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    ffdshow

    A DirectShow and Video for Windows codec (VFW)

    ffdshow is an advanced DirectShow filter and Video for Windows codec (VFW) codec that supports many audio and video formats. For example: H.264, MPEG-4, MPEG-2, H.263, VP3, VP6, Theora, MJPEG, SVQ3, MP3, AC3, DTS, E-AC3, AAC, and Vorbis.
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    x264vfw
    x264vfw is the VfW (Video for Windows) version of well known x264 encoder + ffh264 decoder (from FFmpeg/Libav project).
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    Downloads: 330 This Week
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    MMC is a commander-style media player for Windows, with native, hw accelerated video playing and translucent gui. Mpxplay is a console audio player for DOS and Win32 operating systems. x264vfw, x265vfw and xAV1vfw are video for windows encoder and decoder codecs, useful with VirtualDub.
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    Downloads: 217 This Week
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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: 489 This Week
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    YUV Player

    yuvplayer which supports planar/packed yuv

    RAW yuv player project is moved to GITHUB. Visit: https://github.com/Tee0125/yuvplayer Old description: Lightweight player for raw YUV/UYVY files.
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    Downloads: 47 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.
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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: 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.
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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.
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    BlackBelt CodecPack

    BlackBelt CodecPack

    A clean, lean CoDec Pack. FFDShow and LAV Combined.

    Contains support for popular formats. Works especially well with MediaPortal. LAV, ffdshow - why choose between when you can have both in one pack ! WMV/WMA, DivX, AVI, ASF, FLV, Ogg FLAC, HEV1, x264, x265 etc. NO SPYWARE, NO ADWARE, NO TOOLBARS, NO PLAYER - JUST PURE CODECS Windows XP / Vista / 7 / 8 / 10 - 32/64 bit.
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    Intel QuickSync Decoder

    A free decoder that utilizes the Intel QuickSync technology

    Abstracts the hassle of HW accelerated decoding in Intel's 2nd generation Core i3/i5/i7/Pentium/Celeron (SandyBridge) or newer Intel CPU/GPU using the Intel QuickSync technology. Started as an internal decoder within FFDShow. Can be easily ported to other DirectShow decoders. The Intel QuickSync decoder is now used within FFDShow, LAV video decoder and PotPlayer.
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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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    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.
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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: 5 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.
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    Video processing source code for algorithms and tools used in software media pipelines. The currently available source code is written in C++ with their associated libraries and DirectShow Filters. Filters include an H.264 encoder, H.264 decoder, H.264 source filter, RTSP sink and source filters, YUV source, RGB to YUV color conversion, croppers, scalers, video mixing/picture in picture filters, rotate filter, virtual mic, and many more. Code is released under BSD license with exception of H.264 codec related classes which are released under LGPL.
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    x264 on win32 w/ DirecShow input and fully variable-framerate support.
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    blackvideo-mini-player

    blackvideo-mini-player

    A standalone lightweight auxiliary CLI video player for BlackVideo.

    Lightweight cross-platform video player (Ada + SDL2 + FFmpeg). Support player for the BlackVideo. Works standalone via CLI or right-click on any video file. Usage Method 1 — Command Line Step 1. Unzip blackvideo-mini-player-v2.3.0.win.zip Step 2. Open the build\ folder, then type cmd directly in the address bar and press Enter — this opens a terminal already in that folder. Alternatively: open Command Prompt anywhere and use cd with the copied path: cd "C:\path\to\blackvideo-mini-player\build" Step 3. Run the player: blackvideo-player.exe "C:\Users\You\Videos\movie.mp4" Method 2 — Right-Click (Recommended) Step 1. Unzip blackvideo-mini-player-v2.3.0.win.zip Step 2. Right-click tools\context_menu\install_context_menu.bat → Run as administrator That's it. Now: Right-click any video file in Explorer Click Open with BlackVideo Player The video plays immediately To remove the right-click entry: tools\context_menu\uninstall_context_menu.bat
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    This is a program with one, specific purpose: to provide the ability to demux ALL of the streams in any number of Matroska container (mkv) files automatically.
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    YouTube Video Converter / Transcoder

    YouTube Video Converter / Transcoder

    Converts various video formats into H264 / mp4 format for YouTube

    This video transcoder converts various video formats into High quality H.264 or mp4 format which is specially optimized for YouTube channel. This application will help you to achieve the recommended upload encoding settings by YouTube. Thus, making your video look flawless on your YouTube channel. Additionally its audio section helps you to extract audio files out of various audio and video formats. It supports exporting audio files into various audio formats namely, FLAC, MP3, WAV, OGG, WV and AAC formats. How to run application ? 1. Extract the zip file and open the folder 2. Run "YouTubeVideoTranscoder"
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    Bitrate calculator

    Bitrate calculator

    Bitrate calculator GPL by philippe734

    Bitrate calculator free and open source GNU/GPL by philippe734. Inspired from the bitrate calculator of MeGUI but in a stand alone version. No need MeGUI and no need microsoft framework. Developped by philippe734, author of VPN Lifeguard.
    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.
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    Ampare Webcam Tools

    Ampare Webcam Tools

    A Simple Fun Easy to Use Webcam Tools to take picture and record video

    Ampare Webcam Tools is a free simple easy to use webcam software tools to take picture and record video . Known Bugs : Video Codec not found. Our Software using Windows DivX Codec. If not found you have to install software and driver. Requirement .NETFramework 3.5
    Downloads: 2 This Week
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    HAX264 is a Microsoft Windows DirectShow Video Transform Filter for decoding H264(AVC) video.
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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: 1 This Week
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