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

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.

alure

The OpenAL Utility Toolkit

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

babl

A dynamic, any to any, pixel format conversion library

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

celt

CELT is a very low delay audio codec designed for high-quality communications.

clutter

Clutter is a library for creating graphical user interfaces

clutter-gst

GStreamer Integration library for Clutter

clutter-gtk

Clutter-GTK - GTK+ Integration library for Clutter

coin

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

exempi

Exempi is a port of the Adobe XMP SDK to work on UNIX

exiftool

Read and write meta information in image, audio and video files

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

freetype

Freetype font rendering engine

freeverb3

High Quality Reverb and Impulse Response Convolution library including XMMS/Audacious Effect plugins

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

gegl

A graph based image processing framework

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

glpng

An OpenGL png image library

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

Less 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

iulib

easy-to-use image and video I/O functions

jasper

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

jbigkit

data compression algorithm for bi-level high-resolution images

jpeg

library to load, handle and manipulate images in the JPEG format (transition package)

jpgalleg

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

ladspa-cmt

CMT (computer music toolkit) Lasdpa library plugins

ladspa-sdk

The Linux Audio Developer's Simple Plugin API

lasi

C++ library for postscript stream output

lastfmlib

C++ library to scrobble tracks on Last.fm

lcms

A lightweight, speed optimized color management engine

lensfun

lensfun: A library for rectifying and simulating photographic lens distortions

lib3ds

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

libass

Library for SSA/ASS subtitles rendering

libbs2b

Bauer stereophonic-to-binaural DSP library

libcaca

A library that creates colored ASCII-art graphics

libcanberra

Portable Sound Event Library

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>

libcue

CUE Sheet Parser Library

libcuefile

Cue File library from Musepack

libdc1394

Library to interface with IEEE 1394 cameras following the IIDC specification

libdca

library for decoding DTS Coherent Acoustics streams used in DVD

libdecodeqr

libdecodeqr is a C/C++ library for decoding QR code based on JIS X 0510 and ISO/IEC18004.

libdiscid

Client library to create MusicBrainz enabled tagging applications

libdjconsole

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

libdlna

A reference open-source implementation of DLNA (Digital Living Network Alliance) standards.

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 vorbis or 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

libharu

C/C++ library for PDF generation

libicns

A library for the translation of the icns format

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

libkate

Codec for karaoke and text encapsulation for Ogg

liblastfm

Collection of libraries to integrate Last.fm services

liblingoteach

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

liblo

Lightweight OSC (Open Sound Control) implementation

liblqr

An easy to use C/C++ seam carving library

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

libmp3splt

a library for mp3splt to split mp3 and ogg files without decoding.

libmp4v2

Functions for accessing ISO-IEC:14496-1:2001 MPEG-4 standard

libmpd

A library handling connections to a MPD server

libmpdclient

A library for interfacing Music Player Daemon (media-sound/mpd)

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

a C library and API for communicating with the Creative Nomad JukeBox digital audio player.

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

libpano13

Helmut Dersch's panorama toolbox library

libpgf

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

libpng

Portable Network Graphics library

libpqstego

Library for Perturbed Quantization Steganography

libprojectm

A graphical music visualization plugin similar to milkdrop

libprojectm-qt

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

libreplaygain

Replay Gain library from Musepack

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.

libsvg

A parser for SVG content in files or buffers

libswf

A library for flash movies

libtheora

The Theora Video Compression Codec

libtiger

A rendering library for Kate streams using Pango and Cairo

libtimidity

MIDI to WAVE converter library

libuninameslist

Library of unicode annotation data

libv4l

V4L userspace libraries

libvisual

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

libvorbis

The Ogg Vorbis sound file format library with aoTuV patch

libwmf

library for converting WMF files

libwpg

C++ library to read and parse graphics in WPG

libxspf

Playlist handling library

libxtract

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

lv2core

LV2 is a simple but extensible successor of LADSPA

mediastreamer

Mediastreaming library for telephony application

mesa

OpenGL-like graphic library for Linux

ming

An Open Source library for Flash movie generation.

mlt

An open source multimedia framework, designed and developed for television broadcasting

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

openal

A software implementation of the OpenAL 3D audio API

opencore-amr

Implementation of Adaptive Multi Rate Narrowband and Wideband speech codec

opencv

A collection of algorithms and sample code for various computer vision problems.

openexr

ILM's OpenEXR high dynamic-range image file format libraries

openexr_ctl

OpenEXR CTL libraries

opengl-apple

openinventor

SGI OpenInventor Toolkit and Utilities

openjpeg

An open-source JPEG 2000 codec written in C

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

quarter

A glue between Nokia Qt4 and Coin3D

quesoglc

A free implementation of the OpenGL Character Renderer (GLC)

quvi

library for parsing video download links

raptor

The RDF Parser Toolkit

raul

C++ utility library primarily aimed at audio/musical applications.

realcodecs

Real Player audio and video binary codecs

resid

C++ library to emulate the C64 SID chip

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

silgraphite

Rendering engine for complex non-Roman writing systems

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

smpeg

SDL MPEG Player Library

SoQt

The glue between Coin3D and Qt

spandsp

SpanDSP is a library of DSP functions for telephony.

speex

Audio compression format designed for speech.

stimg

Simple and tiny image loading library

stk

Synthesis ToolKit in C++

stops

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

sublib

SubLib is a library that eases the development of subtitling applications. It supports the most common text-based subtitle formats and allows for subtitle editing, conversion and synchronization.

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

taglib-extras

Unofficial taglib plugins maintained by the Amarok team

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.

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

vigra

C++ computer vision library with emphasize on customizable algorithms and data structures

vips

VIPS Image Processing Library

volpack

Volume rendering library

win32codecs

Windows 32-bit 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

libcddb

libswf

aalib

libclalsadrv

libtheora

adplug

libclthreads

libtiger

aften

libclxclient

libtimidity

aldumb

libcue

libuninameslist

allegro

libcuefile

libv4l

allegrogl

libdc1394

libvisual

alsa-lib

libdca

libvorbis

alsa-oss

libdecodeqr

libwmf

alure

libdiscid

libwpg

amanith

libdjconsole

libxspf

amd64codecs

libdlna

libxtract

amrnb

libdv

lv2core

amrwb

libdvb

mediastreamer

atlas-c++

libdvbpsi

mesa

aubio

libdvdcss

ming

audiofile

libdvdnav

mlt

babl

libdvdplay

musicbrainz

bio2jack

libdvdread

mutagen

blib

libemf

nas

cal3d

libexif

netpbm

capseo

libexif-gtk

openal

celt

libextractor

opencore-amr

clutter

libfame

opencv

clutter-gst

libfishsound

openexr

clutter-gtk

libflash

openexr_ctl

coin

libfpx

opengl-apple

compface

libggi

openinventor

ctl

libggigcp

openjpeg

devil

libggimisc

panda3d

dssi

libggiwmh

paragui

dumb

libgig

pdflib

esdl

libgii

phat

exempi

libgiigic

plib

exiftool

libgphoto2

ploticus

faac

libgpod

plotutils

faad2

libharu

portaudio

farsight

libicns

qhull

flac

libid3tag

quarter

fluidsynth-dssi

libiec61883

quesoglc

fmod

libifp

quvi

fnlib

libipod

raptor

fontconfig

libipoddevice

raul

freealut

libiptcdata

realcodecs

freeglut

libirman

resid

freetype

libj2k

rubberband

freeverb3

libjackasyn

schroedinger

ftgl

libjsw

sdif

FusionSound

libkarma

sdl-flic

gavl

libkate

sdl-gfx

gd

liblastfm

sdl-gui

gegl

liblingoteach

sdl-image

giblib

liblo

sdl-mixer

giflib

liblqr

sdl-net

gle

liblrdf

sdl-pango

glew

liblscp

sdl-sound

glfw

libmad

sdl-terminal

glide-v3

libmatroska

sdl-ttf

glitz

libmikmod

sdlmm

glpng

libmimic

sge

gmyth

libmms

silgraphite

gnonlin

libmng

skstream

gst-plugins-bad

libmnote

slv2

gst-plugins-base

libmodplug

smpeg

gst-plugins-good

libmp3splt

SoQt

gst-plugins-ugly

libmp4v2

spandsp

gstreamer

libmpd

speex

guilib

libmpdclient

stimg

hamlib

libmpeg2

stk

id3lib

libmpeg3

stops

ilmbase

libmtp

sublib

imlib

libnjb

svgalib

imlib2

libnut

swfdec

iulib

libofa

t1lib

jasper

libogg

taglib

jbigkit

liboggz

taglib-extras

jpeg

libopendaap

tiff

jpgalleg

libopenraw

tse3

ladspa-cmt

libpano13

tunepimp

ladspa-sdk

libpgf

urt

lasi

libpng

vamp-plugin-sdk

lastfmlib

libpqstego

varconf

lcms

libprojectm

vflib

lensfun

libprojectm-qt

vigra

lib3ds

libptp2

vips

libafterimage

libquicktime

volpack

libao

libreplaygain

win32codecs

libart_lgpl

libsamplerate

wxsvg

libass

libsdl

x264

libbs2b

libshout

xine-lib

libcaca

libsidplay

xvid

libcanberra

libsndfile

yiff

libcaptury

libsoundtouch

zvbi

libcdaudio

libsvg