Olive Video Editor
A next-generation open source non-linear video editor under development aiming for professional features and performance (currently in alpha).
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VirtualDub
A classic open source video capture and processing utility for Windows, useful for quick linear operations, filtering, and format conversions on AVI files.
OpenShot Video Editor
An easy-to-use, cross-platform open source video editor. It supports timeline editing, effects, and keyframes for creating videos on Linux, Mac, and Windows.
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GStreamer
An open source multimedia framework in C that allows the construction of graphs for media handling (capture, transcoding, playback) on various platforms.
Media Player Classic – Black Edition (MPC-BE)
A community fork of MPC-HC with additional features and improvements, offering enhanced audio/video playback and a dark-themed interface.
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Media Player Classic – Home Cinema (MPC-HC)
A lightweight, open source Windows media player modeled after the classic Windows Media Player 6.4. It supports a wide range of formats with GPU acceleration and subtitle support.
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Flowplayer
A lightweight HTML5 video player known for fast performance and plugin support, historically used as an open source web player.
Daala Codec (Xiph)
An experimental video codec from the Xiph.Org Foundation that aimed to achieve next-generation compression (the effort preceded and influenced AV1). Daala introduced novel techniques like lapped transforms and per-pixel entropy coding. Its codebase is open and served as a sandbox for ideas that made it into AV1.
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XVC Codec (Divideon)
XVC is a proprietary but openly documented video codec by Divideon that claims high compression efficiency. An open source evaluation implementation was released for research purposes. XVC serves as a modern codec design to compare against standards like HEVC and AV1 in compression efficiency research.
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OpenHEVC Decoder
An open source high-performance HEVC decoder. OpenHEVC was developed to provide a fast HEVC/H.265 software decoding solution and has been integrated into projects like VLC. It supports real-time decoding of 1080p and higher resolutions on typical PC hardware.
