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Video processing

HandBrake: Open Source Video Transcoder

Codecs

Combined Community Codec Pack
Download Free Vista Codec Package 4.2.3 » My Digital Life
Huffyuv - a very fast, lossless Win32 video codec with C++ source! - also see Why not use Motion JPEG?
MP4Cam2AVI Easy Converter | Free Audio & Video software downloads at SourceForge.net - MP4Cam2AVI is a MP4/MOV/M2TS to AVI repackaging tool for digital photo-video cameras, it makes their clips editable in VirtualDub, MovieMaker and other AVI editors. Also it can combine (join) multiple clips from camera into a single AVI movie, preserving audio/video sync. No video recompression (by default), no quality loss, fast operation (5-20x realtime). No installation needed - just download, unzip and run mp4cam2avi.exe.
ffdshow | Free Audio & Video software downloads at SourceForge.net

Matroska Media Container - Homepage | Matroska
KRE Animate.co.uk - MPlayer for Animators - great info on using mplayer to play sequences of JPEGs while playing a sound, mirroring, and encoding. Nice.
Welcome to virtualdub.org! - virtualdub.org - VirtualDub is a video capture/processing utility for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows platforms
H.264/MPEG-4 AVC - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
H264TS_Cutter - H264TS_Cutter is a program to cut and merge AVC / H.264 Transportstreams.
High Efficiency Video Coding - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - HEVC stands for High Efficiency Video Coding — it’s the recently-ratified successor to AVC, otherwise known as H.264. Being the next generation of codec onwards from H.264, HEVC is also referred to as H.265. HEVC can be twice as detailed as video encoded in H.264, or can show the same detail as H.264 at half the file size.
strukturag/libde265 - Open h.265 video codec implementation.


FFMPEG and libavformat/libavcodec info

ffmpeg audio/video manipulation
Zeranoe FFmpeg - Builds
FFmpeg Documentation
Using libavformat and libavcodec
Using libavformat and libavcodec: An Update
Grafman's FFMPEG Developer Info
Sönke Rohde » FFMPEG - get FFMPEG going on MinGW.
Building FFmpeg on Windows HowTo (MinGW)
Cross Compiling FFmpeg with x264 for Android | Vinsol - Ruby on Rails, iOS, Android Consulting and Development hiteshsondhi88/ffmpeg-android

CMU 1394 Digital Camera Driver
FreeJ :: vision mixer

flip mp4 || ffmpeg flip video upside down

Rotating videos:
ffmpeg -i in.mov -vf "transpose=1" out.mov
transpose parameter can take on the following paramters:
0 = 90CounterCLockwise and Vertical Flip (default)
1 = 90Clockwise
2 = 90CounterClockwise
3 = 90Clockwise and Vertical Flip
How to flip a video 180° (vertical/upside down) with FFmpeg? - Super User - -vf "hflip,vflip"(no re-encoding), -vf "transpose=2,transpose=2"


ffmpeg video clipping

cut a inputmovie, starting at ss, for duration of t
ffmpeg -i inputmovie.mp4 -ss 00:00:05 -t 00:00:10 output.mp4


ffmpeg video cropping

ffmpeg -i in.mp4 -filter:v "crop=out_width:out_height:xoffset:yoffset" out.mp4


Scaling (resizing) with ffmpeg – FFmpeg - -vf scale=320,-1 or -vf scale=iw*2:ih
ffmpeg2theora - A simple command line converter to create Ogg Theora files.


Video capture

Dorgem - Open Source Webcam Capture Application
Fwink - Free Webcam Software
VideoCapture - A Win32 Python Extension for Accessing Video Devices (e.g. a USB WebCam, a TV-Card, ...)
HornetsEye - Computer Vision for the Robotic Age - HornetsEye
SourceForge: camstudio/camstudio: Summary
HyperCam
Freeseer/freeseer A set of tools designed for capturing presentations. The main tool is capable of capturing VGA output and audio, and mixing them together to produce a video.


DirectShow

WPF MediaKit - For webcam, DVD and custom video support in WPF - Home
VIDEOINFO: A DirectShow Blog
Windows SDK Release Notes
Mike Wasson's Blog : DirectShow in the Windows SDK for Vista
Re: Base classes compile problem with Vista SDK - MSDN Forums
The GMFBridge Toolkit
CodeProject: DirectShow.NET.
DirectShowNet library
SourceForge.net: DSVideoLib
How to control pan/tilt/zoom on Logitech cameras â?? QuickCam Team
Mark Schmidt's Abode : C# WebCam User Control Source
Informikon - DirectShow and C#: The final frontier ;-)
XNA DirectShow Video Player - Home
Directshow Filters for Ogg Vorbis, Speex, Theora and FLAC :: Main / HomePage
Technology Consulting - Making Thumbnails for Videos using DirectShow.NET


Screen capture / Full system audio capture / sensible-cinema

Roger's woze Blog
rdp/screen-capture-recorder-to-video-windows-free - GitHub
how to use VLC to stream your desktop live (windows) with audio (or stream a DVD) « Roger's woze
rdp/virtual-audio-capture-grabber-device - GitHub
Sensible Cinema
zamples/edit_decision_lists/dvds at master from rdp/sensible-cinema - GitHub - sample edls


VideoLAN - VLC

VideoLAN - VLC: Official site - Free multimedia solutions for all OS!
VideoLan DotNet for WinForm & WPF - Vlc.DotNet libraries provide the audio/video control of VideoLan on WinForm (.Net 2.0) or Windows Presentation Foundation (.Net 3.5). Now you can stream audio/video in C# or VB.Net.
Win32Compile - VideoLAN Wiki - mingw-w64 cross-compilation


EVR - Enhanced Video Renderer

enhanced video renderer (EVR) is a component that displays video on the user's monitor (Direct3d &DirectX Video Acceleration (DXVA)).
Enhanced Video Renderer (Windows) - The EVR media sink, for Media Foundation applications. The EVR filter, for DirectShow applications.
WPF MediaKit: Now with 100% more EVR - WPF Disciples | Google Groups


Media Foundation

About the Media Foundation SDK
Media Foundation .NET - managed api for MF (only works in vista however)
How to build a DShow Filter in VS2005 for Mobile 5? - MSDN Forums


WPF and WPF/E video support

WPF and Silverlight have support for video.
theWPFblog » WPF Video Filmstrip
ManagedMediaHelpers - Home - The MediaStreamSource is a piece of the Silverlight runtime that removes a the influence of a media file's container, giving developers direct access to APIs for manipulating encoded elementary audio and video streams.
WiredPrairie: Extracting thumbnails from a JPEG/JPG in .NET 3.0
JMPInline: Generating non-pixelated thumbnail images in .NET
WebCam control for WPF - Release: Initial release
WPF MediaKit - For webcam, DVD and custom video support in WPF - A library to quickly build DirectShow and MediaFoundation media player controls in WPF. The kit comes with a MediaElement replacement, a VideoCaptureElement for web cams and a DVDPlayerElement that plays DVDs and supports interactive menus.
WPF Video Thumbnail Screencapture - This project is for getting WPF thumbnails / screen shots from a video clip in both a threaded and non-threaded way.
LearnWPF.com - Adding Simeltaneous Video Recording + Playback to WPFMediaKit's VideoCaptureElement
VideoRendererElement - VideoRendererElement allows for high-performance, custom video in WPF. (uses DirectShow)
.NET Rocker » Blog Archive » Take Snapshots of Videos with WPF
Clement Nedelcu's Journal: WPF: drawing a video using MediaPlayer, VideoDrawing and DrawingBrush



Stereo vision

This really should be on another page, but until I move it...
Stereo Cameras from Videre Design


Open Movie Editor
Multitrack Video Editor Roundup


Avisynth - an amazing .dll scripting language and a collection of filters for simple non-linear editing tasks. The scripts are viewed from .avs files with any app supporting directshow.


WiC -Windows Imaging Component

(doesn't belong here, i'll move it some day)
Download details: Windows Imaging Component Code Samples and Tools
Robert A. Wlodarczyk's Blog (MSFT) : Using WPF's InPlaceBitmapMetadataWriter
Robert A. Wlodarczyk's Blog (MSFT) : WPF BitmapSource and GDI+ Bitmap Interop
Implementing A Custom BitmapSource - Presentation Source - Site Home - MSDN Blogs

Windows Media Format

WindowsMedia.NET Library - About - access to Windows Media Format functionality from within .NET. Additionally, it provides definitions for the waveIn*, waveOut*, and MMIO* methods of the Windows Multimedia SDK.
CodeProject: Video File Saving in Windows Media Video Format for the DirectX.Capture Class Library.


gstreamer

GStreamer: features
ossbuild - Open Source Software Build Environment - Google Project Hosting - OSSBuild ("oh-ess-ess build") provides a build system that is compatible with the autotools and MS Visual Studio build environments. It is mainly to support GStreamer and its plugins for Windows (XP/Vista/7) and Linux environments.
GStreamer RTSP server
RTMPDump - rtmpdump is a toolkit for RTMP streams. All forms of RTMP are supported, including rtmp://, rtmpt://, rtmpe://, rtmpte://, and rtmps://. Also includes rtmpsrv and rtmpsuck.
GSVideo - A library by Andres Colubri for the programming environment processing. (uses gstreamer)



MeediOS

(really belongs with my MythTV stuff, but is is video related...)
MeediOS - The HTPC app of the future
sourceforge.net MeediOS - MeediOS is and open source Home Theater application based on the closed source Meedio.
MeediOS - The HTPC app of the future


animated gif

I know it doesn't really belong on this page, but I don't want to move it, right now.
Gifsicle: Command-Line Animated GIFs
Too bad you have to install the Gimp GAP separate even in version 2.8. I found that version 2.6 of the GAP worked for me. Otherwise, you won't have a video menu.

GAP-2.6 for Gimp 2.6-Windows by photocomix-resources on deviantART
GitHub - GNOME/gimp-gap: GIMP Animation Package


visual quality and sttuufff

A&E's Technical Guides to All Things Audio and Video (v3)
AMV Post Production - Visual Quality - Improving Visual Quality and Compressibility for Internet Encoding
AMV App - basically just a package containing most of the software used in these above mentioned guides.


blender vse

VSE & HDR, quick and dirty 8bit « Blender's VSE


Kdenlive & Media Lovin

Kdenlive | Free and open source video editor for GNU/Linux, Mac OS X and FreeBSD
WebHome < MLT < MLT Wiki - Media Lovin' Toolkit (MLT) is an open source multimedia framework, designed and developed for television broadcasting.


GSITWiki: Storing Data In Video using zxing - Multi-format 1D/2D barcode image processing library with clients for Android, Java - Google Project Hosting and Xuggler to store data within video.


HTML 5 video support

HTML5 video - Wikipedia
Video - Dive Into HTML5
I like to have videos autoplay, but I also understand how they quickly turn into an annoyance, much like a blink tag. Most times, I think the user should have the ability to click the video to pause and restart play of the video. You can see my first HTML5 video post here: Android Programming - Dave Horner's Website, Andy gives you a little wave.
html5 audio player - jquery toggle click play/pause? - Stack Overflow
Using HTML5 audio and video - Web developer guide | MDN


Videogrep: Automatic Supercuts with Python – Sam Lavigne - Videogrep searches through dialog in video files (using .srt subtitle tracks) and makes supercuts based on what it finds. antiboredom/videogrep
MoviePy — MoviePy documentation - MoviePy is a Python module for script-based movie editing. It enables basic operations (cuts, concatenations, title insertions) to be done in a few lines, and can be used for advanced compositing and special effects. It can read and write to many formats, including animated GIFs.
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