a52dec

library for decoding ATSC A/52 streams used in DVD

aalib

A ASCII-Graphics Library

adplug

A free, cross-platform, hardware independent AdLib sound player library

aften

An A/52 (AC-3) audio encoder

akode

A simple framework to decode the most common audio formats.

aldumb

Allegro support for DUMB (an IT, XM, S3M, and MOD player library)

allegro

cross-platform multimedia library

allegrogl

A library to mix OpenGL graphics with Allegro routines

alsa-lib

Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Library

alsa-oss

Advanced Linux Sound Architecture OSS compatibility layer.

amanith

OpenSource C++ CrossPlatform framework designed for 2d & 3d vector graphics

amd64codecs

64-bit binary codecs for video and audio playback support

amrnb

Wrapper library for 3GPP Adaptive Multi-Rate Floating-point Speech Codec

amrwb

Wrapper library for 3GPP Adaptive Multi-Rate Wideband Floating-point Speech Codec

atlas-c++

Atlas protocol, used in role playing games at worldforge.

aubio

Library for audio labelling

audiofile

An elegant API for accessing audio files

bio2jack

A library for porting blocked I/O OSS/ALSA audio applications to JACK

blib

blib is a library full of useful things to hack the Blinkenlights

cal3d

Cal3D is a skeletal based character animation library

capseo

Capseo Video Codec Library

clibpdf

ANSI C Library for Direct PDF Generation

coin

Coin3D is a high-level 3D graphics toolkit, fully compatible with SGI Open Inventor 2.1.

compface

Utilities and library to convert to/from X-Face format

ctl

AMPAS' Color Transformation Language

devil

DevIL image library

dssi

Plugin API for software instruments with user interfaces

dumb

IT/XM/S3M/MOD player library with click removal and IT filters

esdl

Erlang bindings for the SDL library

exiftool

Read and write meta information from EXIF

faac

Free MPEG-4 audio codecs by AudioCoding.com

faad2

AAC audio decoding library

farsight

FarSight is an audio/video conferencing framework specifically designed for Instant Messengers.

flac

free lossless audio encoder and decoder

fluidsynth-dssi

DSSI Soft Synth Interface

fmod

music and sound effects library, and a sound processing system

fnlib

Font Library

fontconfig

A library for configuring and customizing font access

freealut

The OpenAL Utility Toolkit

freeglut

A completely OpenSourced alternative to the OpenGL Utility Toolkit (GLUT) library

freeimage

Image library supporting many formats

freetype

TTF-Library

ftgl

library to use arbitrary fonts in OpenGL applications

FusionSound

Audio sub system for multiple applications

gavl

library for handling uncompressed audio and video data

gd

A graphics library for fast image creation

giblib

Giblib, graphics library

giflib

Library to handle, display and manipulate GIF images

gle

GL extrusion library

glew

The OpenGL Extension Wrangler Library

glfw

The Portable OpenGL FrameWork

glide-v3

Hardware support for 3dfx Voodoo cards

glitz

An OpenGL image compositing library

glut

The OpenGL Utility Toolkit (GLUT)

gmyth

GObject based library to access mythtv backends

gnonlin

Gnonlin is a set of GStreamer elements to ease the creation of non-linear multimedia editors.

gst-plugins-bad

Unmaintained plugins for GStreamer

gst-plugins-base

Basepack of plugins for gstreamer

gst-plugins-good

Basepack of plugins for gstreamer

gst-plugins-ugly

Basepack of plugins for gstreamer

gstreamer

Streaming media framework

guilib

a simple widget set for SDL

hamlib

Ham radio backend rig control libraries

id3lib

Id3 library for C/C++

ilmbase

OpenEXR ILM Base libraries

imlib

Image loading and rendering library

imlib2

Version 2 of an advanced replacement library for libraries like libXpm

jasper

software-based implementation of the codec specified in the emerging JPEG-2000 Part-1 standard

jbigkit

highly effective data compression algorithm for bi-level high-resolution images such as fax pages or scanned documents

jpeg

Library to load, handle and manipulate images in the JPEG format

jpgalleg

The jpeg loading routines are able to load almost any JPG image file with Allegro.

ladcca

Linux Audio Developer's Configuration and Connection API (LADCCA)

ladspa-cmt

CMT (computer music toolkit) Lasdpa library plugins

ladspa-sdk

The Linux Audio Developer's Simple Plugin API

lcms

A lightweight, speed optimized color management engine

lib3ds

overall software library for managing 3D-Studio Release 3 and 4 .3DS files

libafterimage

Afterstep's standalone generic image manipulation library

libao

the audio output library

libart_lgpl

a LGPL version of libart

libcaca

A library that creates colored ASCII-art graphics

libcaptury

Captury Framework Library

libcdaudio

Library of cd audio related routines

libcddb

A library for accessing a CDDB server

libclalsadrv

An audio library by Fons Adriaensen <fons.adriaensen@skynet.be>

libclthreads

An audio library by Fons Adriaensen <fons.adriaensen@skynet.be>

libclxclient

An audio library by Fons Adriaensen <fons.adriaensen@skynet.be>

libdc1394

libdc1394 is a library that is intended to provide a high level programming interface for application developers who wish to control IEEE 1394 based cameras that conform to the 1394-based Digital Camera Specification (found at http://www.1394ta.org/)

libdca

library for decoding DTS Coherent Acoustics streams used in DVD

libdiscid

Client library to create MusicBrainz enabled tagging applications

libdjconsole

A driver for the DJ Console, built on top of libusb

libdsp

C++ class library of common digital signal processing functions.

libdv

Software codec for dv-format video (camcorders etc)

libdvb

libdvb package with added CAM library and libdvbmpegtools as well as dvb-mpegtools

libdvbpsi

library for MPEG TS/DVB PSI tables decoding and generation

libdvdcss

A portable abstraction library for DVD decryption

libdvdnav

Library for DVD navigation tools

libdvdplay

A simple library designed for DVD-menu navigation

libdvdread

Provides a simple foundation for reading DVD-Video images.

libemf

Library implementation of ECMA-234 API for the generation of enhanced metafiles.

libexif

Library for parsing, editing, and saving EXIF data

libexif-gtk

GTK+ frontend to the libexif library (parsing, editing, and saving EXIF data)

libextractor

A simple library for keyword extraction

libfame

MPEG-1 and MPEG-4 video encoding library

libfishsound

Simple programming interface for decoding and encoding audio data using Xiph.Org codecs (Vorbis and Speex)

libflash

A library for flash animations

libfpx

A library for manipulating FlashPIX images

libggi

Fast and safe graphics and drivers for about any graphics card to the Linux kernel (sometimes)

libggigcp

Library for General Graphics Interface

libggimisc

Library for General Graphics Interface

libggiwmh

Library for General Graphics Interface

libgig

a C++ library for loading Gigasampler files and DLS (Downloadable Sounds) Level 1/2 files.

libgii

Fast and safe graphics and drivers for about any graphics card to the Linux kernel (sometimes)

libgiigic

Library for General Graphics Interface

libgphoto2

Library that implements support for numerous digital cameras

libgpod

Shared library to access the contents of an iPod

libid3tag

The MAD id3tag library

libiec61883

library for capturing video (dv or mpeg2) over the IEEE 1394 bus

libifp

A general-purpose library-driver for iRiver's iFP portable audio players.

libipod

lightweight and fast library written in C for managing Apple iPods

libipoddevice

device-specific layer for the Apple iPod

libiptcdata

library for manipulating the International Press Telecommunications Council (IPTC) metadata

libirman

library for Irman control of Unix software

libj2k

Lib for Yahoo webcam support in gaim-vv

libjackasyn

An application/library for connecting OSS apps to Jackit.

libjsw

provide a uniform API and user configuration for joysticks and game controllers

libkarma

Support library for using Rio devices with mtp

libkdcraw

KDE Image Plugin Interface: an dcraw library wrapper

libkexif

A KDE library for loss-less EXIF operations.

libkexiv2

KDE Image Plugin Interface: an exiv2 library wrapper

libkipi

A library for image plugins accross KDE applications.

liblingoteach

A library to support lingoteach-ui and for generic lesson development.

liblo

Lightweight OSC (Open Sound Control) implementation

liblrdf

A library for the manipulation of RDF file in LADSPA plugins

liblscp

a C++ library for the Linux Sampler control protocol.

libmad

"M"peg "A"udio "D"ecoder library

libmatroska

Extensible multimedia container format based on EBML

libmikmod

A library to play a wide range of module formats

libmimic

Video encoding/decoding library for the codec used by msn

libmms

Common library for accessing Microsoft Media Server (MMS) media streaming protocol

libmng

Multiple Image Networkgraphics lib (animated png's)

libmnote

libmnote is a library for parsing, editing, and saving MakerNote-EXIF-tags.

libmodplug

Library for playing MOD-like music files

libmovtar

Movtar tools and library for MJPEG video

libmp4v2

libmp4v2 extracted from mpeg4ip

libmpcdec

Musepack decoder library

libmpd

A library handling connection to a MPD server.

libmpeg2

library for decoding mpeg-2 and mpeg-1 video

libmpeg3

An mpeg library for linux

libmtp

An implementation of Microsoft's Media Transfer Protocol (MTP).

libnjb

libnjb is a C library and API for communicating with the Creative Nomad JukeBox digital audio player under BSD and Linux.

libnut

Library and tools to create NUT multimedia files

libofa

Open Fingerprint Architecture

libogg

the Ogg media file format library

liboggz

Oggz provides a simple programming interface for reading and writing Ogg files and streams

libopendaap

libopendaap is a library which enables applications to discover and connect to iTunes(R) music shares

libopenraw

Decoding library for RAW image formats

libpano12

Helmut Dersch's panorama toolbox library

libpixman

A generic library for manipulating pixel regions

libpng

Portable Network Graphics library

libprojectm

A graphical music visualization plugin similar to milkdrop

libptp2

Library and client for communicating with PTP enabled devices (e.g. digital photo cameras).

libquicktime

A library based on quicktime4linux with extensions

libsamplerate

Secret Rabbit Code (aka libsamplerate) is a Sample Rate Converter for audio

libsdl

Simple Direct Media Layer

libshout

libshout is a library for connecting and sending data to icecast servers.

libsidplay

C64 SID player library

libsndfile

A C library for reading and writing files containing sampled sound

libsoundtouch

Audio processing library for changing tempo, pitch and playback rates.

libspiff

Library for XSPF playlist reading and writing

libsupertone

A library for supervisory tone generation and detection

libsvg

A parser for SVG content in files or buffers

libswf

A library for flash movies

libtheora

The Theora Video Compression Codec

libtimidity

MIDI to WAVE converter library

libuninameslist

Library of unicode annotation data

libvisual

Libvisual is an abstraction library that comes between applications and audio visualisation plugins.

libvorbis

the Ogg Vorbis sound file format library

libwmf

library for converting WMF files

libxtract

A simple, portable, lightweight library of audio feature extraction functions

libzzub

Music tracking and sequencing library compatible to Jesokla Buzz

loadpng

load and save PNG files in Allegro programs

lv2core

LV2 is a simple but extensible successor of LADSPA

mediastreamer

library to make audio and video real-time streaming and processing

mesa

OpenGL-like graphic library for Linux

ming

An Open Source library for Flash movie generation.

mlt

MLT is an open source multimedia framework, designed and developed for television broadcasting

mlt++

Various bindings for mlt

mpeg-lib

A lib for MPEG-1 video

musicbrainz

Client library to access metadata of mp3/vorbis/CD media

mutagen

Mutagen is an audio metadata tag reader and writer implemented in pure Python.

nas

Network Audio System

netpbm

A set of utilities for converting to/from the netpbm (and related) formats

ofbis

a library containing a few simple graphical routines for the Linux framebuffers.

openal

an open, vendor-neutral, cross-platform API for interactive, primarily spatialized audio

openexr

ILM's HDR image file format libraries

openexr_ctl

OpenEXR CTL libraries

openinventor

SGI OpenInventor Toolkit and Utilities

openjpeg

An open-source JPEG 2000 codec written in C

osalp

Open Source Audio Library Project

pablio

A blocking I/O library for portaudio.

panda3d

A 3D framework in C++ with python bindings

paragui

A cross-platform high-level application framework and GUI library

pdflib

A library for generating PDF on the fly.

phat

PHAT is a collection of GTK+ widgets geared toward pro-audio apps.

plib

multimedia library used by many games

ploticus

A command line application for producing graphs and charts

plotutils

a powerful C/C++ function library for exporting 2-D vector graphics

portaudio

An open-source cross platform audio API.

qhull

Geometry library

quesoglc

A free implementation of the OpenGL Character Renderer (GLC)

raptor

The RDF Parser Toolkit

resid

C++ library to emulate the C64 SID chip

rte

Real Time Encoder

rubberband

An audio time-stretching and pitch-shifting library and utility program

schroedinger

C-based libraries and GStreamer plugins for the Dirac video codec

sdif

The Sound Description Interchange Format Library is a library that deals with audio and wave processing.

sdl-flic

FLIC animation file loading library

sdl-gfx

Graphics drawing primitives library for SDL

sdl-gui

Graphical User Interface library that utilizes SDL

sdl-image

image file loading library

sdl-mixer

Simple Direct Media Layer Mixer Library

sdl-net

Simple Direct Media Layer Network Support Library

sdl-pango

connect the text rendering engine of GNOME to SDL

sdl-sound

A library that handles the decoding of sound file formats

sdl-terminal

library that provides a pseudo-ansi color terminal that can be used with any SDL application

sdl-ttf

library that allows you to use TrueType fonts in SDL applications

sdlmm

A C++ Wrapper for the Simple DirectMedia Layer

sge

Graphics extensions library for SDL

skstream

FreeSockets - Portable C++ classes for IP (sockets) applications

slv2

A library to make the use of LV2 plugins as simple as possible for applications

smjpeg

SDL Motion JPEG Library

smpeg

SDL MPEG Player Library

SoGtk

A Gtk Interface for coin

SoQt

A Qt Interface for coin

spandsp

SpanDSP is a library of DSP functions for telephony.

speex

Speech encoding library

stimg

Simple and tiny image loading library

stops

Organ stops for aeolus by Fons Adriaensen <fons.adriaensen@skynet.be>

svgalib

A library for running svga graphics on the console

swfdec

Macromedia Flash decoding library

t1lib

A Type 1 Font Rasterizer Library for UNIX/X11

taglib

A library for reading and editing audio meta data

tiff

Library for manipulation of TIFF (Tag Image File Format) images

tse3

TSE3 Sequencer library

tunepimp

TunePimp is a library to create MusicBrainz enabled tagging applications.

ufo

A platform and device independent core library for GUIs

urt

the Utah Raster Toolkit is a library for dealing with raster images

vamp-plugin-sdk

Audio processing plugin system for plugins that extract descriptive information from audio data

varconf

A configuration system designed for the STAGE server.

vflib

Japanese Vector Font library

vgui

V is a free portable C++ GUI Framework

vigra

Vision with Generic Algorithms

vips

VIPS Image Processing Library

win32codecs

Win32 binary codecs for video and audio playback support

wxsvg

C++ library to create, manipulate and render SVG files.

x264

A free library for encoding X264/AVC streams

xine-lib

Core libraries for Xine movie player

xvid

XviD, a high performance/quality MPEG-4 video de-/encoding solution.

yiff

high performance and stable sound server for UNIX games and apps

zvbi

VBI Decoding Library for Zapping

a52dec

libdca

libuninameslist

aalib

libdiscid

libvisual

adplug

libdjconsole

libvorbis

aften

libdsp

libwmf

akode

libdv

libxtract

aldumb

libdvb

libzzub

allegro

libdvbpsi

loadpng

allegrogl

libdvdcss

lv2core

alsa-lib

libdvdnav

mediastreamer

alsa-oss

libdvdplay

mesa

amanith

libdvdread

ming

amd64codecs

libemf

mlt

amrnb

libexif

mlt++

amrwb

libexif-gtk

mpeg-lib

atlas-c++

libextractor

musicbrainz

aubio

libfame

mutagen

audiofile

libfishsound

nas

bio2jack

libflash

netpbm

blib

libfpx

ofbis

cal3d

libggi

openal

capseo

libggigcp

openexr

clibpdf

libggimisc

openexr_ctl

coin

libggiwmh

openinventor

compface

libgig

openjpeg

ctl

libgii

osalp

devil

libgiigic

pablio

dssi

libgphoto2

panda3d

dumb

libgpod

paragui

esdl

libid3tag

pdflib

exiftool

libiec61883

phat

faac

libifp

plib

faad2

libipod

ploticus

farsight

libipoddevice

plotutils

flac

libiptcdata

portaudio

fluidsynth-dssi

libirman

qhull

fmod

libj2k

quesoglc

fnlib

libjackasyn

raptor

fontconfig

libjsw

resid

freealut

libkarma

rte

freeglut

libkdcraw

rubberband

freeimage

libkexif

schroedinger

freetype

libkexiv2

sdif

ftgl

libkipi

sdl-flic

FusionSound

liblingoteach

sdl-gfx

gavl

liblo

sdl-gui

gd

liblrdf

sdl-image

giblib

liblscp

sdl-mixer

giflib

libmad

sdl-net

gle

libmatroska

sdl-pango

glew

libmikmod

sdl-sound

glfw

libmimic

sdl-terminal

glide-v3

libmms

sdl-ttf

glitz

libmng

sdlmm

glut

libmnote

sge

gmyth

libmodplug

skstream

gnonlin

libmovtar

slv2

gst-plugins-bad

libmp4v2

smjpeg

gst-plugins-base

libmpcdec

smpeg

gst-plugins-good

libmpd

SoGtk

gst-plugins-ugly

libmpeg2

SoQt

gstreamer

libmpeg3

spandsp

guilib

libmtp

speex

hamlib

libnjb

stimg

id3lib

libnut

stops

ilmbase

libofa

svgalib

imlib

libogg

swfdec

imlib2

liboggz

t1lib

jasper

libopendaap

taglib

jbigkit

libopenraw

tiff

jpeg

libpano12

tse3

jpgalleg

libpixman

tunepimp

ladcca

libpng

ufo

ladspa-cmt

libprojectm

urt

ladspa-sdk

libptp2

vamp-plugin-sdk

lcms

libquicktime

varconf

lib3ds

libsamplerate

vflib

libafterimage

libsdl

vgui

libao

libshout

vigra

libart_lgpl

libsidplay

vips

libcaca

libsndfile

win32codecs

libcaptury

libsoundtouch

wxsvg

libcdaudio

libspiff

x264

libcddb

libsupertone

xine-lib

libclalsadrv

libsvg

xvid

libclthreads

libswf

yiff

libclxclient

libtheora

zvbi

libdc1394

libtimidity