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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 is the VfW (Video for Windows) version of well known x264 encoder + ffh264 decoder (from FFmpeg/Libav project).
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MPlayer for Win32/Win64
MPlayer Mencoder FFmpeg native win32/win64 builds
Binary builds of MPlayer/MEncoder for win32/win64, FFmpeg MinGW related packages and MinGW-w64 toolchains -
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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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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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mplayer-for-windows
MPlayer & MEncoder Builds for Windows
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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** 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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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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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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FFmpeg iOS
FFmpeg libraries for iOS
This is FFmpeg libraries compiled for iOS. If you want to build it yourself, see https://github.com/kewlbear/FFmpeg-iOS-build-script. -
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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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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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video resolution upscaler
video resolution upscaler
This is a tool to change low video resolution to ultra HD video resolution (2560p) with simple usage. Run under windows or using wine if run under linux -
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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
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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H.264 Stream Editor is a re-coding application developed by TATA ELXSI LIMITED, that allows the user to edit the configuration parameters of the H.264 Bit stream files, therby obtaining a custom configured video file.
