Projects

VLC media player

claimed by VideoLAN

VLC - the cross-platform media player and streaming server VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in ... [More] unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network. [Less]

MPlayer

MPlayer is a movie player which runs on many systems and plays most known video and audio formats. Another great feature of MPlayer is the wide range of supported output drivers. It has also an onscreen display (OSD) for status information, nice big antialiased shaded subtitles and visual feedback for keyboard controls.

FFmpeg

FFmpeg is a complete solution to record, convert and stream audio and video. It includes libavcodec, the leading audio/video codec library. FFmpeg is mostly developed under Linux, but portable to operating systems, including Windows.

Totem

Totem is a media player for the GNOME desktop environment using GStreamer or xine as a backend. It also includes a browser plugin compatible with Windows Media player targeted websites, and has a plugin system itself, allowing C, Python or Vala plugins to extend Totem and add functionality.

GStreamer

GStreamer is a development framework for creating applications like media players, video editors, streaming media broadcasters and so on. It aims to support every format imaginable.

PiTiVi

PiTiVi is a video editor, built upon the GStreamer multimedia framework, GNonLin and GStreamer Editing Services. It aims to be an intuitive and flexible application that can appeal to newbies and professionals alike. Note about our code estimates: unlike most other projects, we specifically ... [More] disallow Ohloh from including the user manual, docs, translations and .ui files (generated by Glade) from being counted in the statistics (that would be cheating, and it would make it seem like Pitivi is mostly written in XML!) [Less]

libogg

Ogg is a multimedia container format, and the native file and stream format for the Xiph.org multimedia codecs. As with all Xiph.org technology is it an open format free for anyone to use. libogg is the reference library for demultiplexing and mutiplexing files in the ogg multimedia format.

xine - a free video player

xine is a free multimedia player. It plays back CDs, DVDs, and VCDs. It also decodes multimedia files like AVI, MOV, WMV, and MP3 from local disk drives, and displays multimedia streamed over the Internet. It interprets many of the most common multimedia formats available--and some of the most ... [More] uncommon formats, too. All those features come in a reusable library (xine-lib) which can easily be embedded in your applications. [Less]

MediaCoder

"MediaCoder is a free universal batch media transcoder, which nicely integrates most popular audio/video codecs and tools into an all-in-one solution. With a flexible and extendable architecture, new codecs and tools are added in constantly as well as supports for new devices. MediaCoder ... [More] intends to be the swiss army knife for media transcoding in all time." - from the Project website Supported Fomats * MP3, Vorbis, AAC, AAC+, AAC+v2, MusePack, Speex, AMR, WMA, RealAudio, mp3PRO* * FLAC, WavPack, Monkey's Audio, OptimFrog, AAC Lossless, WMA Lossless, WAV/PCM * H.264, Xvid, MPEG 1/2/4, Theora, Flash Video, Dirac, 3ivx*, RealVideo*, Windows Media Video * AVI, MPEG/VOB, Matroska, MP4, RealMedia*, ASF, Quicktime*, OGM* * CD, VCD, DVD, CUE Sheet* [Less]

Banshee

Import, organize, play, and share your music using Banshee's simple, powerful interface. Rip CDs, play and sync your iPod, create playlists, and burn audio and MP3 CDs. Most portable music devices are supported. Banshee also has support for podcasting, smart playlists, music recommendations, and much more.