List of Multimedia Applications

This is a small, hand-maintained, list of various multimedia-related applications.

• VLC - an open-source, cross-platform multimedia player which plays most media files and has a friendly user-interface.

• mplayer - a primarily command-line media player which supports many formats. Has a Spartan interface, but ships with some GUIs. Open source (GPLed) and cross-platform.

• mpv - a fork of mplayer with some improvements, and which is under active development. Open source (GPLed) and cross-platform.

• Windows Media Player - a proprietary, Windows-only media player from Microsoft.

• GStreamer - an open-source multimedia framework. LGPLed. Is supported by many players, including gst123 .

• xine - a multimedia playback library, along with some standalone players for UNIX-like operating systems. Open source (GPLed). Its popularity appears to have waned considerably lately.

• Wikipedia’s Comparison of Video Player Software.

• Amarok - a powerful music player with many features and extensions for Linux, UNIX, and Windows. Open source (GPL).

• Clementine Music Player - a multi-platform music player based on Amarok 1.4, ported to Qt 4. Open source (GPL).

• Banshee - an open-source music and video player based on C#/.NET, gtk#, and Mono, on Linux and Mac OS X. Cross-platform.

• Rhythmbox - “an integrated music management application” for GNOME.

• XMMS2 - an open-source and cross-platform multi-format music player based on the client/server model.

• Exaile - a Gtk+ based music manager and player, inspired by Amarok, that is available for UNIX-like operating systems and Windows. (Open source - GPLed).

• Winamp - a media player for Windows-based PCs and Android devices. Proprietary and freeware/shareware. Used to be popular in the late nineties, but its popularity waned.

• foobar2000 - a freeware audio player. Aims for simplicity. Proprietary and Windows-only.

• Wikipedia’s Comparison of Audio Player Software.

• youtube-dl - a cross-platform command line program, written in Python 2.x to download videos from YouTube.com, metacafe, Google Video, Photobucket videos, Yahoo! video, Dailymotion, DepositFiles, blip.tv, vimeo, myvideo.de and others. Open source (public domain).

• Video DownloadHelper - an extension for Firefox that downloads videos from “hundreds of YouTube-like sites”. Custom, mostly all-rights-reserved licence.

• Audacity - an open source, cross-platform, program for recording and editing sounds. Seems to be the best-of-breed among open-source waveform editors.

• Adobe Audition - a proprietary, commercial, application from Adobe (formerly known as Cool Edit) that runs on latest versions of Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X.

• Wikipedia Comparison of multi-track recording software

• OpenShot Video Editor - an open-source (GPLv3) video editor written in Python.

• Kdenlive - an open-source (GPLv2+) video editor, based on the KDE frameworks.

• VLMC - VideoLAN Movie Creator - an open-source and cross-platform (GPLv2) video editor from the VideoLAN project (which also develops the VLC player). Currently (24 July 2015) under preliminary development stages.

• Adobe Premiere Pro - a proprietary and commercial video editor, for Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows.

• Sound & MIDI Software For Linux - a comprehensive directory.

• Adobe-Alternatives: A list of alternatives for Adobe software - on GitHub.

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