Open Source C Video Converters

libjpeg-turbo is a JPEG image codec that uses SIMD instructions (MMX, SSE2, NEON, AltiVec) to accelerate baseline JPEG compression and decompression on x86, x86-64, ARM, and PowerPC systems. On such systems, libjpeg-turbo is generally 2-6x as fast as libjpeg, all else being equal. On other types of systems, libjpeg-turbo can still outperform libjpeg by a significant amount, by virtue of its highly-optimized Huffman coding routines. In many cases, the performance of libjpeg-turbo rivals that of proprietary high-speed JPEG codecs. libjpeg-turbo implements both the traditional libjpeg API as well as the less powerful but more straightforward TurboJPEG API. libjpeg-turbo also features colorspace extensions that allow it to compress from/decompress to 32-bit and big-endian pixel buffers (RGBX, XBGR, etc.), as well as a full-featured Java interface.

GraphicsMagick provides a set of commandline tools and programming APIs for manipulating, editing, and converting raster and vector images. It is derived from ImageMagick, with the objective of providing better stability and performance than ImageMagick while retaining the original MIT/X11 license.

Create data discs with advanced data settings. Create video and audio discs, Burn will convert if needed. Create DVD-Video discs. Recreate discs. Burn doesn't reinvent the wheel, it uses many powerful open source Unix utilities and is also open source.

Vidiot is a non-linear video editor targeted for home video editing. It supports compositing (scaling/rotating/positioning), cropping, changing speed, adding transitions and titles, trimming, key frames, etc.

Binary builds of MPlayer/MEncoder for win32/win64, FFmpeg MinGW related packages and MinGW-w64 toolchains

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. Capture supports MJPEG hardware (Buz,DC10+ etc). and V4l2 devices.

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.

A set of tools to help you generate DVD files to be played back on a standalone DVD player.

The one-click zero-conf video/audio converter/transcoder/player inside a Windows File Explorer mouse context menu. H265/HEVC codec supported. Hardware acceleration supported. Ultra-fast transcoding supported. Produces standard anywhere-playing mp4/h264/yuv420p/aac video or mp3/cbr/320k audio files by default. FFMPEG 4.2.2 command line added and can be edited for your own custom conversion. Supported video containers: *.mpg, *.mp4, *.mov, *.ts *.3gp, *.avi, *.av1, *.wmv, *.flv, *.webm, *.mkv, *.mpeg-dash and much more... Supported video codecs: H.264/AVC, HEVC/H.265, H.261, H.262, H.263, Motion JPEG, Theora, VP3, VP5, VP6, VP7, VP8, VP9, animated WebP and much more... Supported audio containers: *.mp3, *.mp1, *.mp2, *.wma, *.alac, *.ogg, *.speex, *.vorbis, *.opus, *.flac and much more... Supported audio codecs: MP3, AAC, HE-AAC, MP1, MP2, MPEG-4 ALS, WMA1, WMA2, WMA Pro and WMA Lossless, XMA, ALAC, On2 AVC and much more...

Multimedia architecture consisting of libraries and applications. Libraries include gavl for low level audio/video support and gmerlin_avdecoder, a multiformat decoding library. Applications include a GUI player with mediatree and a GUI transcoder.

A multimedia authoring and processing framework and a video playout server for television broadcasting.

OGMRip is a library providing a common API for ripping and encoding DVD into AVI/OGM/MP4/Matroska files using a wide variety of codecs. It uses mplayer, mencoder, ogmtools, oggenc and lame to perform all its operations.

OpenGLide is a Glide to OpenGL wrapper. It emulates a Voodoo board so you can run old Windows Glide games by translating Glide calls into OpenGL. The CVS code moved to https://github.com/fcbarros/openglide.

TaniDVR is a CLI tool for managing and capturing video from Linux-based OEM surveillance DVRs which use DVR-IP protocol (p: 37777/TCP). It has been tested with Intelbras DVRs and is expected to work with brands such as DVR365, Q-See, GWave and other.

DVDx 4.0 is a very easy to use audio/video encoder and a powerful DVD copier. Read DVDs and audio/video files, encode to popular video formats: (S)VCD/CVD/DVD, Xvid/Divx, MPEG-4, H.264/AVC, QuickTime, Flash Video, Ogg, WebM, AC.3, MP3, MP4/AAC etc.

LiVES mixes realtime video performance and non-linear editing in one professional quality application. It is designed to be simple to use, yet powerful. It is small in size, yet it has many advanced features. Using LiVES, you can start editing and making video right away, without having to worry about formats, frame sizes, or framerates. It is a very flexible tool which is used by both professional VJ's and video editors - mix and switch clips from the keyboard, use dozens of realtime effects, trim and edit your clips in the clip editor, and bring them together using the multitrack timeline. You can even record your performance in real time, and then edit it further or render it straight away. For the more technically minded, the application is frame and sample accurate, and it can be controlled remotely or scripted for use as a video server. And it supports all of the latest free standards.

Portable C program to convert a .TiVo file from TiVoToGo to a normal MPEG file given the MAK for the TiVo which generated the file.

The videotrans project is a set of scripts that converts a movie file in any format that mplayer understands (AVI, etc) to a DVD compatible VOB file, including all the necessary conversions. Further, an automatic DVD menu generator is provided.

Camsource is a modularized and multithreaded daemon to provide various clients with frames grabbed from a video4linux device. It uses a plugin system to make it possble to use the captured image stream for different purposes at the same time.

In the tradition of the Unix computing philosophy, here is yet another operator that does one simple task, namely the creation of an AVI MJPEG file given a list of JPEG/JFIF files.

This project contains useful software tools to create a NBTV (Narrow Band Television) video source (+audio, and optionally with color) on a classical 2-channel PC audio output. It also includes a document on a hardware example explained in details, as well as how to use software tools.

FFmpeg is an audio/video conversion tool. It includes libavcodec, the leading open source codec library. An experimental streaming server for live broadcasts is also included.

viDrop is free video transcoding software for GNU/Linux and Windows operating systems. With its help you can easily convert your favourite movies or videos into format, playable on your Smarthone, Tablet, MID, Portable Media Player etc.

pspvc (PlayStation Portable Video Converter) FFMPEG front-end to convert video files for SONY PlayStation Portable.

thoggen is a DVD backup program based on GStreamer/Gtk+. It encodes into ogg/theora video files, but additional formats (avi, matroska + mpeg4/xvid/mp2/mp3) are planned for the future. thoggen aims to provide a clean and easy to use interface.