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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: 1,030 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.
    4.1 out of 5 stars 14 Reviews
    Downloads: 17 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: 71 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.
    5.0 out of 5 stars 10 Reviews
    Downloads: 10 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: 37 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: 1 This Week
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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.
    Downloads: 25 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)
    3.2 out of 5 stars 20 Reviews
    Downloads: 5 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.
    4.0 out of 5 stars 4 Reviews
    Downloads: 2 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: 3 This Week
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    Fev h264 is a baseline h.264 / MPEG 4 AVC encoder.
    Downloads: 3 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.
    5.0 out of 5 stars 2 Reviews
    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: 2 This Week
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    P264Decoder is a free h.264 decoder. It support baseline profile and x264 base bitstream now. The initial p264decoder version is based on the uncompleted x264 decoder. website: http://p264decoder.zj.com
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    Downloads: 2 This Week
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    ThisisMyPlayer

    ThisisMyPlayer

    Lightweight, elegant and simple media player powered by mpv.

    ThisisMyPlayer is a bloat-free, resource-friendly media player built with Python 3 and PyQt6, utilizing the powerful mpv core library directly without relying on the standalone mpv player interface. . Features include: Direct embedded libmpv playback with X11/XWayland hardware acceleration. Automatic dynamic audio normalization filter (lavfi dynaudnorm). Eye-friendly custom subtitle styling and automated encoding fixes. Minimalist playlist support and smart auto-hiding controls in fullscreen. Native multi-language support (i18n via gettext). Github page: https://github.com/shampuan/ThisisMyPlayer My other apps: https://sourceforge.net/u/shampuan/profile
    5.0 out of 5 stars 1 Review
    Downloads: 1 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: 1 This Week
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    EncodeX

    MPEG-4 x264 Encoder GUI

    MPEG-4 MKV MP4 x264 ffmpeg Encoder GUI
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    HomerHEVC

    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
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    MPlayer Standalone including all codecs
    MPlayer with all essential codes, encoders, decoders & filters. For LINUX users: just extract the source & run the 'install.sh' file from Terminal. For Windows users: Not Tested yet, but hope to work on MINGW32 in WinXP. Thanks from Chinmoy & Srijon
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    libflv is library to create FLV video streams for use with Flash/SWF movies.
    Downloads: 1 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.
    5.0 out of 5 stars 1 Review
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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    HDS video codec.
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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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    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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    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.
    5.0 out of 5 stars 1 Review
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