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FFmpeg/FFmpeg

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

Stack

GitHub topics

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

Updated: 2026-06-30
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2000-12-20
History: 2 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: Disabled

61,558

stars

Forks: 13,950
Commits: 125,362 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: 2026-07-01
Lists: 6 list mentions
First commit: 2001-02-24
History: 10 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 1,127 open

35,825

stars

Forks: 3,401
Commits: 55,292 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-efficiency, 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: 2026-05-29
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2013-10-17
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 44 open

29,014

stars

Forks: 5,681
Commits: 8,941 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.

Stack

C++ Android CMake Gradle

GitHub topics

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

Updated: 2026-07-03
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2009-09-23
History: 7 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 428 open

20,914

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Forks: 6,558
Commits: 71,586 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: 2026-06-30
Lists: 5 list mentions
First commit: 1999-08-08
History: 8 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: Disabled

18,849

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Forks: 5,991
Commits: 111,113 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: 2026-05-29
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-01-28
History: 3 history points
License: Zlib
Issues: 151 open

11,940

stars

Forks: 1,896
Commits: 3,953 commits
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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: 2026-06-16
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-11-07
History: 2 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: Disabled

3,840

stars

Forks: 801
Commits: 18,252 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: 2026-06-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-04-21
History: 2 history points
License: MPL-2.0
Issues: 363 open

3,546

stars

Forks: 927
Commits: 2,004 commits
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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: 2026-06-30
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2016-02-08
History: 2 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 164 open

3,345

stars

Forks: 423
Commits: 1,173 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

AI dev

Stack

C Qt CMake vcpkg

GitHub topics

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

Updated: 2026-06-29
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2003-12-01
History: 2 history points
License: LGPL-2.1
Issues: 53 open

1,804

stars

Forks: 368
Commits: 6,714 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: 2026-06-30
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-10-08
History: 2 history points
License: LGPL-2.1
Issues: Disabled

1,793

stars

Forks: 298
Commits: 1,273 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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LargeModGames/spotatui

A fully standalone Spotify client for the terminal. Native streaming included, no daemon required.

AI dev

Stack

Rust Cargo npm

GitHub topics

#cli #multimedia #music #rust #spotify #spotify-api

Updated: 2026-07-01
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2019-08-16
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 22 open

821

stars

Forks: 45
Commits: 2,202 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: 2 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 25 open

690

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: 2 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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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: 2 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

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sdroege/gstreamer-rs

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

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#bindings #gnome #gstreamer #multimedia #rust

Updated: 2026-06-29
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-04-05
History: 2 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 0 open

591

stars

Forks: 69
Commits: 4,602 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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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: 2 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

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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: 2 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 11 open

326

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: 2 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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