open-source HEVC (h265) encoder under LGPL license
HomerHEVC ( see www.homerhevc.com ): HOMER (Hevc Open Mpeg EncodeR) is an open-source HEVC encoder. HOMER is multiplatform code, tested for Linux and Windows It is published under the LPGLv2.1 license, and is therefore Free Software according to the Free Software Foundation. Source code can be found in: https://github.com/jcasal-homer/HomerHEVC Features (HomerHEVC_v2.0): - Open-source. Free software published under the LGPL license. - Multiplatform (Windows and Linux) - SSE4.2 vectorial optimizations. - Intra (III..) and Baseline (IPP..) profile - Wpp and Frame parallelization - All Intra and Inter prediction sizes (64, 32,16,8,4) - All transform sizes (32,16,8,4) - Quarter pixel precission motion estimation - Fixed QP, CBR and VBR - Deblocking filter - SAO - intra RDO - intra-inter fast RD SSE42 optimizations: - Motion estimation - Inter prediction - Intra Prediction - Reconstruction - SAD, SSD - Transforms - Quantization - SAO -
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Let Me Teach
Edit your own Lessons, easliy and faster than any time
this project make you able to edit your lessons to add some messages and clips easliy . it's for Linux user in the beginning then I will support Windows and maybe MacOS -
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ProRes4Linux
Converts any video formar to Quicktime/ProRes
Este es un pequeño Script de Bash que armé para convertir cualquier video en una carpeta a ProRes/Quicktime (.mov) para poder editarlos en Da Vinci Resolve. -
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ces265
Multi-threaded High Efficiency Video Encoder
ces265 is a "High Efficiency Video Coding" (HEVC) software written in C++ with multi-threading support. This software compresses the raw video stream in YUV 4:2:0 planar format into HEVC 8.0 compatible bitstream. Help is taken from HM-8.0, HM-9.2 and x265 software while writing this software. The contributors of this software are: 1- Muhammad Usman Karim Khan (http://ces.itec.kit.edu/~khan/) 2- Muhammad Shafique (http://ces.itec.kit.edu/~shafique/) 3- Jörg Henkel (http://ces.itec.kit.edu/~henkel/) -
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jipCam provides a JMF-based datasource implementation for IP-based video cameras. This allows Internet Procotol based cameras like the Axis 2100 or 2120 to be used directly in a Java Media Framework enabled video application.
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Acinerella is a small library that wraps around the base playback functionality of FFMpeg. This allows you to use FFMpeg in a very simple way with other programming languages than C.
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Real-time MPEG-4 XpressDSP (xDM) compliant encoder for C64x (DM642) and C64+ (DM6446 DaVinci) Texas Instruments DSPs. Supports: color space conversion, adaptive de-interlace, scale-down etc.
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Evk is a simple lossy video codec. Project aims at developing a clean and functional implementation of basic algorithms used in video compression. Next goal is to create a detailed documentation together with tutorial about video compression.
