| a52dec | A free library for decoding ATSC A/52 streams | |
| aalib | A portable ASCII art graphic library | |
| allegro | Portable library mainly aimed at video game and multimedia programming | |
| alsa-lib | An alternative implementation of Linux sound support | |
| alsa-oss | OSS compatibility library | |
| alure | Utility library to help manage common tasks with OpenAL applications. | |
| aubio | A library for audio labelling | |
| audiofile | Silicon Graphics Audio File Library | |
| babl | Dynamic, any to any, pixel format conversion library | |
| celt | Low-latency audio communication codec | |
| celt-0.7 | Low-latency audio communication codec | |
| chromaprint | Library that implements a custom algorithm for extracting fingerprints from any audio source | |
| clutter | A GObject based library for creating fast, visually rich graphical user interfaces | |
| clutter-gst | GStreamer bindings for clutter | |
| clutter-gtk | GTK clutter widget | |
| cogl | An object oriented GL/GLES Abstraction/Utility Layer | |
| compface | Utils & libs to convert from/to X-Face format. | |
| csfml | C bindings for sfml | |
| devil | Library for reading several different image formats | |
| discid | A program to calculate the disc-ID for audio compact discs | |
| dssi | An API for audio processing plugins & softsynths with UIs | |
| dumb | An IT, XM, S3M and MOD player library | |
| esdl | SDL and OpenGL bindings for the Erlang programming language | |
| exempi | A library to parse XMP metadata | |
| faac | An AAC audio encoder | |
| faad2 | ISO AAC audio decoder | |
| flac | Free Lossless Audio Codec | |
| flickcurl | C library for the Flickr API | |
| fontconfig | A library for configuring and customizing font access | |
| freealut | OpenAL Utility Toolkit (ALUT) | |
| freeglut | Provides functionality for small OpenGL programs | |
| freeimage | Library project for developers who would like to support popular graphics image formats | |
| freetype2 | TrueType font rendering library | |
| ftgl | OpenGL library to use arbitrary fonts | |
| gavl | A low level library, upon which multimedia APIs can be built. | |
| gd | Library for the dynamic creation of images by programmers | |
| gegl | Graph based image processing framework | |
| giblib | A library that feh uses as a wrapper to imlib2 | |
| giflib | A library for reading and writing gif images | |
| glew | The OpenGL Extension Wrangler Library | |
| glfw | A free, open source, portable framework for OpenGL application development | |
| glm | C++ mathematics library for 3D software based on the OpenGL Shading Language (GLSL) specification | |
| glpng | Toolkit for loading PNG images as OpenGL textures | |
| gluon | A free and open source platform for creating and distributing games | |
| gmtk | Common functions for gnome-mplayer and gecko-mediaplay. | |
| gnonlin | A library for creating non-linear video editors | |
| grilo | Framework that provides access to various sources of multimedia content | |
| gstreamer0.10 | GStreamer Multimedia Framework | |
| gstreamer0.10-bad | GStreamer Multimedia Framework Bad Plugin libraries (gst-plugins-bad) | |
| gstreamer0.10-base-plugins | GStreamer Multimedia Framework Base Plugins (gst-plugins-base) | |
| gstreamer0.10-good | GStreamer Multimedia Framework Good plugin libraries | |
| gstreamer0.10-good-plugins | GStreamer Multimedia Framework Good Plugins (gst-plugins-good) | |
| gstreamer0.10-ugly | GStreamer Multimedia Framework Ugly plugin libraries | |
| gstreamer0.10-ugly-plugins | GStreamer Multimedia Framework Ugly Plugins (gst-plugins-ugly) | |
| gupnp-dlna | Library to ease DLNA-related bits for applications using gupnp | |
| id3lib | An open-source, cross-platform software development library for reading, writing, and manipulating ID3v1 and ID3v2 tags | |
| ilmbase | Base libraries from ILM for OpenEXR | |
| imlib | General image handling library for X11 and Gtk | |
| imlib2 | Library that does image file loading and saving as well as rendering, manipulation, arbitrary polygon support | |
| jasper | A software-based implementation of the codec specified in the emerging JPEG-2000 Part-1 standard | |
| jbig2dec | decoder implementation of the JBIG2 image compression format | |
| jbigkit | Data compression library/utilities for bi-level high-resolution images | |
| ladspa | Linux Audio Developer's Simple Plugin API (LADSPA) | |
| lcms | Lightweight color management development library/engine | |
| lensfun | Database of photographic lenses and a library that allows advanced access to the database | |
| leptonica | Software that is broadly useful for image processing and image analysis applications | |
| libao | Cross-platform audio output library and plugins | |
| libart-lgpl | A library for high-performance 2D graphics | |
| libass | A portable library for SSA/ASS subtitles rendering | |
| libbluray | Library to access Blu-Ray disks for video playback | |
| libcaca | Color AsCii Art library | |
| libcanberra | A small and lightweight implementation of the XDG Sound Theme Specification | |
| libcanberra-pulse | PulseAudio plugin for libcanberra | |
| libcdaudio | Library for controlling Audio CDs and interacting with CDDB | |
| libcddb | Library that implements the different protocols (CDDBP, HTTP, SMTP) to access data on a CDDB server (e.g. http://freedb.org). | |
| libchamplain | Gtk3 widget for displaying rasterized maps | |
| libcue | Parses so-called cue sheets and handles the parsed data | |
| libcuefile | A library to work with CUE files | |
| libdc1394 | High level programming interface to control IEEE 1394 based cameras | |
| libdca | Free library for decoding DTS Coherent Acoustics streams | |
| libdiscid | A Library for creating MusicBrainz DiscIDs | |
| libdlna | An open-source implementation of DLNA (Digital Living Network Alliance) standards | |
| libdmtx | A software for reading and writing Data Matrix 2D barcodes | |
| libdv | The Quasar DV codec (libdv) is a software codec for DV video | |
| libdvbpsi | A library designed for decoding and generation of MPEG TS and DVB PSI tables | |
| libdvdcss | A portable abstraction library for DVD decryption | |
| libdvdnav | The library for xine-dvdnav plugin. | |
| libdvdread | Provides a simple foundation for reading DVD video disks | |
| libexif | A library to parse an EXIF file and read the data from those tags | |
| libextractor | A library used to extract meta-data from files of arbitrary type | |
| libgig | C++ library for loading Gigasampler and DLS files | |
| libgnome-media-profiles | Library for management of audio recording profiles | |
| libgphoto2 | The core library of gphoto2, designed to allow access to digital camera by external programs. | |
| libgpod | A shared library to access the contents of an iPod | |
| libharu | C/C++ library for generating PDF documents | |
| libid3tag | library for id3 tagging | |
| libiec61883 | A higher level API for streaming DV, MPEG-2 and audio over Linux IEEE 1394 | |
| libifp | General-purpose library-driver for iRiver's iFP portable audio players | |
| libiptcdata | Library for manipulating the IPTC metadata | |
| libirman | Irman driver lcd library | |
| libjpeg-turbo | libjpeg derivative with accelerated baseline JPEG compression and decompression | |
| libkate | A karaoke and text codec for embedding in ogg | |
| libkface | A Qt/C++ wrapper around LibFace library to perform face recognition and detection over pictures | |
| libkgeomap | A wrapper around world map components for browsing and arranging photos on a map | |
| liblastfm | A collection of libraries to help you integrate Last.fm services into your rich desktop software | |
| liblo | Lightweight OSC implementation: an implementation of the Open Sound Control protocol for POSIX systems | |
| liblqr | A seam-carving C/C++ library called Liquid Rescale | |
| liblrdf | A library for the manipulation of RDF file in LADSPA plugins | |
| libmad | A high-quality MPEG audio decoder | |
| libmatroska | Matroska library | |
| libmediainfo | shared library for mediainfo | |
| libmediawiki | A KDE C++ interface for MediaWiki based web service as wikipedia.org | |
| libmikmod | A portable sound library | |
| libmms | MMS stream protocol library | |
| libmng | A collection of routines used to create and manipulate MNG format graphics files | |
| libmodplug | A MOD playing library | |
| libmp3splt | Library for splitting mp3 and ogg files without decoding | |
| libmp4v2 | MPEG-4 library | |
| libmpc | Library for the arithmetic of complex numbers with arbitrarily high precision | |
| libmpcdec | Musepack decoding library | |
| libmpdclient | Asynchronous API library for interfacing MPD in the C, C++ & Objective C languages | |
| libmpeg2 | Library for decoding MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 video streams. | |
| libmtp | Library implementation of the Media Transfer Protocol | |
| libofa | An open-source audio fingerprint by MusicIP | |
| libogg | Ogg bitstream and framing library | |
| liboggz | A simple programming interface for reading and writing Ogg files and streams | |
| libopenraw | Library for decoding RAW files | |
| libpano13 | Basic library to calculate panoramical pictures - core functions of the panotools | |
| libpng | A collection of routines used to create PNG format graphics files | |
| libquicktime | A library for reading and writing quicktime files | |
| libquvi | Library for parsing video download links. | |
| libquvi-scripts | Library for parsing video download links. | |
| libraw | A library for reading RAW files obtained from digital photo cameras (CRW/CR2, NEF, RAF, DNG, and others) | |
| libreplaygain | A library to adjust audio gain | |
| libsamplerate | Secret Rabbit Code - aka Sample Rate Converter for audio | |
| libshout | Library for accessing a shoutcast/icecast server | |
| libsidplay | A library for playing SID music files. | |
| libsmf | A BSD-licensed C library for handling SMF ("*.mid") files. | |
| libsndfile | A C library for reading and writing files containing sampled sound | |
| libtheora | An open video codec developed by the Xiph.org | |
| libtiff | Library for manipulation of TIFF images | |
| libtiger | A rendering library for Kate streams using Pango and Cairo | |
| libvisual | Abstraction library that comes between applications and audio visualisation plugins | |
| libvorbis | Vorbis codec library | |
| libvpx | The VP8 Codec SDK | |
| libwebp | WebP library and conversion tools | |
| libwmf | A library for reading vector images in Microsoft's native Windows Metafile Format (WMF) | |
| libzen | shared library for libmediainfo and mediainfo | |
| lv2 | Successor to the LADSPA audio plug-in standard | |
| mediastreamer | A library written in C that allows you to create and run audio and video streams | |
| mesa | Mesa 3-D graphics libraries and include files | |
| mlt | An open source multimedia framework | |
| musicbrainz | The second generation incarnation of the CD Index | |
| mutagen | An audio metadata tag reader and writer | |
| netpbm | A toolkit for manipulation of graphic images | |
| opencollada | Stream based reader and writer library for COLLADA files | |
| opencore-amr | Open source implementation of the Adaptive Multi Rate (AMR) speech codec | |
| opencv | Open Source Computer Vision Library | |
| openexr | An high dynamic-range image file format library | |
| opengtl | A set of library for using and integrating transformation algorithms (such as filter or color conversion) in graphics applications | |
| openimageio | A library for reading and writing images, including classes, utilities, and applications. | |
| openjpeg | An open source JPEG 2000 codec | |
| orc | The Oild Runtime Compiler | |
| phonon-gstreamer | Phonon GStreamer backend | |
| phonon-vlc | Phonon VLC backend | |
| plib | Set of libraries to write games and other realtime interactive applications | |
| plotutils | Set of utilities and libraries for plotting. | |
| portaudio | A free, cross-platform, open source, audio I/O library. | |
| portmidi | Platform independent library for real-time MIDI input/output. | |
| prison | A barcode API to produce QRCode barcodes and DataMatrix barcodes | |
| qhull | A general dimension code for computing convex hulls and related structures | |
| qimageblitz | A graphical effect and filter library for KDE | |
| quesoglc | A free implementation of the OpenGL Character Renderer (GLC) | |
| quvi | Command-line tool for parsing video download links. | |
| raptor | A C library that parses RDF/XML/N-Triples into RDF triples | |
| raul | C++ Realtime Audio Utility Library | |
| rubberband | Time-stretching and pitch-shifting audio library and utility | |
| schroedinger | An implemenation of the Dirac video codec in ANSI C code | |
| sdl | A library for portable low-level access to a video framebuffer, audio output, mouse, and keyboard | |
| sdl_image | A simple library to load images of various formats as SDL surfaces | |
| sdl_mixer | A simple multi-channel audio mixer | |
| sdl_ttf | A library that allows you to use TrueType fonts in your SDL applications | |
| sk1libs | A set of python non-GUI extensions for sK1 Project. | |
| slv2 | Library for LV2 hosts | |
| smpeg | SDL MPEG Player Library | |
| soundtouch | An audio processing library | |
| spandsp | A DSP library for telephony | |
| speex | A free codec for free speech | |
| stk | The Synthesis ToolKit in C++ | |
| t1lib | Library for generating character- and string-glyphs from Adobe Type 1 fonts | |
| taglib | A Library for reading and editing the meta-data of several popular audio formats | |
| taglib-extras | Additional taglib plugins for KDE | |
| tunepimp | A development library geared towards developers who wish to create MusicBrainz enabled tagging applications (aka libtunepimp) | |
| vamp-plugin-sdk | The Vamp audio analysis plug-in system | |
| vigra | Computer vision library | |
| webrtc-audio-processing | AudioProcessing library based on Google's implementation of WebRTC | |
| x264 | free library for encoding H264/AVC video streams | |
| xine-lib | A multimedia playback engine | |
| xvidcore | XviD is an open source MPEG-4 video codec | |
| zvbi | VBI capture and decoding library |