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FFmpeg/FFmpeg

Mirror of https://git.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.git

Stack

GitHub topics

#audio #c #ffmpeg #fft #hevc #hls

Updated: 2026-09-17
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2000-12-20
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: Disabled

64,277

stars

Forks: 14,269
Commits: 126,625 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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mpv-player/mpv

🎥 Command line media player

Stack

C Meson PEP 517

GitHub topics

#audio #c #ffmpeg #mplayer #mpv #multimedia

Updated: 2026-09-18
Lists: 6 list mentions
First commit: 2001-02-24
History: 13 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 1,158 open

37,033

stars

Forks: 3,532
Commits: 55,496 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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ossrs/srs

SRS is a simple, high-performance, AI-driven real-time media server supporting RTMP, WebRTC, HLS, HTTP-FLV, HTTP-TS, SRT, MPEG-DASH, and GB28181, with codec support for H.264, H.265, AV1, VP9, AAC, Opus, and G.711.

AI dev

Stack

C++ CMake .NET SDK Go modules

GitHub topics

#ai-driven #audio #c-plus-plus #dash #hevc #hls

Updated: 2026-09-19
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2013-10-17
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 6 open

29,261

stars

Forks: 5,693
Commits: 8,980 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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xbmc/xbmc

Kodi is an award-winning free and open source home theater/media center software and entertainment hub for digital media. With its beautiful interface and powerful skinning engine, it's available for Android, BSD, Linux, macOS, iOS, tvOS and Windows.

AI dev

Stack

C++ Android CMake Gradle

GitHub topics

#android #c-plus-plus #entertainment-hub #hacktoberfest #home-theater #ios

Updated: 2026-09-27
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2009-09-23
History: 10 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 413 open

21,261

stars

Forks: 6,605
Commits: 73,183 commits
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Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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videolan/vlc

VLC media player - plays everything, runs anywhere. Code here: https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc

Stack

C Cargo CMake Meson

GitHub topics

#c #framework #gplv2 #lgpl #multimedia #open-source

Updated: 2026-09-19
Lists: 5 list mentions
First commit: 1999-08-08
History: 11 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: Disabled

19,684

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Forks: 6,202
Commits: 112,399 commits
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SFML/SFML

Simple and Fast Multimedia Library

Stack

C++ Android CMake Gradle

GitHub topics

#audio #c-plus-plus #cross-platform #games #graphics #hacktoberfest

Updated: 2026-10-09
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-01-28
History: 6 history points
License: Zlib
Issues: 157 open

12,059

stars

Forks: 1,914
Commits: 3,971 commits
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Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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videolan/vlc-android

VLC for Android, Android TV and ChromeOS

Stack

Kotlin Android Ktor Bundler CMake Gradle

GitHub topics

#android #libvlc #multimedia #player #videolan #vlc

Updated: 2026-09-14
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-11-07
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: Disabled

4,015

stars

Forks: 857
Commits: 18,331 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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Haivision/srt

Secure, Reliable, Transport

Stack

C++ CMake pip

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #live-streaming #low-latency #multimedia #srt #transport

Updated: 2026-09-16
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-04-21
History: 5 history points
License: MPL-2.0
Issues: 365 open

3,603

stars

Forks: 942
Commits: 2,018 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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mpv-android/mpv-android

Video player for Android based on libmpv ↦ #mpv-android @ irc.libera.chat

Stack

Kotlin Android Gradle

GitHub topics

#android-app #audio #mpv #multimedia #video #video-player

Updated: 2026-09-17
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2016-02-08
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 161 open

3,560

stars

Forks: 492
Commits: 1,206 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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mltframework/mlt

MLT Multimedia Framework

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Stack

C Qt CMake vcpkg

GitHub topics

#audio #audio-processing #c #c-plus-plus #ffmpeg #framework

Updated: 2026-09-14
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2003-12-01
History: 5 history points
License: LGPL-2.1
Issues: 52 open

1,852

stars

Forks: 387
Commits: 6,773 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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videolan/libvlcsharp

Cross-platform .NET/Mono bindings for LibVLC

Stack

C# Avalonia .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#dotnet #libvlc #libvlcsharp #multimedia #player #unity

Updated: 2026-09-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-10-08
History: 5 history points
License: LGPL-2.1
Issues: Disabled

1,810

stars

Forks: 304
Commits: 1,284 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

LargeModGames/spotatui

A fast, standalone terminal music player in Rust: native Spotify streaming plus local, Subsonic, radio, Qobuz and Youtube sources

AI dev

Stack

Rust Cargo npm

GitHub topics

#audio-visualization #cli #lyrics #mpris #multimedia #music

Updated: 2026-09-22
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2019-08-16
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 35 open

1,377

stars

Forks: 234
Commits: 2,643 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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bbc/brave

Basic Real-time AV Editor - allowing you to preview, mix, and route live audio and video streams on the cloud

Stack

Python pytest Sanic CMake Pipenv

GitHub topics

#gstreamer #live-streaming #multimedia #python #rtmp #video-handling

Updated: 2023-09-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-10-24
History: 5 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 25 open

692

stars

Forks: 147
Commits: 206 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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video-dev/video-transcoding-api

Agnostic API to transcode media assets across different cloud services.

Archived

Stack

Go gRPC Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#api #encoding #media-factory #multimedia #transcoding #video

Updated: 2023-03-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-01-19
History: 5 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 35 open

648

stars

Forks: 70
Commits: 1,221 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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sdroege/gstreamer-rs

GStreamer bindings for Rust - This repository moved to https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer-rs

AI dev

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#bindings #gnome #gstreamer #multimedia #rust

Updated: 2026-09-18
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-04-05
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 0 open

594

stars

Forks: 69
Commits: 4,648 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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swl-x/MystiQ

Qt5/C++ FFmpeg Media Converter

Stack

C++

GitHub topics

#audio #conversion #converter-encoding #cpp #ffmpeg #ffmpeg-wrapper

Updated: 2024-06-12
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-08-14
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 42 open

594

stars

Forks: 81
Commits: 551 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

snickers/snickers

:chocolate_bar: An open source alternative to the video cloud encoding services.

Archived

Stack

GitHub topics

#api #encoding #ffmpeg #multimedia #rest #video

Updated: 2019-12-30
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-06-15
History: 5 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 43 open

536

stars

Forks: 76
Commits: 411 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

ivanperez-keera/Yampa

Functional Reactive Programming domain-specific language for efficient hybrid systems

Stack

Haskell

GitHub topics

#android #frp #functional-reactive-programming #game #haskell #ios

Updated: 2026-05-16
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-03-31
History: 3 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 3 open

487

stars

Forks: 57
Commits: 1,642 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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flavioribeiro/video-thumbnail-generator

:camera: Generate thumbnail sprites from videos.

Stack

Python pip

GitHub topics

#frames #image #multimedia #photo #sprites #thumbnail-sprites

Updated: 2024-03-19
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-11-16
History: 5 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 11 open

329

stars

Forks: 68
Commits: 57 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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ilstam/FF-Multi-Converter

GUI File Format Converter

Stack

Python pip

GitHub topics

#conversions #multimedia #python

Updated: 2021-12-22
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-11-11
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 18 open

stars

Forks: 15
Commits: 668 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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