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    avbuild

    ffmpeg build tool and prebuilt packages for all platforms

    iOS, android, raspberry pi, windows store, windows desktop, linux, macOS etc. Multiple toolchains support, include gcc, clang, vs2013, vs2015, vs2017. Hardware accelerated decoders and encoders support. Source code: https://github.com/wang-bin/avbuild
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    Downloads: 375 This Week
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    A fast closed captions extractor for MPEG and H264 files. Supports DVD, HDTV transport streams, Replay TV. Use this to create .srt (subtitles) files for your TV captures, have transcripts so you can edit subtitles, etc. This project has moved to its own domain: https://www.ccextractor.org Files in sourceforge are left for archival purposes, but new releases will be available from ccextractor.org.
    Downloads: 32 This Week
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    HEVC Video Extensions

    HEVC Video Extensions

    Play HEVC (H.265) encoded videos on Windows

    HEVC Video Extensions from Device Manufacturer is the official application for playing the HEVC (H.265) codec on Windows 10 and Windows 11. Microsoft offers two identical applications for playing this codec natively by hardware. The only difference between them is that one costs money and the other is free. The free one is included on new devices sold by big brands, like laptops that come with Windows pre-installed. These manufacturers don't have to pay to include the codec. Luckily, you can download the codec for free and install it on your own computer. That's what this file offers. After installing it, you can play videos and movies recorded with the HEVC (H.265) codec. Most 4K movies are recorded in this format, so with this application, you'll be able to play them using the native Windows application called Movies and TV.
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    Downloads: 150 This Week
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    Dolphin DVR Player

    Dolphin DVR Player

    One very easy-to-use powerful but totally free player for DVR videos

    Dolphin DVR Player is one very easy-to-use powerful but totally free player for DVR videos, NVR Videos, HVR videos and CCTV videos. Dolphin DVR Player is one professional H.264/H.265 video player and can play all H.264/H.265 video files smoothly. Dolphin DVR Player is also one NVR, HVR and CCTV video player, only if the video coding is H.264 or H265, the Dolphin DVR Player can detect the video coding type automatically.
    Downloads: 37 This Week
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    Lyra

    Lyra

    A Very Low-Bitrate Codec for Speech Compression

    lyra is a neural audio codec designed to deliver intelligible, natural-sounding speech at extremely low bitrates, making real-time communication viable on constrained networks. It replaces hand-engineered codecs with learned models that capture speech characteristics more efficiently and reconstruct waveforms with a neural vocoder. The system targets mobile-class hardware, balancing latency and quality so it can run in real-time on phones. Its architecture is resilient to packet loss and jitter through framing strategies and error concealment, helping conversations remain understandable under adverse conditions. The codebase includes encoder and decoder components, along with tools for data preparation and evaluation. By pushing bitrates down to just a few kilobits per second while retaining quality, lyra expands access to voice calls where bandwidth is scarce.
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    libsmacker

    libsmacker

    A C library for decoding .smk Smacker Video files

    libsmacker is a cross-platform C library which can be used for decoding Smacker Video files produced by RAD Game Tools. Smacker Video was the king of video middleware in the 1990s, and its 256-color compressed video format was used in over 2600 software titles. Please visit the Project Web site for detailed information.
    Downloads: 12 This Week
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    ** Now on Github; https://github.com/aizvorski/h264bitstream ** libh264bitstream provides a complete set of functions to read and write video bitstreams conforming to the ITU-T H.264 | ISO/IEC 14496-10 AVC video standard.
    Downloads: 3 This Week
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    OpenAVS is the open source implementaion of AVS (Advanced Coding of Audio and Video ). AVS is competing with MPEG-4 and H.264 to replace the current worldwide compression standard, MPEG-2.
    Downloads: 2 This Week
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    An implementation of the VP8 image/video codec in pure Java.
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    PlusV

    PlusV

    An Open Source alternative to SBR (Spectral band replication)

    What is PlusV? With traditional MP3, a typical Near CD Quality audio file has been encoded with a data rate of 128 kbits/s. While this is ok for people with big hard disks and fast Internet connections, this data speed has clearly been a bottleneck for people using modems or storing their music into 32 or 64 MB portable player FLASH cards. PlusV is a brand new audio compression enhancement technology that allows audio files to be compressed in as little as 64 or even 48 kbits/s. PlusV is not a compression scheme of its own, it is an extension that can be applied to existing audio formats. When combined with the MP3 technology, MP3+V files are fully compatible with existing MP3 files and decoders. To get full audio quality out of PlusV files, you just need a PlusV capable decoder, like a PlusV capable WinAmp plugin.
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    PyramidWorkshop is an image-compression System based upon the scientific work of John Robinson (inventor of BTPC) about image-compression with adaptive linear predictors and is in average more efficient than PNG/JPEG2000.
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    mod for x264gui by croma25td to use tmod Builds and others things for last tmod encoders https://github.com/jpsdr/x264/releases
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    The Bolt Player™ a free open source video player lives up to it's name by delivering fast, high definition video. The Bolt™ player delivers a true high definition picture that supports both Flash and HTML5 delivering your videos on mobile devices.
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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    HDS video codec.
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    Defa Protect HTML5 Video From Download

    Defa Protect HTML5 Video From Download

    Prevent and Protect Your HTML5 Video, Music , Audio From Download Free

    Defa Protector is A Simple PHP and Wordpress Plugin To Protect and Prevent Video Save As From Browser and Some Video Grabber. There is 100% Guaranteed Protection and There might be some tradeoff but If you care about Digital Rights Management of Your Video and Music Content. This Project is for you. Defa Protector 6.7.1 Revamp Code For Better Performance To The Bone. We almost rewritten this project from scratch.
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    Real-time MPEG-4 XpressDSP (xDM) compliant encoder for C64x (DM642) and C64+ (DM6446 DaVinci) Texas Instruments DSPs. Supports: color space conversion, adaptive de-interlace, scale-down etc.
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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    EncodeX

    MPEG-4 x264 Encoder GUI

    MPEG-4 MKV MP4 x264 ffmpeg Encoder GUI
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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    FastoCloud PRO

    IPTV/NVR/CCTV/Video cloud https://fastocloud.com

    IPTV/Video cloud Features: Cross-platform (Linux, MacOSX, FreeBSD, Raspbian/Armbian) GPU/CPU Encode/Decode/Post Processing Stream statistics CCTV Adaptive hls streams Load balancing Temporary urls HLS push EPG scanning Subtitles to text conversions AD insertion Logo overlay Video effects Relays Timeshifts Catchups Playlists Restream/Transcode from online streaming services like Youtube, Twitch Mozaic Many Outputs Physical Inputs Streaming Protocols File Formats Presets Vods/Series server-side support Pay per view channels Channels on demand HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) server-side support Public API, client server communication via JSON RPC Protocol gzip compression Deep learning video analysis Supported deep learning frameworks: Tensorflow NCSDK Caffe ML Hardware:
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    H.264/AVC (MPEG-4 Part 10) encoder written in Java language and integrated with JMF (Java Media Framework).
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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    That is an video encoder that implements h264 encoding. Main goal is to provide lite Java h264 implementation for Applets and Client development.
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    A Java port of XviD.
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    Implements Lazy Wavelet Transform with Lifting in several variants: 1-D, 2-D, 3-D, integer precision, etc. Sample video compressor, integrated with FFmpeg. OpenCL version is created.
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    Libavinterface is a C++ wrapper library for the C video library FFMPEG and the C graphics library SDL. It is designed to be class-based, predominantly for scenarios where non-class data is impossible (eg. the VST SDK). It is designed for mingw/msys.
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    Ogg Omg Metadata Getter for PHP

    Previously known as Ogg.class.php

    This is a continuation of Ogg.class.php by Nicolas Ricquemaque, which in turn was a split from File_Ogg by David Grant (don't you love Free Software?). Initially this project will just fix bugs and make minor adjustments to Ogg.class.php code, no backward incompatible changes will be made without an announcement. The version numbers will continue from the 1.3g, the latest released version of the ancestor project. Note: This project will __not__ help you to convert your media files into Ogg or to mux several Ogg streams together. It __will__ help you to get correct information about an already converted file.
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    Implementation of a RLE encoder/decoder library tailored for DICOM image.
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