C++ Multimedia

Open-source C++ projects categorized as Multimedia

Top 14 C++ Multimedia Projects

  1. srs

    SRS is a simple, high-efficiency, real-time media server supporting RTMP, WebRTC, HLS, HTTP-FLV, HTTP-TS, SRT, MPEG-DASH, and GB28181.

  2. Nutrient

    Nutrient - The #1 PDF SDK Library. Bad PDFs = bad UX. Slow load times, broken annotations, clunky UX frustrates users. Nutrient’s PDF SDKs gives seamless document experiences, fast rendering, annotations, real-time collaboration, 100+ features. Used by 10K+ devs, serving ~half a billion users worldwide. Explore the SDK for free.

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  3. Kodi Home Theater Software

    Kodi is an award-winning free and open source home theater/media center software and entertainment hub for digital media. With its beautiful interface and powerful skinning engine, it's available for Android, BSD, Linux, macOS, iOS, tvOS and Windows.

    Project mention: Kodi: Free Software Entertainment System | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-02-15
  4. SFML

    Simple and Fast Multimedia Library

  5. QtAv

    A cross-platform multimedia framework based on Qt and FFmpeg. 基于Qt和FFmpeg的跨平台高性能音视频播放框架. Recommand to use new sdk https://github.com/wang-bin/mdk-sdk

  6. srt

    Secure, Reliable, Transport

  7. MediaInfoLib

    Convenient unified display of the most relevant technical and tag data for video and audio files.

  8. MystiQ

    Qt5/C++ FFmpeg Media Converter

  9. CodeRabbit

    CodeRabbit: AI Code Reviews for Developers. Revolutionize your code reviews with AI. CodeRabbit offers PR summaries, code walkthroughs, 1-click suggestions, and AST-based analysis. Boost productivity and code quality across all major languages with each PR.

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  10. AvCpp

    C++ wrapper for FFmpeg

  11. avendish

    declarative polyamorous cross-system intermedia objects

    Project mention: What's new in C++26 (part 1) | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-09-07

    Check out boost.pfr, it gets you there for a lot of cases. Here's a library I built with it: https://github.com/celtera/avendish

    It's a proper quantum leap compared to pre-reflection

  12. ffmpegfs

    FUSE-based transcoding filesystem with video support from many formats to FLAC, MP4, TS, WebM, OGG, MP3, HLS, and others.

  13. mpz

    Music player for big local collections

    Project mention: Foobar2000 | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-07-31

    try https://github.com/olegantonyan/mpz/ not even close in terms of features, but it could be enough

  14. CatraMMS

    Media Management System: ingestion, processing, encoding, delivery, ...

  15. proteaaudio

    Simple audio library for Windows, Linux, OSX. Supports Mp3, Ogg, Wav playback and multichannel mixing.

  16. GstKalman

    GStreamer Kalman Filter Video Plugin

  17. SaaSHub

    SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

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NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).

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Index

What are some of the best open-source Multimedia projects in C++? This list will help you:

# Project Stars
1 srs 26,354
2 Kodi Home Theater Software 18,950
3 SFML 10,636
4 QtAv 4,028
5 srt 3,199
6 MediaInfoLib 662
7 MystiQ 574
8 AvCpp 475
9 avendish 426
10 ffmpegfs 220
11 mpz 88
12 CatraMMS 38
13 proteaaudio 28
14 GstKalman 4

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