Libraries

• SDL
  Simple DirectMedia Layer is a cross-platform multimedia library designed to provide level access to audio, keyboard, mouse, joystick, 3D hardware via OpenGL, and 2D video framebuffer. It is used by M...
  
• openquicktime
  OpenQuicktime aims to be a portable library for handling Apples QuickTime popular media files on Unix-like environments. It is aim is to provide encoding, authoring and editing support as well as vid...
  
• SDL_mixer
  SDL_mixer is a sample multi-channel audio mixer library. It supports any number of simultaneously playing channels of 16 bit stereo audio, plus a single channel of music, mixed by the popular MikMo...
  
• xlv
  A Linux library/interface for multimedia contents. ...
  
• libsndfile
  A library for reading and writing sound files. ...
  
• Alogg
  'alogg' is a library which makes it easier to use Ogg/Vorbis streams with Allegro. It offers facilities to decode, stream, and encode Ogg/Vorbis streams, and integrates those facilities with Allegro'...
  
• libshout
  'libshout' allows applications to easily communicate and broadcast to an Icecast streaming media server. It handles the socket connections, metadata communication, and data streaming for the calling ...
  
• libdvdread
  libdvdread provides a simple foundation for reading DVD video disks. It provides the functionality that is required to access many DVDs. It parses IFO files, reads NAV-blocks, and performs CSS authe...
  
• The Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA)
  The Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) provides audio and MIDI functionality to the Linux operating system. ALSA has the following significant features: 1. Efficient support for all types of au...
  
• libbeep
  A way to get music from your PC beeper in any Linux program. ...
  
• Matrox Millennium II Xv extension
  This patch will enhance the XFree86 4.2.0 Matrox Millennium II driver to support the X video (Xv) extension (extremely useful for playing DVDs and other MPEGs). The extension is implemented as a CPU ...
  
• audiofile
  The Audio File Library provides a uniform and elegant API for accessing a variety of audio file formats, such as AIFF/AIFF-C, WAVE, NeXT/Sun .snd/.au, and Berkeley/IRCAM/CARL Sound File. Supported co...
  
• paragui
  ParaGUI is a cross-platform high-level application framework and GUI (graphical user interface) library. ParaGUI's is completely based on the Simple DirectMedia Layer. ...
  
• Simple DirectMedia Layer
  SDL is a library that allows you portable low-level access to a video framebuffer, audio output, mouse, and keyboard. With SDL, it is easy to write portable games which run on Linux (x86, Sparc, PPC,...
  
• libvorbis
  Ogg Vorbis is a high-quality lossy audio codec that is free of intellectual property restrictions. libvorbis is the main vorbis codec library. ...
  
• libmpeg2
  libmpeg2 is a library for decoding MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 video streams. Its main goals are standards conformance, speed, portability, and reuseability. The package also includes mpeg2dec, a small test pr...
  
• libID3
  libID3 is a small C library to parse ID3 tags. It uses as little memory as possible, and has both DOM- and SAX-like models. ...
  
• mplib
  mplib is a library that is able to handle ID3 tags id3v1 and v2. ...
  
• GStreamer-plugins
  Gstreamer-plugins - Plugins for the GStreamer multimedia framework. GStreamer-plugins contains plugins suplying the GStreamer framework with support for various media formats, including Ogg Vorbis, O...
  
• mpeglib
  mpeglib is a library for multimedia codecs. It includes command line players for every format, including MP3, WAV, and MPEG-I video. Plugins for OGG and MPEG-II are available, and the library support...
  
• libtclsmf
  libtclsmf is a library for writing standard MIDI files from within Tcl scripts. ...
  
• libao
  Libao is a cross-platform audio library that allows programs to output audio using a simple API on a wide variety of platforms. ...
  
• libvisual
  Libvisual is a library that acts as a middle layer between applications that wish to display audio visualisation and audio visualisation plugins. ...
  
• Open Source Audio Library Project
  The Open Source Audio Library Project (OSALP) is a C++ class library that contains everything needed to build an audio application. ...
  
• KXL
  KXL is an X11 video and audio library. ...