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Multimedia Libraries

Libraries that provide low-level access to multimedia hardware—handling graphics, audio, input, and related functionality—for game and interactive application development.

32 projects

22,345 contributors

$462M

Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL)

Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL) is a cross-platform development library designed to provide low level access to audio, keyboard, mouse, joystick, and graphics hardware via OpenGL and Direct3D. It is used by video playback software, emulators, and games.

Contributors

4,131

Organizations

732

Software value

$26M

Pygame

🐍🎮 pygame (the library) is a Free and Open Source python programming language library for making multimedia applications like games built on top of the excellent SDL library. C, Python, Native, OpenGL.

Contributors

2,601

Organizations

321

Software value

$5.7M

GStreamer

GStreamer open-source multimedia framework

Contributors

2,490

Organizations

274

Software value

$128M

Qt Base

Qt Base is a core component of the Qt framework, providing essential functionality for cross-platform application development. It includes fundamental classes and modules for GUI programming, networking, file I/O, and platform abstraction, serving as the foundation for Qt-based software development.

Contributors

2,358

Organizations

201

Software value

$195M

AndroidX Media

Jetpack Media3 support libraries for media use cases, including ExoPlayer, an extensible media player for Android

Contributors

2,208

Organizations

175

Software value

$24M

SFML

Simple and Fast Multimedia Library

Contributors

1,656

Organizations

330

Software value

$9.7M

JUCE

JUCE is an open-source cross-platform C++ application framework for desktop and mobile applications, including VST, VST3, AU, AUv3, LV2 and AAX audio plug-ins.

Contributors

906

Organizations

208

Software value

$45M

OpenAL Soft

OpenAL Soft is a software implementation of the OpenAL 3D audio API.

Contributors

871

Organizations

183

Software value

$4.3M

ImageIO

Python library for reading and writing image data

Contributors

677

Organizations

199

Software value

$1.2M

Libva

Libva is an implementation for VA-API (Video Acceleration API)

Contributors

677

Organizations

116

Software value

$661K

Rodio

Rust audio playback library

Contributors

637

Organizations

173

Software value

$400K

FluidSynth

Software synthesizer based on the SoundFont 2 specifications

Contributors

614

Organizations

135

Software value

$3.5M

TagLib

TagLib Audio Meta-Data Library

Contributors

581

Organizations

133

Software value

$1.5M

PortAudio

PortAudio is a cross-platform, open-source C language library for real-time audio input and output.

Contributors

461

Organizations

108

Software value

$5.2M

ALSA Utils

The Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) - library

Contributors

422

Organizations

112

Software value

$1.7M

libavif

libavif - Library for encoding and decoding .avif files

Contributors

414

Organizations

102

Software value

$1.7M

SDL_ttf

Support for TrueType (.ttf) font files with Simple Directmedia Layer.

Contributors

296

Organizations

64

Software value

$2.9M

SDL_image

Image decoding for many popular formats for Simple Directmedia Layer.

Contributors

274

Organizations

63

Software value

$4M

VapourSynth

VapourSynth is a video processing framework that provides a scripting interface for video editing and manipulation. It allows for frame-accurate video processing with features like filtering, encoding, and format conversion through a Python-based scripting system.

Contributors

71

Organizations

7

Software value

$2M

AcademySoftwareFoundation/OpenColorIO

A color management framework for visual effects and animation.

This project hasn't been onboarded to LFX Insights.

FFmpeg

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

This project hasn't been onboarded to LFX Insights.

Lightweight Java Game Library (LWJGL)

LWJGL is a Java library that enables cross-platform access to popular native APIs useful in the development of graphics (OpenGL, Vulkan, bgfx), audio (OpenAL, Opus), parallel computing (OpenCL, CUDA) and XR (OpenVR, LibOVR, OpenXR) applications.

This project hasn't been onboarded to LFX Insights.

Lime

A foundational Haxe framework for cross-platform development

This project hasn't been onboarded to LFX Insights.

MLT Framework

MLT Multimedia Framework

This project hasn't been onboarded to LFX Insights.

MPP

Media Process Platform (MPP) module

This project hasn't been onboarded to LFX Insights.

PipeWire

Mirror of the PipeWire repository (see https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/)

This project hasn't been onboarded to LFX Insights.

iPlug2

C++ Audio Plug-in Framework for desktop, mobile and web

This project hasn't been onboarded to LFX Insights.

pyglet

pyglet is a cross-platform windowing and multimedia library for Python, for developing games and other visually rich applications.

This project hasn't been onboarded to LFX Insights.
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