Debian Multimedia Development packages

Ableton Link, a technology that synchronizes musical beat, tempo, and phase across multiple applications running on one or more devices. Applications on devices connected to a local network discover each other automatically and form a musical session in which each participant can perform independently: anyone can start or stop while still staying in time. Anyone can change the tempo, the others will follow. Anyone can join or leave without disrupting the session.

Ableton Link is implemented as a header-only C++-library. This package contains the development files.

Audacious is a fork of beep-media-player which supports Winamp skins and many codecs.

In the default install, the following codecs are supported:

• MP3
• Ogg Vorbis / Theora
• AAC and AAC+
• FLAC
• ALAC
• Windows Media (WMA)
• WAVE

Additionally, Audacious is extendable through plugins, and contains other useful features like LIRC support. Support for many more codecs can also be added through plugins.

This package contains the development libraries and header files required for developing components for audacious.

Please note that this package no longer contains libaudacious, as libaudacious was dropped in Audacious 1.4.

The CLAM Network Editor is a tool for editing CLAM processing networks. Those processing networks can become the processing core of an audio application by using the CLAM::NetworkPlayer class in such program, or by using the CLAM Prototyper to link the network to a Qt Designer interface.

This package provides both the Network Editor and the Prototyper. It also provides a plugin for Qt Designer which adds widgets to display several kinds of CLAM audio objects from a running network.

crtmpserver is a high performance streaming server able to stream (live or recorded) in the following technologies:

• To and from Flash (RTMP,RTMPE, RTMPS, RTMPT, RTMPTE)
• To and from embedded devices: iPhone, Android
• From surveillance cameras
• IP-TV using MPEG-TS and RTSP/RTCP/RTP protocols

This package contains header files for base crtmpserver libraries 'common' and 'thelib'.

This library is a C++ wrapper around the ALSA library sequencer interface, using Qt5 objects, idioms and style. ALSA sequencer provides software support for MIDI technology on Linux. Complementary classes for RMI and WRK file processing are also included.

This package provides utilities shipped with the library:

• drumstick-drumgrid: Simple Qt drum sequencer.
• drumstick-dumpmid: Write ALSA MIDI events to STDOUT.
• drumstick-dumprmi: Write MIDI events from a RIFF MIDI file to STDOUT.
• drumstick-dumpsmf: Write MIDI events from a MIDI file to STDOUT.
• drumstick-dumpwrk: Write MIDI events from a Cakewalk WRK file to STDOUT.
• drumstick-guiplayer: Simple Qt MIDI file player.
• drumstick-metronome: Headless MIDI metronome.
• drumstick-playsmf: Headless MIDI file player.
• drumstick-sysinfo: Display information about ALSA MIDI.
• drumstick-vpiano: Virtual Piano Keyboard GUI application.

DSSI is an API for audio plugins, with particular application for software synthesis plugins with native user interfaces.

DSSI is an open specification developed for use in Linux audio applications, although it is portable to other platforms. It may be thought of as LADSPA-for-instruments, or something comparable to VSTi.

This package contains the header file required for compiling hosts and plugins.

libdvbpsi is a simple library designed for MPEG TS and DVB PSI tables decoding and generating.

This package contains the dvbinfo utility as well as other example programs.

ETL is a multi-platform class and template library designed to add new datatypes and functions which combine well with the existing types and functions from the C++ Standard Template Library (STL).

FFADO is a Linux driver for FireWire (IEEE1394) audio devices.

The FFADO library permits discovering and configuring such devices and provides an API for streaming clients.

This package holds the following tools for firmware updating, troubleshooting and debugging:

* ffado-test-streaming
* ffado-diag
* ffado-test-isoxmit
* ffado-test-isorecv
* ffado-bridgeco-downloader
* ffado-test
* ffado-fireworks-downloader
* ffado-debug

frei0r is a minimalistic plugin API for video sources and filters. The behavior of the effects can be controlled from the host by simple parameters. The intent is to solve the recurring reimplementation or adaptation issue of standard effects. It is not meant as a generic API for all kinds of video applications.

frei0r plugins are used by several projects (e.g.: LiVES, Veejay, Open Movie Editor, FreeJ, Pure Data Visual Junk Tools, MLT framework).

This package contains the header needed to enable frei0r in other packages at build time and to build your own frei0r plugins.

Free Studio Technology (FST) is an audio plugin software interface that integrates software synthesizer and effects in digital audio workstations. It is an unencumbered, bona-fide reverse-engineered SDK that aims to be compatible with the ubiquitous but proprietary, deprecated and retracted VST2 interface.

Raw file handling for audio sampler files based on DLS Level 1/2 and Gigasampler. These files are typically used in modern day audio waveform samplers. This package contains the following command line tools:

gigdump:

  Prints out the content of a .gig file.
gigextract:
  Extracts samples from a .gig file.
dlsdump:
  Prints out the content of a DLS file.
rifftree:
  Prints out the RIFF tree of an arbitrary RIFF container file.
sf2dump:
  Prints out the content of a .sf2 file.
sf2extract:
  Extracts audio samples from a .sf2 file.
korgdump:
  Prints out the content of KORG sound files (.KSF, .KMP).
korg2gig:
  Converts KORG (.KSF, .KMP) sound files to GigaStudio (.gig) files.
akaidump:
  Dump an AKAI media i.e. from a CDROM drive as disk image file to your HD.
akaiextract:
  Extracts audio samples from an AKAI media or from an AKAI disk image file.

gexiv2 is a GObject-based wrapper around the Exiv2 library. It makes the basic features of Exiv2 available to GNOME applications.

This package contains introspection data.

gscanbus is a little bus scanning, testing and topology visualizing tool for the Linux IEEE1394 subsystem, with some AV/C support, especially for controlling Camcorders and VCRs. It is intended as a debugging tool for IEEE1394 development, but can also be used to simply check your IEEE1394 setup on Linux.

ino is a minimalist C API to execute JavaScript code and to expose native methods to JavaScript execution contexts.

This package only provides the common headers for all ino implementations.

ino is part of the NASPRO Sound PROcessing Architecture.

JUCE (Jules' Utility Class Extensions) is an all-encompassing C++ framework for developing cross-platform software.

It contains pretty much everything you're likely to need to create most applications, and is particularly well-suited for building highly-customised GUIs, and for handling graphics and sound.

This package installs the sources for the JUCE modules along with required development libraries, as used by 'jucer' projects. (Projucer is provided in the 'juce-tools' package).

JUCE (Jules' Utility Class Extensions) is an all-encompassing C++ framework for developing cross-platform software. The Projucer (formerly Introjucer) is JUCE's project-management tool and secret weapon.

The Projucer's Duties:

• Central management of cross-platform builds
• JUCE Module Management
• New Project Creation
• User-Interface Design Tool
• Plug-in Projects
• Miscellaneous Utilities

LADSPA is a free standard specification for audio effect plugins.

Contains sample plugins, and analyseplugin, listplugin, applyplugin programs, and the ladspa.h, the LADSPA specification.

Please build-depend on this package if you need ladspa.h

liba52 is a free library for decoding ATSC A/52 streams. The A/52 standard is used in a variety of applications, including digital television and DVD. It is also known as AC-3.

This package contains the development files.

libaacs is a research project to implement the Advanced Access Content System specification. It provides, through an open-source library, a way to understand how the AACS works.

This package DOES NOT provide any key or certificate that could be used to decode encrypted copyrighted material. It is based on the official public AACS specification only.

This package provides the development files for libaacs0.

libaperture provides GTK widgets and GObjects to ease developing camera applications for mobile phones.

This package contains the development files and documentation.

A library of functions for 2D graphics supporting a superset of the PostScript imaging model, designed to be integrated with graphics, artwork, and illustration programs. It is written in optimized C, and is fully compatible with C++. With a small footprint of 10,000 lines of code, it is especially suitable for embedded applications.

This package is for legacy applications and no longer used by GNOME.

This package contains files required for developing software that makes use of libasound2, the ALSA library.

ALSA is the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture.

SubStation Alpha (SSA) is a subtitle file format that allows more advanced subtitles than the conventional SRT and similar formats.

This package contains the header files and static libraries needed to compile applications or shared objects that use libass.

aubio gathers a set of functions for audio signal segmentation and labelling. The library contains a phase vocoder, onset and pitch detection functions, a beat tracking algorithm and other sound processing utilities.

This package contains the development files for libaubio.

Audacious is a fork of beep-media-player which supports Winamp skins and many codecs.

In the default install, the following codecs are supported:

• MP3
• Ogg Vorbis / Theora
• AAC and AAC+
• FLAC
• ALAC
• Windows Media (WMA)
• WAVE

Additionally, Audacious is extendable through plugins, and contains other useful features like LIRC support. Support for many more codecs can also be added through plugins.

This package contains a development files and headers for the library used to remote control audacious.

The audiofile library allows the processing of audio data to and from audio files of many common formats (currently AIFF, AIFF-C, WAVE, NeXT/Sun, BICS, and raw data).

This package contains the development headers and library files needed to compile programs using libaudiofile, as well as example programs for identifying and converting audio files.

libavc1394 is a programming interface for the 1394 Trade Association AV/C (Audio/Video Control) Digital Interface Command Set. It allows you to remote control camcorders and similar devices connected to your computer via an IEEE 1394 (aka Firewire) link.

This package includes the libraries and header files needed to compile programs using libavc1394, as well as the command line tool dvcont that acts as a simple remote control, the tool mkrfc2734 that is needed to advertise IP over IEEE 1394 (RFC 2734) capabilities with the Linux 2.4 kernel series, and the utility panelctl, a remote control for set-top boxes.

FFmpeg is the leading multimedia framework, able to decode, encode, transcode, mux, demux, stream, filter and play pretty much anything that humans and machines have created. It supports the most obscure ancient formats up to the cutting edge.

This library provides a generic encoding/decoding framework and contains multiple decoders and encoders for audio, video and subtitle streams, and several bitstream filters.

The shared architecture provides various services ranging from bit stream I/O to DSP optimizations, and makes it suitable for implementing robust and fast codecs as well as for experimentation.

This package contains the development files.

FFmpeg is the leading multimedia framework, able to decode, encode, transcode, mux, demux, stream, filter and play pretty much anything that humans and machines have created. It supports the most obscure ancient formats up to the cutting edge.

This metapackage depends on the latest version of the libavcodec variant that offers additional codec support. Application packages can depend on it if they require or suggest this variant in a robust manner.

FFmpeg is the leading multimedia framework, able to decode, encode, transcode, mux, demux, stream, filter and play pretty much anything that humans and machines have created. It supports the most obscure ancient formats up to the cutting edge.

This library provides a generic framework for grabbing from and rendering to many common multimedia input/output devices, and supports several input and output devices, including Video4Linux2, VfW, DShow, and ALSA.

This package contains the development files.

FFmpeg is the leading multimedia framework, able to decode, encode, transcode, mux, demux, stream, filter and play pretty much anything that humans and machines have created. It supports the most obscure ancient formats up to the cutting edge.

This library provides a generic audio/video filtering framework containing several filters, sources and sinks.

This package contains the development files.

FFmpeg is the leading multimedia framework, able to decode, encode, transcode, mux, demux, stream, filter and play pretty much anything that humans and machines have created. It supports the most obscure ancient formats up to the cutting edge.

This library provides a generic framework for multiplexing and demultiplexing (muxing and demuxing) audio, video and subtitle streams. It encompasses multiple muxers and demuxers for multimedia container formats. It also supports several input and output protocols to access a media resource.

This package contains the development files.

FFmpeg is the leading multimedia framework, able to decode, encode, transcode, mux, demux, stream, filter and play pretty much anything that humans and machines have created. It supports the most obscure ancient formats up to the cutting edge.

This library is a utility library to aid portable multimedia programming. It contains safe portable string functions, random number generators, data structures, additional mathematics functions, cryptography and multimedia related functionality (like enumerations for pixel and sample formats). It is not a library for code needed by both libavcodec and libavformat. The goal for this library is to be modular, small, efficient and useful.

This package contains the development files.

Babl is a dynamic, any to any, pixel format conversion library. It provides conversions between the myriad of buffer types images can be stored in. Babl doesn't only help with existing pixel formats, but also facilitates creation of new and uncommon ones.

This package contains the development files.

libbdplus is a research project to implement the BD+ System Specifications. It provides, through an open-source library, a way to understand how the BD+ works.

This package DOES NOT provide any key, certificate, configuration file or virtual machine that could be used to decode encrypted copyrighted material.

This package provides the development files for libbdplus0.

biTStream is a set of C headers allowing a simpler access to binary structures such as specified by MPEG, DVB, IETF, etc.

The goal of this package is to offer a simpler access that libdvbpsi does currently. This package is also lower level and more efficient: fewer memory allocations, fewer memory copies.

libbluray is an open-source library designed for Blu-Ray Discs playback for media players, like VLC or MPlayer. This research project is developed by an international team of developers from Doom9. libbluray integrates navigation, playlist parsing, menus, and BD-J.

NB: Most commercial Blu-Ray are restricted by AACS or BD+ technologies and this library is not enough to playback those discs.

This package provides a simple tool to retrieve information about a Blu-ray.

libbluray is an open-source library designed for Blu-Ray Discs playback for media players, like VLC or MPlayer. This research project is developed by an international team of developers from Doom9. libbluray integrates navigation, playlist parsing, menus, and BD-J.

NB: Most commercial Blu-Ray are restricted by AACS or BD+ technologies and this library is not enough to playback those discs.

This package provides the necessary files needed for development.

Chromaprint is a library for calculating audio fingerprints which are used by the Acoustid service. Its main purpose is to provide an accurate identifier for record tracks

This package includes development files needed to compile programs using libchromaprint.

Chromaprint is a library for calculating audio fingerprints which are used by the Acoustid service. Its main purpose is to provide an accurate identifier for record tracks

This package provides the fpcalc utility.

C++ wrapper around the ALSA API.

This package includes the development tools.

CLAM is a framework to develop audio and music applications in C++. It provides tools to perform advanced analysis, transformations and synthesis, visualization for audio and music related objects, and other tools that are useful to abstract target platform for most tasks in an audio applications such as audio devices, file formats, threading...

This is a development library package.

The CLAM framework can be used to develop rich real-time audio and music applications either by c++ programming or by visual means using the CLAM NetworkEditor.

This package provides the files to develop using modules provided by the clam-qtmonitors CLAM plugin.

C++ wrapper library around the POSIX threads API. POSIX threads C++ access library

This package provides the development headers.

C++ wrapper library around the X Window System API. X Window System C++ access library.

This package provides the development headers.

The Cover Art Archive (CAA) is a joint project between MusicBrainz and Internet Archive that provides a covert art image database for music releases. Libcoverart is a client library to access the data stored in the CAA.

This package contains the development files.

Crystal HD Solution is a product offered by Broadcom. It is used to enable flawless playback of 1080p high definition video across a wide range of systems.

This package contains the files necessary for development.

Dataquay is a library that provides a friendly C++ interface to an RDF (Resource Description Framework) datastore using Qt classes and containers. Supported datastores are the popular and feature-complete Redland and the lightweight Sord.

It is principally aimed at Qt-based applications.

This package contains the headers used to build applications that use libdataquay.

libde265 is an open source implementation of the H.265 video codec. It is written from scratch in plain C for simplicity and efficiency. Its simple API makes it easy to integrate it into other software.

The development headers for compiling programs that use libde265 are provided by this package.

Dirac is an advanced royalty-free video compression format designed for a wide range of uses, from delivering low-resolution web content to broadcasting HD and beyond, to near-lossless studio editing.

This package contains the files necessary for development with dirac.

libdiscid is a library for creating MusicBrainz DiscIDs from audio CDs. It reads a CD's table of contents (TOC) and generates an identifier which can be used to lookup the CD at MusicBrainz (http://musicbrainz.org). Additionally, it provides a submission URL for adding the DiscID to the database.

This is the development package which contains headers and libraries for libdiscid.

dleyna-connector-dbus is the loadable module providing DBus connectivity to the dLeyna services.

dLeyna is an umbrella project hosting a number of middleware components designed to make it easy for developers to integrate DLNA functionality into their applications.

dleyna-core is a library of utility functions that are used by the higher level dLeyna libraries that communicate with DLNA devices, e.g., dleyna-server. In brief, it provides APIs for logging, error, settings and task management and an IPC abstraction API.

dLeyna is an umbrella project hosting a number of middleware components designed to make it easy for developers to integrate DLNA functionality into their applications.

This package contains the development files.

This library is a C++ wrapper around the ALSA library sequencer interface, using Qt5 objects, idioms and style. ALSA sequencer provides software support for MIDI technology on Linux. Complementary classes for RMI and WRK file processing are also included.

This package provides the development files.

libdssialsacompat is simply an extraction from and repackaging of the code from alsa-lib, necessary to support DSSI on non-ALSA systems.

libdssialsacompat is intended to provide the snd_seq_event_t declarations and handling code necessary to compile and use DSSI on non-ALSA systems. It aims to allows compiling DSSI code with as little change as possible, while not presenting itself in such a way as to fool other autoconf-enabled code into thinking a system has ALSA.

This library does NOT provide any sort of emulation of the ALSA audio, MIDI, or sequencer devices. The only part of ALSA that is required by the DSSI specification is the snd_seq_event_t definition and handling, and that is all libdssialsacompat is intended to replace. Other ALSA code should be ported to native facilities.

This package provides the development files.

The Quasar DV Codec (libdv) is a software decoder for DV format video, as defined by the IEC 61834 and SMPTE 314M standards. DV is the encoding format used by consumer-grade digital camcorders.

This package contains sample programs for viewing (playdv), encoding (encodedv), transferring DV data (dvconnect) and insert audio into a DV stream (dubdv).

The Quasar DV Codec (libdv) is a software decoder for DV format video, as defined by the IEC 61834 and SMPTE 314M standards. DV is the encoding format used by consumer-grade digital camcorders.

This package contains the development headers and library files needed to compile programs using libdv.

libdvbcsa is a free implementation of the DVB Common Scrambling Algorithm with encryption and decryption capabilities.

It comes in two flavors: a classical single packet implementation and a faster parallel bitslice implementation.

This package provides the development files for libdvbcsa.

libdvbpsi is a simple library designed for MPEG TS and DVB PSI tables decoding and generating.

This package contains the header files and static library needed to compile applications that use libdvbpsi.

libdvdnav is a DVD navigation library, which provides an interface to the advanced features of DVDs, like menus and navigation. It contains the VM and other parts useful for writing DVD players. It's based on Ogle, but was modified to be used by xine and mplayer.

This package contains the development files.

libdvdread provides the functionality that is required to access many DVDs. It parses IFO files, reads NAV-blocks, and performs CSS authentication and descrambling.

This package contains the development files.

The libebml library allows one to read and write files using EBML (the Extensible Binary Meta Language), a binary pendant to XML. Using libebml makes it easier to extend a file format without breaking support in older parsers.

This package contains the header files and static libraries needed to compile applications that use libebml.

The European Broadcasting Union Loudness Recommendation (EBU R128) informs broadcasters how they can analyze and normalize audio so that each piece of audio sounds roughly the same volume to the human ear.

This C library provides an API which analyzes audio and outputs perceived loudness. The results can then be used to normalize volume during playback. This is an alternative to ReplayGain.

Features:

• Implements M, S and I modes
• Implements loudness range measurement (EBU - TECH 3342)
• True peak scanning
• Supports all samplerates by recalculation of the filter coefficients

This package contains the development files.

Ecasound is a software package designed for multitrack audio processing. It can be used for simple tasks like audio playback, recording and format conversions, as well as for multitrack effect processing, mixing, recording and signal recycling.

Ecasound supports a wide range of audio inputs, outputs and effect algorithms. Effects and audio objects can be combined in various ways, and their parameters can be controlled by operator objects like oscillators and MIDI-CCs.

This package provides ecasound's C library development files.

Most digital cameras produce EXIF files, which are JPEG files with extra tags that contain information about the image. The EXIF library allows you to parse an EXIF file and read the data from those tags.

This package contains the development files.

FAAD2 is the fastest ISO AAC audio decoder available. FAAD2 correctly decodes all MPEG-4 and MPEG-2 MAIN, LOW, LTP, LD and ER object type AAC files.

This package contains development files.

FFADO is a Linux driver for FireWire (IEEE1394) audio devices.

The FFADO library permits discovering and configuring such devices and provides an API for streaming clients.

This package holds the development files.

A cross platform ffmpeg wrapper library, and some additional content for things ffmpeg doesn't handle well. A more friendly API and an easy way to say "open and decompress this, I don't care how".

This package contain headers and other files needed to compile and link against libffms2.

FLAC stands for Free Lossless Audio Codec. Grossly oversimplified, FLAC is similar to MP3, but lossless. The FLAC project consists of:

• The stream format
• libFLAC, which implements a reference encoder, stream decoder, and file decoder
• flac, which is a command-line wrapper around libFLAC to encode and decode .flac files
• Input plugins for various music players (Winamp, XMMS, and more in the works)

This package contains the development library libFLAC++.

FLAC stands for Free Lossless Audio Codec. Grossly oversimplified, FLAC is similar to MP3, but lossless. The FLAC project consists of:

• The stream format
• libFLAC, which implements a reference encoder, stream decoder, and file decoder
• flac, which is a command-line wrapper around libFLAC to encode and decode .flac files
• Input plugins for various music players (Winamp, XMMS, and more in the works)

This package contains the development library libFLAC.

The purpose of Flake is to be an alternative to the FLAC reference encoder with the goal of increasing encoding speed and implementing experimental features.

Flake encodes WAV audio files into lossless FLAC files.

This package contains the static library and header files.

This package contains the header file and development library of gav1. Gav1 is A new decoder implementation for AV1 video encoding format (supporting profiles 0 and 1).

Gavl handles all the details of audio and video formats like colorspaces, samplerates, multichannel configurations etc. It provides standardized definitions for those formats as well as container structures for carrying audio samples or video images inside an application.

In addition, it handles the sometimes ugly task to convert between all these formats and provides some elementary operations (copying, scaling, alpha blending etc).

This package contains the files needed to compile and statically link against Gavl.

GEGL (Generic Graphics Library) is a graph based image processing framework.

GEGL's original design was made to scratch GIMP's itches for a new compositing and processing core. This core is being designed to have minimal dependencies and a simple well defined API.

This package contains the development files.

gexiv2 is a GObject-based wrapper around the Exiv2 library. It makes the basic features of Exiv2 available to GNOME applications.

This package contains the static library and header files.

libgig is a C++ library for loading, modifying and creating Gigasampler files and DLS (Downloadable Sounds) Level 1/2 files.

Since the Gigasampler / GigaStudio and DLS formats are based ontop of the binary RIFF container format, this library also provides convenient access to RIFF files in general.

This package also contains a Linux/POSIX ported version of libakai, which provides support for reading Akai formatted medias (CDRoms, HDs, Zip disks). Currently Akai S1000, S01, S2000 and S3000 series are supported.

This package contains the header files needed for development with libgig. You will need this only if you intend to compile programs that use this library.