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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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    Downloads: 486 This Week
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    FFmpeg

    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.
    Downloads: 17 This Week
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    AV1 AVIF

    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.
    Downloads: 5 This Week
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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.
    Downloads: 13 This Week
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    Dolphin DVR Player

    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.
    Downloads: 40 This Week
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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.
    Downloads: 13 This Week
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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)
    Downloads: 6 This Week
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    libsmacker

    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.
    Downloads: 15 This Week
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    Open SVC Decoder
    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
    Downloads: 3 This Week
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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.
    Downloads: 4 This Week
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    An implementation of the VP8 image/video codec in pure Java.
    Downloads: 3 This Week
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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/
    Downloads: 4 This Week
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    Acinerella
    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.
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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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.
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    FastoCloud PRO

    IPTV/NVR/CCTV/Video cloud https://fastocloud.com

    IPTV/Video cloud Features: Cross-platform (Linux, MacOSX, FreeBSD, Raspbian/Armbian) GPU/CPU Encode/Decode/Post Processing Stream statistics CCTV Adaptive hls streams Load balancing Temporary urls HLS push EPG scanning Subtitles to text conversions AD insertion Logo overlay Video effects Relays Timeshifts Catchups Playlists Restream/Transcode from online streaming services like Youtube, Twitch Mozaic Many Outputs Physical Inputs Streaming Protocols File Formats Presets Vods/Series server-side support Pay per view channels Channels on demand HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) server-side support Public API, client server communication via JSON RPC Protocol gzip compression Deep learning video analysis Supported deep learning frameworks: Tensorflow NCSDK Caffe ML Hardware:
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    That is an video encoder that implements h264 encoding. Main goal is to provide lite Java h264 implementation for Applets and Client development.
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    ProRes4Linux

    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.
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    Fev h264 is a baseline h.264 / MPEG 4 AVC encoder.
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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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.
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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    HDS video codec.
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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    Defa Protect HTML5 Video From Download

    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.
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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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.
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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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.
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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    EncodeX

    MPEG-4 x264 Encoder GUI

    MPEG-4 MKV MP4 x264 ffmpeg Encoder GUI
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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    EvilEncoding is a software for parallel video encoding. You can encode one movie parallel on multiple computers. So you would have an enormous performance boost. As encoding engine mencoder will be fully featured used.
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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