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1. Awesome Java

Caching

• Ehcache - Distributed general-purpose cache.

CLI / Argument Parsing

• JCommander - Command-line argument-parsing framework with custom types and validation via implementing interfaces.

Code Analysis / Text-Based User Interfaces

• JSpecify - Standardized nullness annotations designed to work uniformly across various Java IDEs, compilers, and static analysis tools.

Code Formatting / Text-Based User Interfaces

• Spotless (⭐5.6k) - A versatile code formatter for Gradle and Maven that enforces multiple styles (including Google and Palantir) across Java and other languages.

Configuration / Text-Based User Interfaces

• ini4j - Provides an API for handling Windows' INI files.

CSV / Text-Based User Interfaces

• opencsv - Simple CSV parser.

Database / Text-Based User Interfaces

• JDBI - Convenient abstraction of JDBC.

• Liquibase - Database-independent library for tracking, managing and applying database schema changes.

• MapDB - Embedded database engine that provides concurrent collections backed on disk or in off-heap memory.

Distributed Applications / Text-Based User Interfaces

• Quasar - Lightweight threads and actors for the JVM.

Distribution / Text-Based User Interfaces

• IzPack - Setup authoring tool for cross-platform deployments.

Formal Verification / Text-Based User Interfaces

• OpenJML - Translates JML specifications into SMT-LIB format and passes the proof problems implied by the program to backend solvers. (GPL-2.0-only)

Functional Programming / Text-Based User Interfaces

• Functional Java (⭐1.6k) - Implements numerous basic and advanced programming abstractions that assist composition-oriented development.

Game Development / Text-Based User Interfaces

• JBox2D - Port of the renowned C++ 2D physics engine.

Geospatial / Text-Based User Interfaces

• H2GIS - Spatial extension of the H2 database. (LGPL-3.0-only)

High Performance / Text-Based User Interfaces

• fastutil - Fast and compact type-specific collections.

Introspection / Text-Based User Interfaces

• Objenesis - Allows dynamic instantiation without default constructor, e.g. constructors which have required arguments, side effects or throw exceptions.

JSON / Text-Based User Interfaces

• jsoniter - Fast and flexible library with iterator and lazy parsing API.

Logging / Text-Based User Interfaces

• Logback - Robust logging library with interesting configuration options via Groovy.

• SLF4J - Abstraction layer/simple logging facade.

Machine Learning / Text-Based User Interfaces

• DatumBox - Provides several algorithms and pre-trained models for natural language processing.

Messaging / Text-Based User Interfaces

• Hermes - Fast and reliable message broker built on top of Kafka.

Miscellaneous / Text-Based User Interfaces

• AISmessages (⭐168) - Decodes NMEA-armoured AIS messages for maritime navigation and safety systems with ITU-R M.1371 support and no runtime dependencies. (CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0)

• Explyt (⭐16) - AI coding agent for JetBrains IDEs that uses IDE indexes, refactorings, test runners, static analysis and debugging for Java and Kotlin projects.

• JCuda - JCuda offers Java bindings for CUDA and CUDA-related libraries.

• JPad - Snippet runner.

• OpenRefine - Tool for working with messy data: cleaning, transforming, extending it with web services and linking it to databases.

Natural Language Processing / Text-Based User Interfaces

• LingPipe - Toolkit for tasks ranging from POS tagging to sentiment analysis.

Networking / Text-Based User Interfaces

• Undertow - Web server providing both blocking and non-blocking APIs based on NIO. Used as a network layer in WildFly. (LGPL-2.1-only)

ORM / Text-Based User Interfaces

• Hibernate - Robust and widely used, with an active community. (LGPL-2.1-only)

Performance analysis / Text-Based User Interfaces

• JMH - Harness for building, running, and analysing nano/micro/milli/macro benchmarks written in Java and other languages targeting the JVM. (GPL-2.0 only WITH Classpath-exception-2.0)

Platform / Apache Commons

• BCEL - Byte Code Engineering Library - analyze, create, and manipulate Java class files.

• BeanUtils - Easy-to-use wrappers around the Java reflection and introspection APIs.

• BeanUtils2 - Redesign of Commons BeanUtils.

• BSF - Bean Scripting Framework - interface to scripting languages, including JSR-223.

• ClassScan - Find Class interfaces, methods, fields, and annotations without loading.

• CLI - Command-line arguments parser.

• CLI2 - Redesign of Commons CLI.

• Codec - General encoding/decoding algorithms, e.g. phonetic, base64 or URL.

• Collections - Extends or augments the Java Collections Framework.

• Compress - Defines an API for working with tar, zip and bzip2 files.

• Configuration - Reading of configuration/preferences files in various formats.

• Convert - Commons-Convert aims to provide a single library dedicated to the task of converting an object of one type to another.

• CSV - Component for reading and writing comma separated value files.

• Daemon - Alternative invocation mechanism for unix-daemon-like java code.

• DBCP - Database connection pooling services.

• DbUtils - JDBC helper library.

• Digester - XML-to-Java-object mapping utility.

• Email - Library for sending e-mail from Java.

• Exec - API for dealing with external process execution and environment management in Java.

• FileUpload - File upload capability for your servlets and web applications.

• Finder - Java library inspired by the UNIX find command.

• Flatfile - Java library for working with flat data structures.

• Graph - General purpose graph APIs and algorithms.

• I18n - Adds the feature of localized message bundles that consist of one or many localized texts that belong together.

• Id - Id is a component used to generate identifiers.

• Imaging - Image library.

• IO - Collection of I/O utilities.

• Javaflow - Continuation implementation to capture the state of the application.

• JCI - Java Compiler Interface.

• JCS - Java Caching System.

• Jelly - XML based scripting and processing engine.

• Jexl - Expression language which extends the Expression Language of the JSTL.

• JNet - JNet allows to use dynamically register url stream handlers through the java.net API.

• JXPath - Utilities for manipulating Java Beans using the XPath syntax.

• Lang - Provides extra functionality for classes in java.lang.

• Math - Lightweight, self-contained mathematics and statistics components.

• Monitoring - Monitoring aims to provide a simple but extensible monitoring solution for Java applications.

• Nabla - Nabla provides automatic differentiation classes that can generate derivative of any function implemented in the Java language.

• Net - Collection of network utilities and protocol implementations.

• OpenPGP - Interface to signing and verifying data using OpenPGP.

• Performance - Small framework for microbenchmark clients, with implementations for Commons DBCP and Pool.

• Pipeline - Provides a set of pipeline utilities designed around work queues that run in parallel to sequentially process data objects.

• Pool - Generic object pooling component.

• SCXML - Implementation of the State Chart XML specification aimed at creating and maintaining a Java SCXML engine.

• Validator - Framework to define validators and validation rules in an xml file.

• VFS - Virtual File System component for treating files, FTP, SMB, ZIP and such like as a single logical file system.

• Weaver - Provides an easy way to enhance (weave) compiled bytecode.

REST Frameworks / Other

• Spark - Sinatra inspired framework.

• Crnk (⭐291) - Implementation of the JSON API specification to build resource-oriented REST endpoints with sorting, filtering, paging, linking, object graphs, type-safety, bulk updates, integrations and more.

Science / Other

• GraphStream - Library for modeling and analyzing dynamic graphs.

• JFreeChart - 2D chart library for Swing, JavaFX and server-side applications. (LGPL-2.1-only)

Search / Other

• Viglet Turing ES (⭐0) - Self-hosted enterprise search platform with faceted, semantic and hybrid search, RAG, AI agents and pluggable Solr, Elasticsearch or Lucene backends.

Security / Other

• Passay - Enforce password policy by validating candidate passwords against a configurable rule set.

Testing / BDD

• JGiven - Provides a fluent API which allows for simpler composition.

Testing / Frameworks

• Apache JMeter - Functional testing and performance measurements.

• Arquillian - Integration and functional testing platform for Java EE containers.

• PIT - Fast mutation-testing framework for evaluating fault-detection abilities of existing JUnit or TestNG test suites.

Testing / Matchers

• Hamcrest - Matchers that can be combined to create flexible expressions of intent.

• JSONAssert - Simplifies testing JSON strings.

Testing / Mocking

• JMockit - Integration testing, API mocking and faking, and code coverage.

• WireMock - Stubs and mocks web services.

Utility / Mocking

• CRaSH - Provides a shell into a JVM that's running CRaSH. Used by Spring Boot and others. (LGPL-2.1-or-later)

Web Crawling / Mocking

• StormCrawler - SDK for building low-latency and scalable web crawlers.

Web Frameworks / Mocking

• Firefly - Asynchronous framework for rapid development of high-performance web application.

• Jooby - Scalable, fast and modular micro-framework that offers multiple programming models.

• Ninja - Full-stack web framework.

• Pippo (⭐786) - Small, highly modularized, Sinatra-like framework.

Podcasts and Screencasts / Mocking

• Java Off Heap

Websites / Socials

• TheServerSide.com

2. Awesome Cpp

Frameworks

• Apache C++ Standard Library - STDCXX, A collection of algorithms, containers, iterators, and other fundamental components. [retired] [Apache2]

• APR - Apache Portable Runtime. Another library of cross-platform utility functions. [Apache2]

• ASL - Adobe Source Libraries provides peer-reviewed and portable C++ source libraries. [MIT]

• Cxxomfort - A small, header-only library that backports various facilities from more recent C++ Standards to C++03 and later. [MIT]

• Loki - A C++ library of designs, containing flexible implementations of common design patterns and idioms. [MIT]

• Reason - A cross platform framework designed to bring the ease of use of Java, .Net, or Python to developers who require the performance and strength of C++. [GPL2]

• STLport - An exemplary version of STL. [Free]

• STXXL - Standard Template Library for Extra Large Data Sets. [Boost]

• Ultimate++ - A C++ cross-platform rapid application development framework. [BSD]

• Windows Template Library - A C++ library for developing Windows applications and UI components. [Public]

Artificial Intelligence

• Evolving Objects - A template-based, ANSI-C++ evolutionary computation library which helps you to write your own stochastic optimization algorithms insanely fast. [LGPL]

Asynchronous Event Loop

• libev - A full-featured and high-performance event loop that is loosely modelled after libevent, but without its limitations and bugs. [BSD and GPL]

• libevent - An event notification library. [BSD]

Audio

• FMOD - An easy to use crossplatform audio engine and audio content creation tool for games. [Free for non-commercial/Commercial]

• OpenAL - Open Audio Library - A crossplatform audio API. [BSD/LGPL/Proprietary]

• Opus - A totally open, royalty-free, highly versatile audio codec. [BSD]

• PortAudio - PortAudio is a free, cross-platform, open-source, audio I/O library. [MIT]

• Speex - A free codec for free speech. Obsoleted by Opus. [BSD]

• Vorbis - Ogg Vorbis is a fully open, non-proprietary, patent-and-royalty-free, general-purpose compressed audio format. [BSD]

Biology

• BioC++ - C++ Computational Libraries for Bioinformatics. [BSD]

• Chaste - An open source C++ library for the computational simulation of mathematical models developed for physiology and biology. [BSD]

• libsequence - A C++ library for representing and analyzing population genetics data. [GPL]

• SeqAn - Algorithms and data structures for the analysis of sequences with the focus on biological data. [BSD/3-clause]

CLI

• Ncurses - A terminal user interface. [MIT]

• TCLAP - A mature, stable and feature-rich library for defining and accessing command line arguments in ANSI C++. [MIT]

Compression

• bzip2 - A freely available, patent free, high-quality data compressor. [BSD]

• LZMAT - An extremely fast real-time lossless data compression library. [GPL]

• ZLib - A very compact compression library for data streams. [zlib]

• ZZIPlib - Provides read access on ZIP-archives. [MPL/LGPL]

Concurrency

• OpenMP - The OpenMP API.

• RaftLib - The RaftLib C++ library, streaming/dataflow concurrency via C++ iostream-like operators. [Apache2]

• Thrust - A parallel algorithms library which resembles the C++ Standard Template Library (STL). [Apache2]

• STAPL - A C++ parallel programming framework designed to work on both shared and distributed memory parallel computers. [BSD]

Cryptography

• Bcrypt - A cross platform file encryption utility. Encrypted files are portable across all supported operating systems and processors. [BSD]

• BeeCrypt - A portable and fast cryptography library. [LGPLv2.1+]

• Botan - A crypto library for C++. [BSD-2]

• GnuTLS - A secure communications library implementing the SSL, TLS and DTLS protocols. [LGPL2.1]

• Libgcrypt - A general purpose cryptographic library originally based on code from GnuPG. [LGPLv2.1+]

• LibreSSL - A free version of the SSL/TLS protocol forked from OpenSSL in 2014. [?]

• Nettle - A low-level cryptographic library. [LGPL]

Database

• MySQL++ - A C++ wrapper for MySQL's C API. [LGPL]

• SQLite - A completely embedded, full-featured relational database in a few 100k that you can include right into your project. [PublicDomain]

Debug

• CUTE - C++ Unit Testing Easier. [LGPL3]

• CppUnit - C++ port of JUnit. [LGPL2]

• Deleaker - A tool for resource leak detection, including memory, GDI and handle leaks.

Scientific Computing

• FFTW - A C library for computing the DFT in one or more dimensions. [GPL]

• GSL - GNU scientific library. [GPL]

Game Engine

• Allegro - A cross-platform library mainly aimed for video games and multimedia programming. [zlib]

• Cocos2d-x - A multi-platform framework for building 2d games, interactive books, demos and other graphical applications. [MIT]

• delta3d - A robust simulation platform. [LGPL2]

• Oxygine - A cross-platform 2D C++ game engine. [MIT]

GUI

• CEGUI - Flexible, cross-platform GUI library.

• FLTK - Fast, light, cross-platform C++ GUI toolkit. [LGPL2]

• FOX Toolkit - an open-source, cross-platform widget toolkit. [LGPL]

• GTK+ - A multi-platform toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces. [LGPL]

• gtkmm - The official C++ interface for the popular GUI library GTK+. [LGPL]

• QCustomPlot - Qt plotting widget without further dependencies. [GPLv3]

• Qwt - Qt Widgets for Technical Applications. [Own based on LGPL]

• QwtPlot3D - A feature-rich Qt/OpenGL-based C++ programming library, providing essentially a bunch of 3D-widgets. [zlib]

• Sciter - Sciter is an embeddable HTML/CSS/scripting engine aimed to be used as an UI layer of modern desktop applications. [Free/Commercial]

• wxWidgets - A C++ library that lets developers create applications for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and other platforms with a single code base. [Own LGPL]

Graphics

• Cairo - A 2D graphics library with support for multiple output devices. [LGPL2 or Mozilla MPL]

• Irrlicht - A high performance realtime 3D engine written in C++. [zlib]

• OpenSceneGraph - An open source high performance 3D graphics toolkit. [OSGPL]

• OpenVDB - Library and tools for storing, editing, and rendering volumetric datasets. [MPL2]

• Panda3D - A framework for 3D rendering and game development for Python and C++. [BSD]

Image Processing

• CImg - A small, open source, C++ toolkit for image processing. [Own LGPL or GPL]

• FreeImage - An open source library that supports popular graphics image formats and others as needed by today's multimedia applications. [GPL2 or GPL3]

• DCMTK - DICOM Toolkit.

• GDCM - Grassroots DICOM library.

• ITK - An open-source, cross-platform system for image analysis. [Apache2 from ITK 4.0]

• OpenEXR - Cross-platform library for high dynamic range imaging. [Modified BSDF]

• VTK - Open-source, freely available software system for 3D computer graphics, image processing and visualization. [BSD]

Internationalization

• gettext - GNU 'gettext'. [GPL2]

• IBM ICU - A set of C/C++ and Java libraries providing Unicode and Globalization support. [ICU]

• libiconv - An encoding conversion library between different character encodings. [GPL]

Inter-process communication

• WAMP - Provides RPC and pub/sub messaging patterns. (various implementations, various languages)

• xmlrpc-c - A lightweight RPC library based on XML and HTTP. [BSD]

JSON

• libjson - Lightweight JSON library. [?]

Logging

• Log4cpp - A library of C++ classes for flexible logging to files, syslog, IDSA and other destinations. [LGPL]

• templog - A very small and lightweight C++ library which you can use to add logging to your C++ applications. [Boost]

• P7Baical - An open source and cross-platform library for high-speed sending telemetry & trace data with minimal usage of CPU and memory. [LGPL]

Math

• ceres-solver - C++ library for modeling and solving large complicated nonlinear least squares problems from google. [BSD]

• Eigen - A high-level C++ library of template headers for linear algebra, matrix and vector operations, numerical solvers and related algorithms. [MPL2]

• GMTL - Graphics Math Template Library is a collection of tools implementing Graphics primitives in generalized ways. [GPL2]

• Versor - A (fast) Generic C++ library for Geometric Algebras, including Euclidean, Projective, Conformal, Spacetime (etc).

Multimedia

• GStreamer - A library for constructing graphs of media-handling components. [LGPL]

• LIVE555 Streaming Media - Multimedia streaming library using open standard protocols (RTP/RTCP, RTSP, SIP). [LGPL]

Networking

• ACE - An OO Network Programming Toolkit in C++. [?MIT?]

• cpp-netlib - A collection of open-source libraries for high level network programming. [Boost]

• libcurl - Multiprotocol file transfer library. [MIT/X derivate license]

• Libmicrohttpd - GNU libmicrohttpd is a small C library that is supposed to make it easy to run an HTTP server as part of another application. [LGPL v2.1+]

• lwIP - A lightweight TCP/IP stack. [Modified BSD]

PDF

• PoDoFo - A library to work with the PDF file format. [LGPL]

• DynaPDF - An easy-to-use PDF generation library. [Commercial]

Physics

• ODE - Open Dynamics Engine - An open source, high performance library for simulating rigid body dynamics. [BSD&LGPL]

Regular Expression

• PCRE - A regular expression C library inspired by the regular expression capabilities in Perl. [BSD]

Robotics

• MOOS-IvP - A set of open source C++ modules for providing autonomy on robotic platforms, in particular autonomous marine vehicles.

• MRPT - Mobile Robot Programming Toolkit. [BSD]

• Robotics Library (RL) - A self-contained C++ library for robot kinematics, motion planning and control. [BSD]

• ROS - Robot Operating System provides libraries and tools to help software developers create robot applications. [BSD]

Scripting

• Lua - A minimal and fast scripting engine for configuration files and basic application scripting. [MIT]

Serialization

• Kaitai Struct - A declarative language to describe various binary data structures and a compiler to generate C++ parser code. [GPLv3+][MIT][Apache2]

Video

• libvpx - VP8/VP9 Codec SDK. [BSD]

• Theora - A free and open video compression format. [BSD]

Web Application Framework

• CppCMS - A Free High Performance Web Development Framework (not a CMS). [LGPLv3]

• libOnion - lightweight library to help you create webservers in C programming language. [LGPLv3]

• Wt - A C++ library for developing web applications. [GPL/Proprietary]

XML

• Expat - An XML parser library written in C. [MIT]

• Libxml2 - The XML C parser and toolkit of Gnome. [MIT]

• libxml++ - An XML Parser for C++. [LGPL2]

• PugiXML - A light-weight, simple and fast XML parser for C++ with XPath support. [MIT]

• RapidXml - An attempt to create the fastest XML parser possible, while retaining useability, portability and reasonable W3C compatibility. [Boost]

• TinyXML - A simple, small, minimal, C++ XML parser that can be easily integrating into other programs. [zlib]

• Xerces-C++ - A validating XML parser written in a portable subset of C++. [Apache2]

Miscellaneous

• American fuzzy lop a.k.a. afl-fuzz - Crazy fuzzing tool that automatically discovers bugs given time and minimal example input. [Apache2]

• Better String - An alternative to the string library for C which is more functional and does not have buffer overflow overrun problems. Also includes a C++ wrapper. [BSD, GPL2]

• FastFormat - Fast, Safe C++ Formatting inspired by log4j and Pantheios. [Simplified BSD]

• Remote Call Framework - Inter-process communication framework for C++. [GPL2/Proprietary]

• Scintilla - A free source code editing component. [MIT]

• sigslot - C++ Signal/Slot Library. [PublicDomain]

• ZBar - A barcode scanner library, which allows to scan photos/images/video streams for barcodes and return their value. [LGPL2]

Compiler

• Clang - A C compiler for LLVM. Supports C++11/14/1z C11. Developed by LLVM Team. [NCSA]

• LLVM - Collection of modular and reusable compiler and toolchain technologies.

• Oracle Solaris Studio - C, C++ and Fortran compiler for SPARC and x86. Supports C++11. Available on Linux and Solaris. [OTN Developer License]

• TCC - Tiny C Compiler. [LGPL]

Online Compiler

• coliru - Online compiler/shell with support for various C++ compilers.

• Compiler Explorer - An interactive compiler with assembly output available.

• CompileOnline - Compile and Execute C++ online on Linux.

• Ideone - An online compiler and debugging tool which allows you to compile source code and execute it online in more than 60 programming languages.

• Rextester - Online compiler which provides several compilers(Clang, GCC, MSVC) and several editors.

Debugger

• LLDB - The LLDB Debugger.

• Valgrind - A tool for memory debugging, memory leak detection, and profiling.

• x64dbg - An open-source x64/x32 debugger for windows.

Integrated Development Environment

• AppCode - an IDE for Objective-C, C, C++, and JavaScript development built on JetBrains’ IntelliJ IDEA platform.

• CLion - Cross-platform C and C++ IDE from JetBrains.

• Code::Blocks - A free C, C++ and Fortran IDE.

• CodeLite - Another cross-platform, free C and C++ IDE. [GPL2 with an exception for plugins]

• Dev-C++ - A portable C/C++/C++11 IDE.

• Eclipse CDT - A fully functional C and C++ IDE based on the Eclipse platform.

• Geany - Small, fast, cross-platform IDE. [GPL]

• IBM VisualAge - A family of computer integrated development environments from IBM.

Build Systems

• FASTBuild - High performance, open-source build system supporting highly scalable compilation, caching and network distribution.

• MesonBuild - An open source build system meant to be both extremely fast, and, even more importantly, as user friendly as possible.

• Scons - A software construction tool configured with a Python script.

• tup - File-based build system that monitors in the background for changed files.

• Premake - A tool configured with a Lua script to generate project files for Visual Studio, GNU Make, Xcode, Code::Blocks, and more across Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.

Static Code Analysis

• Cppcheck - A tool for static C/C++ code analysis. - source (⭐6.7k)

• PVS-Studio - A tool for bug detection in the source code of programs, written in C, C++ and C#.

• OCLint - A static source code analysis tool to improve quality and reduce defects for C, C++ and Objective-C. - source (⭐3.9k)

• Clang Static Analyzer - A source code analysis tool that finds bugs in C, C++, and Objective-C programs.

• Linticator - Eclipse CDT integration of Pc-/FlexeLint.

Coding Style Tools

• Artistic Style - A tool to format C/C++/C#/Obj-C/Java code. Also known as astyle.

• ClangFormat - A tool to format C/C++/Obj-C code.

• Clang-Tidy - Clang-based C++ linter tool.

API Design

• Beautiful Native Libraries

Articles

• C++ 17 Features - A comprehensive list of C++17 features.

Coding Style

• C++ Dos and Don'ts - The Chromium Projects > For Developers > Coding Style > C++ Dos and Don'ts.

• GNU Coding Standard

• LLVM Coding Standards

Podcasts

• CppCast - The first podcast by C++ developers for C++ developers.

• CppChat - A (sometimes) weekly look at what's going on in the world of C++ chatting with a guest from the community.

Websites

• CppCon - The C++ Conference.

• C++ by Example - Learn C++ by Example.

• cplusplus.com - The C++ Resources Network.

• C FAQ - C frequently asked questions.

• C++ FAQ - C++ frequently asked questions.

• C++ FQA Lite - C++ frequently questioned answers.

• Guru of the Week - A regular series of C++ programming problems created and written by Herb Sutter.

• Meeting C++

• C++ Hints - Every business day hints about most often C++ mistakes and ways to solve them from PVS-Studio Team.

Weblogs

• Eric Niebler

• Paul Fultz II's Blog

• ridiculousfish - Will It Optimize?

• Embedded in Academia

Other Awesome Projects

• Inqlude - The Qt library archive.

3. Awesome Data Engineering

Data Ingestion

• faucet-stream (⭐7) - Config-driven data-movement platform for Rust with pluggable source and sink connectors, running ETL, CDC, and streaming pipelines declaratively from YAML or embedded as a library.

Serialization format

• ParquetKit - Browser-based viewer, SQL workbench and converter for Parquet files powered by DuckDB-WASM. Fully client-side, no upload.

Workflow

• Nika (⭐25) - Intent-as-code workflow engine for AI data pipelines: reviewable YAML DAGs statically checked (schema, permits, cost floor) before execution, with tamper-evident run traces.

4. Awesome Docker

Good Tips / Wrappers

• Docker Caveats What You Should Know About Running Docker In Production (written 11 APRIL 2016).

• GUI Apps with Docker

5. Awesome Artificial Intelligence

Learn / Books

• Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction: Sutton and Barto's foundational treatment of reinforcement learning concepts and algorithms.

• Speech and Language Processing: The continuously updated NLP reference by Dan Jurafsky and James Martin.

Learn / Courses

• Fast.ai Practical Deep Learning: A code-first introduction to deep learning.

• Karpathy's Neural Networks: Zero to Hero: Build neural networks and language models from first principles.

• Stanford CS336: Language Modeling from Scratch: Build language models from data preparation through evaluation and deployment.

• MIT 6.S191: Introduction to Deep Learning: Deep learning foundations and applications.

• Made With ML: An open course on designing, developing, deploying, and iterating on production ML systems.

Learn / Foundational papers

• Training Compute-Optimal Large Language Models: Showed how model size and training data should scale together under a compute budget.

• Retrieval-Augmented Generation: Combined parametric language models with external retrieval for knowledge-intensive tasks.

• LoRA: Introduced low-rank adaptation for parameter-efficient model fine-tuning.

• Training Language Models to Follow Instructions with Human Feedback: Established the instruction tuning and RLHF recipe used by InstructGPT.

• ReAct: Combined reasoning traces with actions for tool-using language-model agents.

• Direct Preference Optimization: Reframed preference alignment as a simple classification objective without explicit reward modelling.

Build AI systems / Guides and playbooks

• Building Effective Agents: Anthropic's practical patterns and tradeoffs for agentic systems.

• A Practical Guide to Building Agents: OpenAI's guide to models, tools, instructions, orchestration, and guardrails.

Build AI systems / LLM application engineering

• Anthropic Prompt Engineering: Techniques for defining success criteria, testing prompts, and improving model behaviour.

• Effective Context Engineering for AI Agents: How to select, structure, and manage the context available to long-running agents.

• 12-Factor Agents (⭐24k): Practical principles for building controllable LLM applications around deterministic software.

• OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications: Risks and mitigations for developing and deploying generative AI applications.

Build AI systems / Agent frameworks

• Pydantic AI: Typed agent development built around Pydantic.

• LangGraph: Low-level orchestration for long-running, stateful agents.

• OpenAI Agents SDK: A small SDK for tools, handoffs, guardrails, tracing, and agent orchestration.

• Google Agent Development Kit: Google's framework for developing and evaluating agents.

• Microsoft Agent Framework: Microsoft's successor to AutoGen and Semantic Kernel for agents and graph-based workflows.

Build AI systems / Durable and asynchronous agents

• Effective Harnesses for Long-Running Agents: Patterns for agents that make progress across multiple context windows and recover from failure.

• Running Agents: Lifecycle, session, exception, and durable-execution patterns in the OpenAI Agents SDK.

• Human-in-the-Loop: Pause, inspect, approve, reject, and resume tool calls without losing agent state.

• Gemini and Temporal Durable Agent: A concrete implementation of durable execution, retries, and human approval for an agent workflow.

Build AI systems / Retrieval and data

• LlamaIndex: Data ingestion, indexing, retrieval, and agent workflows.

• Haystack: Modular pipelines for retrieval and generative AI applications.

Build AI systems / Evals and reliability

• Demystifying Evals for AI Agents: A practical method for building task suites, graders, transcripts, and evaluation harnesses.

• Promptfoo: Test cases, assertions, model comparisons, and red-team checks for LLM applications.

• Ragas: Evaluation and experimentation for retrieval and generative AI applications.

Build AI systems / Deployment and observability

• Langfuse: Tracing, evaluation, prompt management, and metrics for LLM applications.

• vLLM: An inference and serving engine for language models.

• LiteLLM: A model gateway and unified interface for multiple model providers.

Agentic software engineering / Coding agents

• GitHub Copilot coding agent: An asynchronous agent that works from GitHub issues and opens pull requests.

Agentic software engineering / Software factories and agent orchestration

• Harness Engineering: OpenAI's field report on building software with coding agents, repository constraints, automated checks, and human steering.

• Codex Orchestration with Symphony: A reference architecture that turns project work into isolated, observable coding-agent runs.

• How We Built Our Multi-Agent Research System: Production lessons on orchestrator-worker agents, parallel search, evaluation, and operational reliability.

Contributing / Software factories and agent orchestration

• serve software developers learning or practising AI engineering;

• provide technical or practical value beyond a product homepage;

• be current and maintained, unless its value is foundational and durable;

• add something meaningfully different from the existing entries;

• use a factual description supported by a primary source.

6. Quick Look Plugins

License

Burrete (⭐38)

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7. Awesome Embedded Rust

Tools / Paid and commercially available materials

• scope (⭐37) Cross-platform serial-monitor TUI with an RTT interface (via probe-rs), hex/@tag input macros, search, session recording, and Lua plugins. -

no-std crates / WIP

• 🤖 krypteia: Pure-Rust no_std post-quantum (ML-KEM/ML-DSA/SLH-DSA) and classical cryptography, side-channel hardened, zero-dependency.

Firmware projects / WIP

• 🤖 RS-Key (⭐89): no_std FIDO2/WebAuthn + U2F security-key firmware for the RP2350, built on embassy; also implements OpenPGP, PIV and OATH.

8. Awesome Video

Encoding & Codecs

• AMF Encoder Developer Guide (Wiki) (⭐734) - Official AMF wiki guide for developers building video codec encoder applications with AMD's Advanced Media Framework SDK - covers encoder component setup, property configuration, and submission/polling workflow. Companion documentation to the AMF SDK repository entry.

• Dolby Vision Professional Decoder Plugin (⭐17) - DolbyLaboratories/dolby_vision_professional_decoder_plugin - A GitHub repository for video/multimedia development.

• FFmpeg - A free and open-source software project consisting of a suite of libraries and programs for handling video, audio, and other multimedia files and streams. It is widely used for format transcoding, basic editing, and standards compliance.

• H.264 profiles and levels | Inside & Outside MediaCoder - Explains H.264 encoding profiles and levels, helping developers choose appropriate settings for compatibility and quality.

• libaom: AV1 Codec Library - Libaom is the official AOMedia video codec library for AV1. It provides the tools necessary for encoding and decoding AV1 video streams, offering a royalty-free alternative to other codecs with improved compression efficiency.

Next-Generation Codecs AV1 VVC

• avm (AOM Video Model) — AV2 reference codec (⭐189) - AOMedia's reference encoder/decoder for the next-gen AV2 codec (successor to AV1); experimental research codebase with first 1.0.0 tag.

• GstH266Enc (⭐11) - InterDigital GStreamer plugin wrapping a VVC/H.266 encoder (vvenc or uvg266) for pipeline-based encoding, Meson build.

• SVT-AV1-Essential (⭐220) - Streamlined SVT-AV1 encoder fork with sensible defaults and quality-of-life improvements tuned for non-low-latency high-resolution encoding.

• svt-av1-hdr (⭐226) - SVT-AV1 fork with perceptual, HDR, and film-grain optimizations from ex-PSY team members, tuned for high-fidelity AV1 encoding.

• Tencent O266player (⭐437) - CPU-efficient H.266/VVC decoder (O266dec) integrated into a modified VLC player for real-time VVC playback.

• VVC/H.266 in GStreamer 1.26 (Igalia) - Technical writeup on VVC/H.266 support landing in GStreamer 1.26, covering avdec_h266, vvdec, and Intel hardware vah266dec decode elements.

Encoding Tools

• Android FFmpeg Transcoder (⭐32) - An Android library for performing video transcoding on-device, leveraging FFmpeg (or MediaCodec) to extract frames or encode videos on Android.

• Arch FFmpeg GPAC (⭐3) - A ready-prepared video transcoding pipeline to create DASH/ HLS compatible video files & playlists.

• Avtk (⭐13)

• avTranscoder (⭐167) - C++ wrapper providing a high-level API around FFmpeg and LibAV for video transcoding tasks.

• CloudTranscode (⭐299) - Distributed videos and images encoding/transcoding using Amazon SFN, FFmpeg and ImageMagic.

• Django Video Encoding (⭐121) - Django-video-encoding helps to convert your videos into different formats and resolutions.

• Docker Java Media (⭐1) - JRE 10 (Java 10) and media tools (FFmpeg).

• Fflock (⭐6) - Distributed video transcoding.

• Ffmediaelement (⭐1.3k) - FFME: The Advanced WPF MediaElement (based on FFmpeg).

• FFmpeg Android Java (⭐3.3k) - Android java library for FFmpeg binary compiled using HTTPS://GitHub.com/writingminds/FFmpeg-android.

• Flowblade (⭐3.1k)

• Liquid Dl (⭐70) - Liquid-dl is a simple tool for utlities such as FFmpeg, YouTube-dl, and scdl. It provides a simple framework with simple point and click options allowing users to just click on what they need and u..

• Lossless Cut (⭐42k)

• Manifesto (⭐17) - An HLS tool for creating multiple variants, a master.m3u8 file, and converting 608 captions to segmented webvtt subtitles via FFmpeg.

• Mlt (⭐1.8k) - Cross-platform multimedia framework for video editing, processing, and playback applications.

• Moviepy (GitHub) (⭐15k)

• MP4Box JS (⭐2.4k) - JavaScript version of GPAC's MP4Box tool.

• Pitivi - A free, open source video editor for Linux built on the GStreamer framework, focusing on an intuitive user interface and integration with GNOME.

• RxFFmpeg (⭐4.7k) - 是基于 ( FFmpeg 4.0 + X264 + mp3lame + fdk-aac ).

• Voctomix (⭐632) - Full-HD Software Live-Video-Mixer in Python.

Encoding Tools / FFmpeg

• ab-av1 (⭐937) - CLI tool for AV1 (and x264/x265) re-encoding using fast VMAF sampling plus automatic CRF binary search to hit a target quality. Wraps FFmpeg/svt-av1/vmaf.

• Alpine Bento FFmpeg (⭐1) - Alpine Linux with FFmpeg, Bento, and PM2.

• Awesome FFmpeg (⭐1.2k) - A curated list of awesome FFmpeg resources.

• AWS Lambda FFmpeg (⭐866) - An S3-triggered Amazon Web Services Lambda function that runs your choice of FFmpeg 🎬 commands on a file 🎥 and uploads the outputs to a bucket.

• FFCommand Engine (⭐30) - Create and execute FFmpeg commands.

• FFmbc (⭐199) - FFmpeg customized for broadcast and professional usage.

• FFmpeg (FFmpeg) (⭐62k) - Mirror of git://source.FFmpeg.org/FFmpeg.git.

• FFmpeg (GitHub) (⭐1.6k) - Docker build for FFmpeg on Ubuntu / Alpine / CentOS 7 / Scratch.

• FFmpeg AWS Lambda Layer (⭐439) - FFmpeg/FFprobe AWS Lambda layer.

• FFmpeg Bitrate Stats (⭐161) - Calculate bitrate statistics using FFmpeg.

• FFmpeg Build Script (⭐1.2k) - An easy way to build a static FFmpeg on macOS and Linux with non-free codecs included.

• FFmpeg CLI Wrapper (⭐1.9k) - Java wrapper around the FFmpeg command line tool.

• FFmpeg Debug Qp (⭐80) - FFmpeg Debug Script for QP Values.

• FFmpeg iOS Build Script (⭐3.1k) - Shell scripts to build FFmpeg for iOS and tvOS.

• FFmpeg JS (⭐3.5k) - Port of FFmpeg with Emscripten.

• FFmpeg Libvpx HDR Static (⭐18) - A script to build a static binary of FFmpeg optimised for libvpx (HDR 10bit) encoding.

• FFmpeg Nvidia Adaptive VOD Transcoder (⭐10) - Bash script which will detect video new file in folder and transcode it to adaprive bitrate.

• FFmpeg Patch (⭐65) - This repository contains a collection of FFmpeg* patches and samples to enable CNN model based video analytics capabilities (such as object detection, classification, recognition) in FFmpeg* framew..

• FFmpeg Python (kkroening) (⭐11k)

• FFmpeg Transcoder (⭐14) - Video transcode based on FFmpeg, support H264/HEVC and more.

• FFmpeg Windows Build Helpers (⭐1.2k) - Helper script for cross compiling some media tools for windows, like customizable FFmpeg.exe (with or without non-free components, etc), and some other bonuses like mplayer, mp4box, mxf, etc. - rdp..

• FFmpeg-REST — FFmpeg REST API with job queue (⭐13) - FFmpeg REST API (Node/Hono/BullMQ) with async jobs, stateless and S3-compatible storage modes.

• FFmpeg-suite-rs (⭐10) - Async builder-pattern Rust wrapper over the FFmpeg CLI with crates for transcoding/filtering, ffprobe inspection, and ffplay playback, plus VAAPI/NVENC/QSV hardware acceleration.

• FFmpeg.WebAssembly-st — single-thread FFmpeg.WebAssembly (⭐0) - Single-thread FFmpeg.WebAssembly variant for browser and node, avoiding SharedArrayBuffer/COOP-COEP requirements.

• Ffmpeg4java (⭐47) - A JNI wrapper of FFmpeg library.

• Ffmpy (⭐521)

• H265ize (⭐526) - A node utility utilizing FFmpeg to encode videos with the hevc codec.

• Imageio FFmpeg (⭐296) - Python wrapper around FFmpeg for video processing. Simplifies FFmpeg integration in Python applications.

• Node FFmpeg Stream (⭐142) - Node.js bindings to FFmpeg command, exposing stream based API.

• Node Fluent FFmpeg (⭐8.3k) - A fluent API to FFmpeg (HTTP://www.FFmpeg.org).

• Python FFmpeg (⭐384) - A Python interface for FFmpeg using asyncio.

• rsmpeg (⭐877) - Rust crate exposing the FFmpeg libav C API safely; actively maintained with FFmpeg 6/7 support for building multimedia apps.

• serverless-FFmpeg — AWS Lambda transcoding (⭐18) - AWS Lambda function for event-driven FFmpeg transcoding, configurable per-input/output CLI options.

• Sffmpeg (⭐136) - Full-featured static FFmpeg build helper.

• spireav — graph-based Go transcoding library (⭐5) - Go transcoding library to build FFmpeg filter graphs programmatically and monitor progress.

• Swift Encoder (⭐5) - A fire-and-forget shell script that encodes multiple video and audio files with FFmpeg.

• Transcoding (⭐2) - FFmpeg transcoders benchmark. Contribute to AlvianPrasetya/transcoding development by creating an account on GitHub.

• Transcoding FFmpeg (⭐1) - Transcoding video usando FFmpeg.

• Useful FFmpeg Commands (⭐176) - A collection of FFmpeg commands taken from practice.

• VP9 Dash (⭐1) - FFmpeg wrapper script to create VP9 MPEG-DASH packages.

Hardware Accelerated Transcoding / FFmpeg

• FFmpeg-rockchip — Rockchip MPP+RGA FFmpeg Fork (⭐1.3k) - FFmpeg fork with async zero-copy Rockchip MPP + RGA integration, exposing h264_rkmpp/hevc_rkmpp/vp9_rkmpp codecs for full hardware transcode.

• GMAT — NVIDIA GPU media processing toolkit (⭐194) - NVIDIA datacenter GPU video/image processing and transcode toolkit (formerly FFmpeg-gpu-demo) with smart decode and HEIF via NVENC/NVDEC.

• go-livepeer — decentralized GPU transcoding (⭐584) - Go implementation of the Livepeer protocol with Broadcaster/Orchestrator/Transcoder roles enabling split-farm remote multi-GPU video transcoding over streaming RPC.

• Granite — Vulkan engine with zero-copy GPU video decode (⭐1.9k) - Vulkan rendering engine with GPU video decode to RGB with no memory round-trip (ffmpeg_decode), by Hans-Kristian Arntzen.

• Hardware-Assisted Video Transcoding At Dailymotion - What if you could save time, power consumption and therefore money, while still keeping a decent quality for your converted video ?

• HWEncoderX (⭐23) - Docker container for automatic H.265 video transcoding using GPU hardware acceleration (VAAPI for Intel/AMD, NVENC for NVIDIA, Intel Quick Sync). Includes Telegram notifications, quality optimization, and constant monitoring of input directories.

• NVEnc / NVEncC — NVENC transcode CLI (⭐1.3k) - Actively maintained NVENC-based transcoding CLI (NVEncC) supporting H.264/HEVC/AV1 with low-latency mode and rich hardware filtering.

• Vaapi Video Converter (⭐5) - A docker-based video converter that uses VAAPI-compatible hardware for transcoding.

Multi-format Packaging Tools / FFmpeg

• GPAC (⭐3.3k) - Multimedia framework for MP4, DASH, and HLS packaging, streaming, and playback with MPEG-4 Systems support.

• HLS To Dash (⭐40) - Open source packager and tools to rewrap live HLS to live MPEG DASH.

• mediagoom/mg — static MP4→DASH/HLS packager (⭐29) - Node static packager converting MP4 into MPEG-DASH and HLS.

• OTT Packager (⭐245) - OTT/ABR streaming encoder (H264/HEVC) and packager for DASH and HLS.

• Python FFmpeg Video Streaming (aminyazdanpanah) (⭐860) - Package media content for online streaming(DASH and HLS) using FFmpeg.

• Transcode Web Video (⭐3) - Quickly transcode a source video to MP4, OGV, and WebM, with scale, bitrate, and screengrab options.

• VideoTranscoding Backend (⭐5) - This application transcode a video that you send on all formats what you want and diferent resolutions.

Codecs / AV1

• aom-av1-lavish — tuned aomenc fork (⭐60) - Fork of libaom/aomenc hyper-tuned for perceptual fidelity using butteraugli, VMAF and SSIMULACRA2 rate-distortion optimization.

• grav1synth — AV1 Grain Synthesis Analyzer/Editor (⭐90) - Rust tool to extract, strip, and estimate film-grain synthesis tables from encoded AV1 files by comparing source vs denoised diffs.

• Jean-Marc Valin — Core Coding Tools in AV1 (paper) - Free technical paper on AV1 core coding tools (partition trees, MV referencing) by the Opus/Daala codec engineer.

• rav1d — memory-safe AV1 decoder in Rust (⭐640) - A Rust port of the dav1d AV1 decoder by ISRG/Prossimo, providing a memory-safe, performance-competitive decoder for the AV1 codec.

• rav1e_js (⭐3) - JavaScript/WebAssembly bindings for the rav1e AV1 encoder, enabling in-browser AV1 encoding.

• SVT-AV1-PSY — psychovisual SVT-AV1 fork (⭐400) - Community fork of SVT-AV1 adding psychovisual fidelity enhancements (perceptual tuning, metrics) that are being upstreamed to the mainline encoder.

• SVT-AV1-PSYEX (⭐182) - Actively-maintained fork of SVT-AV1 with psychovisual tuning; improves default perceptual quality settings. Successor to the discontinued psy-ex fork.

• VersatileFilmGrain (InterDigital) (⭐10) - Software model of hardware-friendly film grain synthesis supporting MPEG FGC SEI and AOM/AV1 parameters, from InterDigital R&D.

• wav1c — Wondrous AV1 Coder (⭐14) - Spec-compliant AV1 encoder written from scratch in safe Rust with zero dependencies; usable as a library, via C FFI, WebAssembly, or as an FFmpeg plugin, with HDR10/10-bit support.

Codecs / VP9

• ASWF Encoding Guidelines: Encode VP9 - Academy Software Foundation's community encoding guide for VP9, including 10-bit/HDR workflow guidance.

• Google: VP9 Settings for VOD - Google's per-resolution bitrate/CRF/tile-columns recommendation table for VP9 VOD encoding.

• WebM Project: VP9 Encoding Guide (FFmpeg) - Official WebM project wiki guide to encoding VP9 via FFmpeg, covering CQ/CBR modes, tiling, and row-mt options.

Comparative Analysis of Codecs / HEVC

• Audio Codec Benchmark (⭐41) - Comprehensive Python-based quantitative comparison tool for lossless and lossy audio codecs. Benchmarks compression ratio, bitrate, encoding/decoding speed across multiple formats including FLAC, Opus, Vorbis, AAC, and more.

• Benchmarking Conventional and Learned Video Codecs (Low-Delay) - Academic study benchmarking VVC VTM, JVET ECM, libaom AV1, AVM and neural DCVC codecs in low-delay config with BD-rate on PSNR/SSIM/VMAF.

• Block-Partitioning Strategies for Accelerated Multi-rate Encoding in Adaptive VVC Streaming - 2025 arXiv paper on VVC encoder speed/efficiency techniques specifically for adaptive bitrate streaming ladders.

• codec-compare (WebM Project) (⭐8) - Official WebM Project static front-end visualization framework for aggregating and presenting codec performance comparison data (AV1/AVIF/WebP).

• codec-comparisons (Kim2091) (⭐2) - Active repo testing NVENC, QuickSync, AMF, and CPU encoders at matched bitrates for visual quality comparison.

• codec-eval (⭐1) - Rust codec comparison harness computing SSIMULACRA2 and Butteraugli for dual-metric artifact analysis across encoders.

• Evaluation of Hardware-based Video Encoders on Modern GPUs for UHD Live-Streaming - 2025 paper benchmarking NVENC, QuickSync, and AMF hardware encoders on modern GPUs for UHD live streaming.

• MainConcept Codec Comparison Tool - Professional HEVC/H.265 and AVC/H.264 video encoding quality evaluation tool integrated with FFmpeg. Includes VMAF and PSNR metric generation, supports objective quality analysis and performance benchmarking for transcoding workflows.

• Performance Comparison of VVC, AV1, HEVC, and AVC for High Resolutions - Open-access 2024 journal paper with direct BD-rate/complexity comparison of VVC, AV1, HEVC, and AVC at high resolutions.

• Reducing AV1 Decoder Complexity and Energy Consumption via Encoder Parameter Tuning - 2025 empirical study (Google/YouTube-backed) on tuning AV1 encoder parameters to reduce decoder-side complexity and energy use.

• SINRG-Lab/Video-Codec-Evaluation (⭐12) - FFmpeg pipeline computing MS-SSIM/PSNR/VMAF for H264/H265/VP9/AV1 with RD-plot analysis via a plotter script.

Benchmarking & Performance Tools for Codecs / HEVC

• aom_analyzer (⭐1) - CLI AV1 bitstream analyzer for inspecting sequence, frame, tile, and superblock structure of AOM AV1 streams.

• av1parser (⭐42) - Rust AV1 bitstream parser that dissects OBU/header structure for low-level stream inspection (not a full decoder).

• FAU-LMS/bjontegaard — BD-Rate Python Library (⭐41) - Pip-installable BD-rate calculator with cubic-spline/PCHIP/Akima interpolation plus RCD plots; PCHIP matches Excel to 10 decimals.

• IENT/RDPlot — Rate-Distortion Plotting Tool (⭐36) - Qt GUI that parses encoder logs from reference software (HM/VTM/etc) and plots rate-distortion curves.

• Proryanator/encoder-benchmark — Realtime HW Encode Benchmark (⭐109) - Rust tool benchmarking real-time hardware encode fps, with permutor-cli automating bitrate/resolution/fps/quality permutation testing.

• tdaede/rd_tool — AWCY Encode Backend (⭐21) - Encode/decode/metrics job-distribution backend for Are We Compressed Yet, distributing codec RD tests over worker cores.

• Transcoding Performance Trial (⭐3) - Runs FFmpeg transcoding processes simultaneously and measures CPU performance.

• xiph/awcy — Are We Compressed Yet? (⭐80) - Distributed encode/decode + BD-rate + VMAF codec comparison harness used by AOM for AV1 (libaom, SVT-AV1, rav1e), with comparative reports and dataset management.

Real-Time Encoding Solutions / HEVC

• ABR Broadcaster (⭐94) - A real time encoder for Adaptive Bitrate Broadcast.

• go-transcode (⭐292) - On-demand HTTP transcoding origin for live inputs and static files with NVIDIA GPU acceleration via Docker.

• Gstreamill (⭐248) - Encoder with hls output based on gstreamer.

• hls_transcoder (Rust) (⭐4) - Rust library building GStreamer pipelines to transcode to HLS with hardware (NVENC) and software (x264) support.

• LiveForge (⭐16) - Go single-binary multi-protocol live media server supporting RTMP/RTSP/SRT/WHIP/WHEP/HLS/LL-HLS/DASH ingest and delivery.

• open-streamer (⭐1) - Go live streaming server with in-process libavcodec ABR transcoding and full-GPU pipeline (NVDEC→scale_cuda→NVENC), 1×decode + N×encode fan-out to HLS/DASH.

• RTSP Stream (⭐722) - Out of box solution for RTSP - HLS live stream transcoding. Makes RTSP easy to play in browsers.

• StreamPack - Multiprotocol live streaming broadcaster libraries for Android (⭐360) - StreamPack is a lightweight, high-performance toolkit for building streaming video processing pipelines on Android. It provides reusable components for frame sources, transformations, encoding, and output, making it easy to develop efficient real-time video applications with a modular and composable architecture.

Scripting & Automation Tools / HEVC

• Av1an (⭐1.9k) - Cross-platform command-line AV1 encode toolkit. Contribute to master-of-zen/Av1an development by creating an account on GitHub.

• Av1an (GitHub) (⭐1.9k) - Cross-platform CLI chunked-encoding framework enabling parallel per-scene encoding for AV1, VP9, HEVC, and H.264 with per-scene quality targeting.

• Batch Py Remux (⭐1) - Convert mkv video to hevc (h.265).

• Batch Python FFmpeg Tutorial (⭐29) - A Python application that uses Batch to process media files in parallel with the FFmpeg open-source tool.

• Distributed FFmpeg Transcoding Cluster (⭐40) - 分布式FFmpeg转码集群。A FFmpeg transcoding cluster runs in variable CPUs, including ARM, x86, and others which can run linux. You can use it to run a RaspberryPi cluster.

• Other Video Transcoding (⭐587) - Other tools to transcode videos.

• Pyup Transcoder (⭐4) - A Python-based software to transcode videos and upload files to a remote server or S3-bucket.

• Transcode (cwinging) (⭐3) - Python-based transcoding server by cwinging for handling video conversion tasks.

• TranscodeVideo (⭐2) - A Swift wrapper around the transcode-video command.

• Video Utils (⭐20) - Python package containing many tools useful for converting video files to h264/h265 encoded MP4 or MKV files.

Software Codecs / HEVC

• Dav1d (videolan) - Dav1d is the fastest AV1 decoder on all platforms.

• descriptinc/prores-software-decoder — Real-Time Software ProRes Decoder (⭐1) - Real-time software decoder/demo for Apple ProRes, enabling ProRes playback without hardware VideoToolbox support.

• exhale (⭐8) - Open-source USAC / xHE-AAC (Extended HE-AAC) encoder converting WAVE to MPEG-4 ISO/IEC 23003-3, mono/stereo/multichannel at medium-high bitrates.

• libxaac (⭐77) - Ittiam Extended HE-AAC full encoder and decoder supporting AAC-LC, HE-AACv1/v2 object types.

• OpenVVC - Open-source (LGPLv2.1) real-time software VVC/H.266 decoder library with frame and tile parallelism, RPR support.

• uavs3e — AVS3-P2 Video Encoder (⭐160) - Open-source baseline encoder for the Chinese AVS3-P2 video standard; SSE4/AVX2 optimized, 10-bit, competitive with AV1/VVC on fidelity.

• V-Nova LCEVCdec — MPEG-5 LCEVC Decoder SDK (⭐27) - V-Nova's official open-source MPEG-5 LCEVC (Low Complexity Enhancement Video Coding) decoder SDK, with CPU and experimental Vulkan GPU decode pipelines.

• V-Nova LCEVCdecJS — LCEVC Web Decoder (⭐2) - JavaScript/WebGL MPEG-5 LCEVC decoder for browser video playback, enabling LCEVC enhancement layer rendering on the web.

Hardware Codecs & Acceleration / HEVC

• Intel libvpl — oneVPL Dispatcher (⭐363) - OneVPL dispatcher library for Intel Quick Sync Video hardware encode/decode, the successor to Media SDK.

• Intel Vaapi Driver (⭐320) - VA-API user mode driver for Intel GEN Graphics family.

• Intel vpl-gpu-rt — oneVPL GPU Runtime (⭐150) - OneVPL GPU runtime implementing Intel QSV hardware encode/decode on modern Intel GPUs.

• Khronos Vulkan-Video-Samples (⭐39) - Official Khronos sample apps for end-to-end all-Vulkan hardware decode/encode of H.264/H.265/AV1/VP9, vendor-neutral across drivers.

• Libva (⭐768) - An implementation for VA-API (Video Acceleration API).

• NETINT Libxcoder — Quadra VPU driver/API (⭐7) - Driver and API (Libxcoder) for NETINT Quadra VPUs, with encode/decode/transcode demo tools for ASIC-based hardware video processing.

• NVIDIA NvPipe — Low-Latency GPU Video Compression (⭐394) - C++ library for zero-latency hardware video compression, aimed at interactive remoting/streaming using NVENC/NVDEC.

• NVIDIA vk_video_samples (⭐346) - NVIDIA Vulkan Video samples usable as customizable decode/encode libraries for hardware-accelerated video pipelines.

• nvidia-video-codec-rs — Rust NVENC/NVDEC Bindings (⭐34) - Rust bindings for the NVIDIA Video Codec SDK, providing hardware encode and decode from Rust.

• Rockchip MPP — Media Process Platform (⭐1k) - Official hardware encode/decode library for Rockchip SoCs (RK3288/3399/3588), decoding H.265/H.264/VP9/AV1 and encoding H.265/H.264/VP8/MJPEG.

• Xilinx/AMD Video SDK — Alveo U30 / VT1 (⭐34) - AMD/Xilinx Video SDK for Alveo U30 and AWS VT1 FPGA transcoding, exposing FFmpeg, GStreamer and the XMA C API for hardware-accelerated encode/decode.

Containerization & Packaging Tools / HEVC

• Alpine Node Video Multitool (⭐0) - Contribute to realeyes-media/alpine-node-video-multitool development by creating an account on GitHub.

• CDN Transcode Sample (GitHub) (⭐123) - Media transcoding is a key function for live video broadcasting, streaming, and video on demand use cases in a CDN network. The CDN Transcode sample (not a finished product) provides a reference pi..

• Dlb Mp4base (⭐279) - The Dolby MP4 streaming muxer (dlb_mp4base) is a software implementation of a muxer of fragmented or unfragmented ISO base media file format (mp4). It supports muxing of Dolby Digital (AC-3), Dolby..

• Dlb Mp4demux (⭐121) - The Dolby MP4 streaming demuxer (dlb_mp4demux) is a software implementation of a demuxer of fragmented or unfragmented ISO base media file format (mp4). It supports demuxing of Dolby Digital (AC-3)..

• Dlb Mp4demux (ShaoWeiguo) (⭐2) - The Dolby MP4 streaming demuxer (dlb_mp4demux) is a software implementation of a demuxer of fragmented or unfragmented ISO base media file format (mp4). It supports demuxing of Dolby Digital (AC-3)..

• Docker HEVC (⭐1) - Docker container to create HEVC streaming packages.

• Gots (⭐309) - MPEG Transport Stream handling in Go.

• Imf Conversion (⭐63) - NF IMF media conversion utility allows to handle flat file creation from a specified CPL within the IMF package.

• lieff/minimp4 — Single-Header C MP4 Mux/Demux (⭐425) - Minimalistic single-header C library for MP4 mux/demux with fragmented-MP4 mode.

• Mixwave (⭐1.4k) - Self hostable platform that aims to simplify the complexities of video delivery. Transcode and package your media for online streaming with simple API calls and sane defaults, or craft dynamic HLS playlists on the fly with bumpers, ads and filters.

• Mp4parser (⭐2.8k) - A Java API to read, write and create MP4 files. Contribute to sannies/mp4parser development by creating an account on GitHub.

• muxide — Pure-Rust MP4 Muxer (⭐70) - Pure-Rust zero-dependency MP4 muxer (no FFmpeg) supporting H.264/H.265/AV1/AAC/Opus with fragment mode.

• Openfaas Transcode (⭐10) - Serverless video transcoding pipeline built on OpenFaaS for function-as-a-service deployments.

• shiguredo/mp4-rs — Sans-I/O Rust MP4 Mux/Demux (⭐154) - Zero-dependency, sans-I/O Rust MP4 mux/demux with Fmp4SegmentMuxer and Demuxer, no_std capable; actively maintained.

• Transcoder (GitHub) (⭐15) - Docker container to transcode videos in mounted volume to H265 using FFmpeg.

• Ts2mpa (⭐5) - A simple tool to extract MPEG Audio from a MPEG-2 Transport Stream.

• tsMuxer (⭐1.1k) - A transport stream muxer for remuxing/muxing elementary streams, EVO/VOB/MPG, MKV/MKA, MP4/MOV, TS, M2TS to TS to M2TS. Supported video codecs H.264/AVC, H.265/HEVC, VC-1, MPEG2. Support..

Containerization & Packaging Tools / Origin Servers

• Docker Jit Capture (⭐2) - A Docker container for an open source Just-In-Time Capture Origin.

Software Transcoding Tools / Origin Servers

• Av1transcoder (⭐6) - Transcode video files to the AV1 format using FFmpeg and libaom-av1.

• Codem Transcode (⭐153) - Offline video transcoder written in Node.js.

• Django Video Transcoding (⭐23) - Simple video transcoding application for Django Framework.

• Fantastic Transcoder (⭐45) - A video transcoder which utilizes massively parallel compute to achieve ludicrous conversion speeds.

• MediaMolder - FFmpeg for the AI era (⭐103) - A rewrite of the interface and orchestration layers of FFmpeg. Includes...

• Graphical user interface that makes it easy to visualize, edit, validate and run your graph

• Jobs defined in JSON files

• Import any FFmpeg command-line

• Real-time encoding control system - dynamically optimizes encoder settings to maintain real-time frame rates

• Open Telemetry / Prometheus metrics

• Add custom Go processing nodes

• Integrations with AI engines, including...
  • Whisper speech to text
  • Vidi 2.5 multimodal scene understanding
  • TwelveLabs multimodal video understanding and embedding
  • YOLOv8 object detection and classification
  • YOLOv8 face detection and alignment with SFace Embedding

• Custom motion-compensated scene detector

• Go port of PySceneDetect (5 scene detection algorithms)

• Integrated support of LibRAW (decoding, processing of camera RAW formats)

• Simple video sequence editor

• Support for remote or distributed execution.

• Node Transcoding (⭐48) - Node.js video transcoding library.

• NotEnoughAV1Encodes (⭐565) - GUI Handler for AV1 Encoders (aomenc, rav1e & svt-av1).

• Rate Control Tests (⭐54) - Tests for different rate control modes in x264. Contribute to slhck/rate-control-tests development by creating an account on GitHub.

• React Native Transcode (⭐13) - Video Transcoder for React Native.

• Transcode (kees) (⭐2) - Collection of command-line tools for video format conversion and transcoding operations.

• transcode2H265 (⭐13) - Unattended video transcoder to H265 and ACC codecs, in MKV containers.

• Video Transcoding (⭐2.5k) - Tools to transcode, inspect and convert videos.

• Vireo (⭐957) - A lightweight and versatile video processing library written in C++11.

Open Source Encoder Projects / Origin Servers

• Rav1e (⭐4.1k) - The fastest and safest AV1 encoder.

• Video Compression Motion Estimation Block Video Encoder (⭐13) - This repository is about video compression, and more specifically about the motion estimation block (ME block) of a video encoder. It is a research project for developing an efficient motion estima..

Cloud-Based Encoding Solutions / Origin Servers

• Cloud Transcoder (⭐12) - Transcoding long (>1 hour) videos quickly and cost-effectively on GCP to adaptive HLS and MP4 mezzanine files. Up to 40x $ savings.

• Gcloud Node Video Transcoding (⭐119) - Transcode Google Cloud Storage video files with Node.js and FFmpeg.

• Hybrik Samples (⭐18) - Sample job JSON files and API integration scripts for Dolby Hybrik, a cloud-based media transcoding and QC platform. The repo demonstrates transcode presets, analysis/QC jobs, and workflow automation against the Hybrik API.

• Snickers (⭐536) - An open source alternative to the video cloud encoding services.

• Video Transcoder (⭐2) - Serverless transcoding solution using AWS S3 for storage, Lambda for compute, and MediaConvert or Elastic Transcoder.

• Video Transcoding API (⭐648) - Agnostic API to transcode media assets across different cloud services.

FFmpeg-Based Tools / Origin Servers

• Audio Video Tools (⭐1) - Python based batch tools to transcode audio and video conveniently (leverages FFmpeg).

• Demo Encoder (⭐58) - A Node.js encoding system based on FFmpeg and configured to write HLS streaming files to S3.

• Express FFmpeg (⭐94) - Node.js FFmpeg video transcode webui，基于Node.js的云转码系统 HTTPS://www.efvcms.com.

• Media Works (⭐5) - Transcode video by FFmpeg with nvenc; normalize the volume; force dynamic range compression to the volume.

• MediaArchiver (⭐1) - Transcode video files using FFmpeg and python3.

• Mmf (⭐3) - Video transcoding FFmpeg frontend in Python.

• Mobile FFmpeg (⭐4.1k) - FFmpeg for Android, iOS and tvOS.

• Mugi FFmpeg (⭐8) - Gui for FFmpeg to simplify transcoding and embeding audio / subtitles in mkv videos.

• Video Transcode (⭐20) - FFmpeg H264 H265 HEVC MPEG Video Trans-code Image-Matrix Collage.

• Video Transcoder (Mozilla-Open-Lab-Etwas) (⭐511) - FFmpeg WebAssembly Video Transcoder.

• Videomorph (⭐97) - A user-friendly Video Converter based on FFmpeg and writen in Python/PyQt5.

Media Tools / FFmpeg

• Brave (⭐692) - Basic Real-time AV Editor - allowing you to preview, mix, and route live audio and video streams on the cloud.

• Docker Serve (⭐3) - A simple Python based HTTP server that sets CORS allow headers. Useful for streaming from files on local computer.

• Google IMA SDK - The Interactive Media Ads (IMA) SDK by Google enables developers to integrate video ads into their applications seamlessly. It supports various ad formats, including linear, non-linear, and companion ads, and is compatible with multiple platforms such as HTML5, Android, and iOS. This SDK is valuable for developers looking to monetize their video content effectively.

• Jubler - A cross-platform open source subtitle editor written in Java. It supports multiple subtitle formats, style editing, timing synchronization, and real-time preview of subtitles on video.

• LiVES Video Editing System - LiVES is an open-source video editing system designed for both professional and amateur video editors. It supports real-time and non-linear editing, a wide range of video formats, and includes features like frame accurate cutting, real-time effects, and support for various audio and video codecs.

• Minyami (⭐650) - A lovely video downloader for HLS videos.

• Seafile (⭐15k) - High performance file syncing and sharing, with also Markdown WYSIWYG editing, Wiki, file label and other knowledge management features.

• Subsync (⭐7.8k) - Automagically synchronize subtitles with video.

• Unison (⭐5.4k) - File synchronization tool useful for keeping video assets and media files in sync across multiple servers or locations.

Ads & QoE / FFmpeg

• etf1/IAB VAST/VMAP Parser (⭐2) - TypeScript Node.js library with separate VAST3Parser and VMAPParser classes exposing a promise-based API.

• Eyevinn SGAI Ad Proxy (⭐5) - Experimental HTTP proxy implementing Server Guided Ad Insertion (SGAI), compatible with AVPlayer and HLS.js 1.6+.

• Eyevinn test-adserver (⭐22) - Test ad-server generating predictable VAST responses/mock creatives for validating SSAI stitching and CSAI impression tracking.

• HLS-SCTE35-monitoring (⭐10) - Script that polls HLS renditions and parses SCTE-35 ad markers across manifest variants for consistency checking.

• OpenQoE (GitHub) - Self-hosted, Apache 2.0 QoE monitoring stack with JS SDKs for major players, tracking startup time, rebuffering, and errors with Grafana dashboards.

• VideoPerformanceAnalysis (⭐0) - Python/Selenium scripts extracting QoE metrics (time-to-start-playing, rebuffer count, buffering time fraction) from YouTube playback.

• vmap-js (⭐28) - Pure JavaScript VMAP 1.0.1 parser with Node and browser builds, from Dailymotion.

Ads & QoE / Advertising

• cuei — Go SCTE-35 encoder/decoder (⭐24) - Go SCTE-35 encoder/decoder supporting multicast, MPEG-TS, base64 and hex.

• Eyevinn hls-splice — HLS ad/VOD splicing library (⭐19) - Library to insert an HLS VOD (ad/jingle) into another HLS VOD via manifest manipulation.

• haxqer/vast — Go VAST 4.2 parser/generator (⭐55) - Go library to generate and parse IAB VAST 4.2 ad documents.

• IAB Open Measurement JS Clients (OMID) (⭐73) - IAB Open Measurement (OMID) JavaScript verification clients for ad viewability/measurement; Apache 2.0.

• IAB SIMID (Secure Interactive Media Interface Definition) - Official IAB Tech Lab spec replacing VPAID for interactive video ads, designed to work cleanly with server-side ad insertion (SSAI).

• rafaelcaricio/scte35 — Rust SCTE-35 parse/encode (⭐8) - Rust library to parse and encode SCTE-35 splice information with a type-safe builder API.

• SimpleSSAI — server-side ad insertion server (⭐9) - API-driven server-side ad insertion stitching VMAP/VAST ads into HLS at segment boundaries.

• VASTlint — open-source VAST validator/inspector - Open-source VAST ad-tag validator and inspector implementing IAB spec/XSD rules, shipped as Rust core with Go/Python/npm/VS Code extension bindings.

Ads & QoE / Quality & Testing

• Artillery Plugin HLS (⭐28) - Load test HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) servers with Artillery 🎥.

• Automated Channel Testing (⭐83) - Roku Automated Channel Testing: Selenium-based WebDriver + Robot Framework + Samples.

• AVRate (⭐8) - An open source modular Audio/Visual subjective evaluation test interface.

• bdr-ssimu2 (⭐9) - Python/matplotlib tool computing SSIMULACRA2 BD-rate curves with average and harmonic-mean plots and temporal subsampling.

• butteraugli (Rust port) (⭐4) - Pure Rust port of Butteraugli from libjxl with XYB color, visual masking, and multi-scale bands, validated to within 0.001% of the reference.

• CMCD Spec, Validator & Analyzer (CTA-WAVE) (⭐35) - Official CTA-5004 Common Media Client Data spec repo including a CMCDv1 validator library and analyzer tool underlying QoE synthetic-test tooling.

• CMCD-DASH — CMCD-aware dash.js PoC (⭐16) - Proof-of-concept CMCD-aware dash.js player + HTTP server performing bandwidth allocation via CMCD data (NUS).

• cmcd-toolkit — CMCD v2 collector & analysis (⭐7) - CMCD v2 collector for ingesting/analyzing Common Media Client Data beacons locally or on cloud, with a dash.js beacon module.

• Eyevinn hls-monitor (⭐47) - Service monitoring one or more HLS streams for errors and inconsistencies (media-sequence issues, discontinuities, stale manifests) with a Prometheus /metrics endpoint and Grafana dashboards.

• fast-ssim2 — SIMD Rust SSIMULACRA2 (⭐3) - Fast SIMD Rust implementation of the SSIMULACRA2 perceptual image/video quality metric.

• Fluster (⭐77) - Testing framework for decoders conformance.

• HLS Stream Health Monitoring Tool (⭐12) - HLS stream health monitoring utility tool provides an report of live HLS stream. This utility tool checks the all available bitrate streams and generates the report in HTML file format. HTML file i..

• ITU-T P.1203 reference implementation (⭐117) - Official Python reference implementation of the ITU-T P.1203 HTTP adaptive streaming QoE model (modes 0-3), outputting per-second and integrated MOS scores.

• montevideo-tech/cmcd-validator (⭐10) - Node library validating player CMCD (CTA-5004) in real time across queries/headers/JSON, tested against Video.js/Dash.js/Hls.js/Shaka.

• psy-ex/metrics (⭐51) - Perceptual video metrics toolkit computing SSIMULACRA2, Butteraugli, CVVDP, weighted XPSNR, VMAF NEG, SSIM, and PSNR via helper scripts.

• Qctools (GitHub) (⭐383)

• R4WG20 QoE Metrics (⭐28) - Issue tracking repository for the R4-Wg20 QoE Initiative.

• ssimu2xpsnr_plotter (⭐4) - Bash tool that encodes x264/x265/SVT-AV1/VVenC across CRF values, measures XPSNR and SSIMULACRA2, and plots rate-distortion curves.

• Test Engine Live Tools (⭐18) - Small tools and scripts for the EBU test engine platform.

• Test Engine Ondemand (⭐3) - EBU's on-demand test engine for validating broadcast and streaming workflows against technical specifications.

• Videobench (⭐258) - Command-line tool for analyzing video quality using VMAF, PSNR, and bitrate measurements.

• VMAF (⭐5.4k) - Perceptual video quality assessment based on multi-method fusion.

• VQEG P.1203 Software Tools Page - Video Quality Experts Group's index of ITU-T P.1203/.1/.2 QoE model implementations (video and audio quality modules).

• VQMT (⭐386) - Video Quality Measurement Tool. Fast implementations of the following objective image quality metrics: PSNR, SSIM, MS-SSIM, VIFp, PSNR-HVS and PSNR-HVS-M.

• Wisual (⭐24) - Web for Visual Quality Assessment.

Audio & Subtitles / Subtitles & Captions

• Aegisub - A free, cross-platform open source tool for creating and modifying subtitles (advanced subtitle editor supporting ASS/SSA formats).

• AutoSubtitle — Whisper subtitle GUI with burn-in (⭐2) - PyQt5 GUI that generates bilingual subtitles using faster-whisper and Silero VAD with LLM translation and FFmpeg burn-in/hardcode.

• Caption Inspector (⭐97) - A reference decoder for Closed Captions (CEA-608 and CEA-708).

• CCExtractor - De-facto standard open-source tool for extracting CEA-608/708 closed captions and subtitles from media files and streams.

• Ccextractor (GitHub) (⭐890) - CCExtractor - Official version maintained by the core team.

• Cea608 JS (⭐8) - A JavaScript project designed to extract CEA-608 captions.

• EBU-TT Live Interoperability Toolkit

• Extract Subtitle (⭐3) - Tool to extract embedded subtitle tracks from video files for separate processing or storage.

• imscED — IMSC subtitle/caption editor (⭐11) - IMSC (TTML) subtitle/caption editor built on imscJS, with a Video Image Burner REST service for IMSC burn-in.

• Libcaption (⭐181) - Free open-source CEA608 / CEA708 closed-caption encoder/decoder.

• Libgosubs (⭐27)

• Live Streaming with Automated Multi-Language Subtitling (AWS Labs) (⭐171) - Reference architecture chaining MediaLive → Lambda@Edge (WebVTT injection) → MediaPackage with Transcribe Streaming + Translate for live multi-language captions.

• Node Webvtt (⭐104) - Parse WebVTT files, segments and generates HLS playlists for them.

• Pycaption (⭐272) - Python module to read/write popular video caption formats.

• Pycaption CLI (⭐19) - A command line interface for the pycaption module.

• Pysub Parser (⭐53) - Utility to extract the text and timestamps of a subtitle file (.srt, .ssa, .sub, .txt).

• pyvideotrans — video translation/dubbing pipeline (⭐18k) - End-to-end pipeline: ASR → subtitle translation → multi-role dubbing → audio-video re-sync, offline or via API models.

• SCF — Subtitling Conversion Framework (EBU) (⭐58) - IRT's Subtitling Conversion Framework converting between EBU STL, EBU-TT Part 1 (Tech 3350/3360) and EBU-TT-D (Tech 3380) with strict conformance via XSLT and Python.

• stable-ts (⭐2.3k) - Whisper-based transcription with forced alignment and audio indexing, including a mode that loads audio in 30s chunks for near-streaming subtitle generation.

• STL2TTML — EBU STL to TTML/WebVTT converter (⭐3) - Java tool converting EBU STL (Tech 3264) binary subtitle files to TTML and WebVTT for streaming delivery.

• STRCleaner (⭐1) - Script that extracts all the text from a subtitles file ignoring time indications, HTML tags and other alien info.

• subconv — SCC (CEA-608) to WebVTT converter (⭐3) - Ruby library converting SCC (EIA-608/CEA-608) caption files to WebVTT; niche 608 conversion path.

• Subtitles (⭐1) - AV Platform MPEG DASH subtitles.

• Vtt JS (⭐13) - A JavaScript implementation of the WebVTT specification.

• Web Video Text Tracks Format (WebVTT) (W3C) - The W3C recommendation for WebVTT, a text format for captioning and subtitling web video. It defines the syntax for caption files used in HTML5 video.

• Webvtt Py (⭐232) - Read, write and segment WebVTT caption files in Python.

• Webvtt Ruby (⭐73) - Parser and segmenter.

• whisper-vtt2srt — AI transcript WebVTT→SRT cleaner (⭐2) - Zero-dependency CLI/Python tool converting Whisper WebVTT to clean SRT, fixing karaoke-accumulation and filtering glitches.

• Whisper-WebUI — subtitle generation UI (⭐2.8k) - Gradio UI generating subtitles from files/YouTube/mic using faster-whisper; outputs SRT/WebVTT, translation (NLLB/DeepL), Silero VAD, diarization.

• WhisperX (⭐23k) - ASR pipeline producing word-level timestamps via wav2vec2 forced alignment plus speaker diarization, useful for accurate subtitle cue timing.

Audio & Subtitles / Audio

• aubio (⭐3.7k) - C library with Python bindings for audio/music analysis: onset detection, pitch tracking, tempo/beat detection, and MIDI-from-audio conversion.

• AudioSeal — localized audio watermarking (⭐753) - Meta's localized sample-level audio watermarking with fast detector, robust to compression/re-encoding; MIT with weights.

• audiowmark — robust audio watermarking (⭐569) - Robust blind audio watermarking that survives mp3/ogg re-encoding at ≥128kbit/s, with tunable strength.

• Cavern — object-based audio engine (Atmos render) (⭐540) - Object-based audio engine and codec pack: Dolby Atmos rendering, HRTF, room correction, unlimited objects (C#).

• EBU ADM Renderer (EAR) (⭐102) - EBU's reference implementation of ADM rendering (Tech 3388) in Python, shipping ear-utils CLI tools including dump_axml, dump_chna, ambix_to_bwf, and make_test_bwf.

• Essentia (⭐3.6k) - C++ audio/music analysis library with a large algorithm set for spectral/tonal/rhythm descriptors, Python bindings, and an essentia.js WebAssembly port.

• fdk-aac (⭐1.4k) - Standalone Fraunhofer FDK AAC codec library (from Android AOSP) supporting AAC-LC/HE-AAC/HE-AACv2/LD/ELD encode and decode, commonly paired with FFmpeg's --enable-libfdk-aac.

• iamf-tools (AOM) (⭐122) - Alliance for Open Media's Immersive Audio Model and Formats encoder/tools, CLI-encoding WAV or ADM-BWF into the IAMF container - an open alternative to Atmos/MPEG-H object audio.

• libadm (⭐50) - C++11 library to parse, create, and write ITU-R BS.2076 Audio Definition Model (ADM) XML, pairing with libbw64 for BW64/BWF file I/O - a building block for object-based/Atmos-adjacent audio packaging.

• libspatialaudio — VideoLAN spatial audio renderer (⭐302) - Spatial audio renderer supporting ADM objects, Higher-Order Ambisonics and IAMF; from VideoLAN, actively maintained.

• loudgain (⭐20) - CLI ReplayGain/R128Gain-style loudness tagger built on libebur128.

• loudgain — ReplayGain 2.0 / EBU R128 CLI normalizer (⭐229) - CLI loudness normalizer implementing ReplayGain 2.0 on EBU R128/BS.1770 with non-destructive tagging for FLAC/Opus/AAC and more.

• Low Latency Android iOS Linux Windows tvOS macOS Interactive Audio Platform (⭐1.4k) - Superpowered Audio, Networking and Cryptographics SDKs. High performance and cross platform on Android, iOS, macOS, tvOS, Linux, Windows and modern web browsers.

• opus-tools (⭐280) - Xiph's official CLI tools for encoding, inspecting, and decoding Opus audio (opusenc, opusdec, opusinfo).

• pyAudioAnalysis — Python Audio Analysis Library (⭐6.3k) - Python library for audio segmentation, silence removal via dynamic thresholding, spectral features, and classification.

• pyloudnorm (⭐775) - Pure-Python loudness measurement and normalization library with no FFmpeg dependency.

• RNNoise (⭐5.7k) - Xiph's RNN-based real-time noise suppression library for speech, operating on 16-bit 48kHz PCM with a CLI example included.

• sdroege/ebur128 — Rust EBU R128 Loudness Library (⭐127) - Rust port of libebur128 for loudness measurement, passing EBU-TECH 3341/3342, C-ABI compatible.

Metadata Extraction & Management / Audio

• AM Viewer (⭐12) - Audio Metadata Viewer. Contribute to DolbyLaboratories/AM-Viewer development by creating an account on GitHub.

• amarghosh/mp4viewer — ISOBMFF Atom Analyzer (⭐59) - Python ISOBMFF atom analyser with shell, GTK, and JSON output for inspecting MP4 structure.

• aomanalyzer.io (⭐40) - In-browser AV1 bitstream analyzer for ivf/obu/webm/avif plus mp4/mkv/ts/mov, running locally with no upload.

• chemag/h264nal — C++ H.264/H.265 NAL Parser (⭐62) - Modern C++ NAL-unit parser for H.264 and H.265 (h265nal sister project), with cmake+tests, dumping parsed NALs from Annex B streams.

• codem-isoboxer — Browser ISOBMFF Box Parser (⭐121) - Lightweight browser ISOBMFF (MP4) box parser for inspecting fragmented and progressive MP4 structure.

• epiclabs-io/inspector.js — TS Media Container Demuxers (⭐36) - TypeScript demuxers/inspectors for MPEG-TS, MP4, and WebM containers.

• hls-id3tags (⭐11) - Tool to inject timed metadata into MPEG-TS segments via ID3v2 tags for HLS in-band metadata.

• IMFTool — IMF CPL editor with IMSC subtitles (⭐145) - Open-source editor for IMF (Interoperable Master Format) Composition Playlists with IMSC1 text-profile subtitle decode/render/preview.

• Isoviewer (⭐240) - GUI application to have closer look ISO 14496-12 and other MP4 files.

• MediaInfo (GitHub) (⭐2k) - Convenient unified display of the most relevant technical and tag data for video and audio files.

• mediameta (⭐1) - Rust native-first media metadata extraction library (creation date, resolution) with optional external-tool fallback via feature flag.

• metadata — Rust FFmpeg-backed media metadata parser (⭐62) - Rust CLI (FFmpeg-backed) parsing and formatting media metadata for human consumption; MediaInfo/ffprobe alternative.

• Mp4analyser (⭐99) - Mp4 file analyser written in Python.

• MPEG Ts Inspector (⭐21) - A command-line tool for inspecting MPEG-TS files. Contribute to brendanlong/mpeg-ts-inspector development by creating an account on GitHub.

• Mutagen (⭐1.9k) - Python module for handling audio metadata.

• OpenSceneSense — AI video scene tagging (⭐25) - Python library combining vision models and audio transcription with dynamic frame selection to auto-tag and describe video scenes.

• Pmd Tool (⭐24) - A pmd_tool is a command line utility that converts between different representations of SMPTE RDD49 metadata.

• Pymediainfo (⭐360) - A Python wrapper around the MediaInfo library. Contribute to sbraz/pymediainfo development by creating an account on GitHub.

• PyProbe (⭐7) - Python library that parses video metadata via ffprobe or MediaInfo into structured output.

• scte35-go (Comcast) (⭐47) - Go library for encoding and decoding SCTE-35 ad markers, spec-complete to ANSI/SCTE 35 2022b.

• slhck/h26x-extractor — H.264/H.265 NAL Extractor (⭐77) - Python tool extracting NAL units from H.264/H.265 bitstreams, decoding type and content with JSON output.

• sprite-vtt-generator — seekbar sprite + WebVTT (⭐15) - Node.js tool generating thumbnail sprite sheets and WebVTT files with automatic interval selection for HLS/DASH seekbar previews.

• SRT Metadata Extractor (⭐1) - Contribute to Eyevinn/srt-metadata-extractor development by creating an account on GitHub.

• video_sprites — Ruby sprite + WebVTT generator (⭐4) - Ruby gem generating sprite PNG sheets and WebVTT for HTML5 player seek previews, with optional animated GIF output.

• Voice Data Extract (⭐19) - A command line interface to combine text information from subtitles with voice data in the video. Provides a convenient way to generate training data for speech-recognition purposes. - abinashmeher..

Batch Processing & Automation / Audio

• FFmpeg Batch AV Converter (⭐1.5k) - Drag-and-drop FFmpeg batch converter GUI running parallel processes up to the CPU thread count.

• Transcode (bmhayward) (⭐14) - Tools to batch transcode and process videos.

• Video Thumbnail Generator (⭐326) - Generate thumbnail sprites from videos.

• Videogrep (⭐3.5k) - Automatic video supercuts with Python.

Subtitle & Caption Tools / Audio

• AutoSub (⭐650) - A CLI application to generate subtitle file (.srt) for any video file using Mozilla DeepSpeech.

• Autosub (BingLingGroup) (⭐2k) - Command-line utility to transcribe/translate from video/audio/subtitles to subtitles.

• AutoSubSync (⭐1.1k) - Subtitle auto-sync GUI wrapping ffsubsync/autosubsync/alass; can sync against a reference subtitle instead of the video.

• Cea Extractor (⭐17) - Parsing and display logic for CEA-608 caption data in fragmented MP4 files.

• Extract Subtitles (⭐84) - Utility to extract subtitle streams from video containers into separate text-based subtitle files.

• Node Thumbnails Webvtt (⭐31) - Video thumbnail generator generating WebVTT spec file.

• Serverless Subtitles (⭐131) - Can handle a video input, extract the sound, transcript it and generate different subtitle files for your video.

• subgen — Whisper Auto-Subtitles for Media Servers (⭐1.4k) - Auto-subtitle generator using Whisper (stable-ts + faster-whisper) for Jellyfin/Plex/Emby/Bazarr, CPU or CUDA.

• Subs Extract (⭐12) - Extracts per-sentence subtitles + audio from a subtitle file + video file.

• subsai (⭐1.7k) - Subtitle generation tool with WebUI, CLI, and Python API using faster-whisper; exports srt/ass/ssa/sub/JSON/txt/vtt with translation support.

• subtp (⭐5) - Rust parser for SRT and WebVTT with round-trip parse/render of cues, comments, styles, and regions.

• TV Subtitle Extraction (⭐16) - System for extraction of subtitles from TV broadcasts.

• vidstack/captions — Lightweight JS Caption Parser/Renderer (⭐145) - Modern ~5kB JS library parsing and rendering VTT/SRT/SSA captions, with server-side support, VTT-region rollup captions, and CSS styling.

• whisper-subtitle-generator (⭐3) - Cross-platform GUI for batch subtitle generation with SRT/VTT/JSON export, translation, and GPU acceleration. MIT.

• WhisperTimeSync — Transcript-to-Whisper Subtitle Aligner (⭐165) - Aligns an existing accurate transcript over Whisper timestamps to produce SRT with both good text and good timing.

VMAF PSNR SSIM Tools / Audio

• dynamic-crf (⭐5) - Go CLI performing target-VMAF CRF search via bisection/interpolation for per-scene variable-CRF encoding.

• easyVmaf (⭐197) - Python script to easily compute VMAF using FFmpeg. It allows to deinterlace, scale and sync Ref and Distorted video automatically.

• FFMetrics (⭐1k) - Windows GUI that visualizes PSNR, SSIM, XPSNR, and VMAF computed via FFmpeg with interactive graphs and batch processing.

• FFmpeg Quality Metrics (⭐553) - Calculate quality metrics with FFmpeg (SSIM, PSNR, VMAF).

• ssimulacra2_rs (⭐35) - Rust implementation of the SSIMULACRA2 perceptual quality metric, among the first with video input support.

• sxpsnr (⭐10) - Standalone XPSNR CLI computing the perceptually-weighted PSNR metric between two YUV/Y4M sources.

• turbo-metrics (⭐31) - CUDA GPU-accelerated video quality metrics: XPSNR, Butteraugli, VMAF, and CAMBI banding detection.

• Vship — GPU visual fidelity metrics (⭐100) - GPU-accelerated (HIP/CUDA) implementation of visual quality metrics SSIMULACRA2, Butteraugli and ColorVideoVDP for fast perceptual video comparison.

Color Science & Histogram Analysis / Audio

• dovi_meta (⭐40) - CLI that creates Dolby Vision XML metadata from an encoded deliverable's binary RPU.

• hdr-analyze (⭐7) - Reads raw 10-bit pixels frame-by-frame, computes per-frame luminance, and generates HDR dynamic metadata .bin files with a verifier.

• HDR-Multi-Tool — HDR10+/Dolby Vision Metadata GUI (⭐110) - GUI for parsing HDR10+ and Dolby Vision dynamic metadata from MKV/TS/MP4/HEVC inputs.

• libplacebo (⭐754) - GPU-based video rendering library (from mpv's algorithms) with dynamic HDR tone mapping, scene-change detection, gamut mapping, and native Dolby Vision Profile 5; powers FFmpeg's vf_libplacebo and VLC.

• obs-color-monitor (⭐207) - Vectorscope, waveform, and histogram monitoring plugin for OBS Studio.

• OpenColorIO (GitHub) (⭐2.1k) - Academy Software Foundation's industry-standard color management framework for color space transforms and display transforms, used by Nuke, Blender, Krita, and major VFX pipelines.

• quietvoid/dovi_tool — Dolby Vision RPU Metadata Tool (⭐980) - Rust CLI to extract, edit, and generate Dolby Vision RPU metadata (profiles 4/5/7/8) and plot L1/L2/L8 levels.

• quietvoid/hdr10plus_tool — HDR10+ Metadata Extractor (⭐442) - Rust CLI to extract HDR10+ dynamic metadata from HEVC to JSON, plot brightness graphs, and compute Samsung scene info.

• scopes_plusplus (⭐10) - C++23 realtime video waveform/vectorscope/analyzer using ImGui, OpenGL, and OpenCL.

• YUView (⭐2.3k) - A QT based, cross-platform YUV player with an advanced analytic toolset.

Scene Detection & Segmentation / Audio

• AutoShot (⭐246) - CVPR-NAS 2023 shot boundary detection model with a NAS-optimized architecture and the new SHOT dataset (853 videos, 11,606 annotations).

• Comskip (⭐690) - Tool for automatically detecting and marking commercial breaks in recorded video content.

• Katna (⭐398) - Pip-installable MIT library for automated keyframe extraction (LUV color-diff), video compression, and smart image cropping.

• LMSKE — Keyframe Extraction for Video Summarization (⭐66) - Large-model sequential keyframe extraction pipeline combining TransNetV2 shot segmentation, CLIP features, and adaptive clustering.

• MKV-Chapter-Maker — auto chapters via black/silence/scene (⭐14) - Automatically generates MKV chapters using black-frame, silence or scene detection and writes them via mkvpropedit without re-encoding.

• Scene Detection Policies and Keyframe Extraction Strategies for Large-Scale Video Analysis - 2025 paper comparing scene-detection policies and keyframe extraction strategies at scale.

• Scenecut Extractor (⭐98) - Extract scenecuts from video files using FFmpeg.

• SceneSeg (Local-to-Global Scene Segmentation) (⭐237) - CVPR 2020 multimodal movie scene segmentation using place and audio features on the MovieNet dataset; reference ML baseline with code.

• Shot Detection Benchmarks (⭐126) - A comparison of FFmpeg, Shotdetect and PySceneDetect for shot transition detection.

• TransNetV2 — Deep Shot Boundary Detector (⭐990) - Deep 3D-CNN shot boundary/scene-cut detector, SOTA on ClipShots/BBC/RAI with real-time inference.

• VidChapters-7M (Vid2Seq) (⭐211) - NeurIPS 2023 dataset-and-benchmark project plus Vid2Seq model for automatic video chapter generation at scale.

• video-black-frame-detection — black/scene boundary detector (⭐0) - FFmpeg + OpenCV black-frame detector for scene/ad-break/chapter boundaries, with optional LLM analysis and JSON/SRT output via REST API or CLI.

• video-keyframe-detector (⭐213) - Lightweight Python CLI extracting keyframes via peak estimation on frame-difference signal, no ML dependencies.

AI & Machine Learning Tools / Audio

• Ad Insertion Sample (GitHub) (⭐98) - The ad-insertion reference pipeline shows how to integrate various media building blocks, with analytics powered by the OpenVINO™ Toolkit, for intelligent server-side ad insertion. - OpenVisualClou..

• Audio Transcriber (⭐9) - Transcodes audio & video files to text, supports MP3, M4A, WAV, MP4, MKV, AVI, MPG & MPEG. No Online API's. Python 3.

• FGVC (⭐1.6k) - (ECCV 2020) Flow-edge Guided Video Completion .

• FlashVSR (⭐1.7k) - CVPR 2026 real-time diffusion-based streaming video super-resolution using one-step, locality-constrained sparse attention with a tiny conditional decoder.

• Jukebox (⭐8k) - Code for the paper "Jukebox: A Generative Model for Music".

• SimpleVQA (⭐86) - Deep-learning no-reference video quality assessment for user-generated content, in PyTorch with SlowFast feature extraction.

• Smart City Sample (⭐218) - The smart city reference pipeline shows how to integrate various media building blocks, with analytics powered by the OpenVINO™ Toolkit, for traffic or stadium sensing, analytics and management tas..

• Upscale-A-Video (⭐1.5k) - CVPR 2024 temporal-consistent diffusion model for real-world video super-resolution.

• Videocr (⭐550) - Extract hardcoded subtitles from videos using machine learning.

Color Grading & Correction Tools / Audio

• aras-p/smol-cube — Compact LUT Binary Format (⭐57) - C++17 compact binary format for Adobe/Resolve .cube LUTs using half-precision floats, aimed at game engines.

• DoVi_Scripts (⭐376) - Drag-and-drop scripts wrapping dovi_tool for Dolby Vision: extract/parse/inject/edit RPU, P8 hybrid creation, RPU resync, and profile conversion to Profile 8.

• HDR2SDR LUT Generator (⭐4) - Generates a 3D cube LUT for HDR-to-SDR conversion by comparing paired HDR/SDR video samples.

• hdrfix (⭐172) - CLI tool for tone-mapping HDR screenshots/video to SDR using multiple algorithms (Hable, Uncharted2, ACES filmic, Reinhard) with exposure/levels control.

• Qtff Parameter Editor (⭐150) - QuickTime file parameter editor for modifying transfer function, colour primary and matrix characteristics.

• vapoursynth-tonemap — HDR-to-SDR Tone-Mapping Plugin (⭐32) - C VapourSynth plugin tone-mapping HDR video to SDR with Hable/Reinhard/Mobius operators ported from mpv and FFmpeg.

Effects & Compositing Tools / Audio

• Anime4K (⭐21k) - A High-Quality Real Time Upscaler for Anime Video.

• BasicSR — image/video restoration toolbox (⭐8.3k) - Open-source PyTorch toolbox for image/video super-resolution and restoration implementing EDSR, RCAN, ESRGAN, EDVR, BasicVSR and SwinIR.

• Natron (GitHub) (⭐5.4k) - Open-source node-graph video compositor comparable to After Effects/Nuke, GPLv2, cross-platform, supports the OpenFX plugin standard.

• openfx-misc — OpenFX Plugin Set (⭐326) - Collection of OpenFX (OFX) plugins - Merge, Roto, keyers, generators, retiming - compatible with any OFX host.

• Practical-RIFE — real-time frame interpolation (⭐973) - Actively maintained, deployment-focused fork of RIFE (real-time intermediate flow estimation) for arbitrary-timestep video frame interpolation.

• rife-ncnn-vulkan — RIFE interpolation via Vulkan (⭐1.1k) - PyTorch-free, cross-platform RIFE frame-interpolation CLI using ncnn and Vulkan for concurrent CPU+GPU processing.

• Video2X — ML video super-resolution & interpolation (⭐21k) - Machine-learning video super-resolution and frame-interpolation framework (C/C++ v6) wrapping Real-ESRGAN, Real-CUGAN, RIFE and Anime4K via ncnn/Vulkan, with CLI and Qt6 GUI.

• vkdt — Vulkan node-graph media processing (⭐571) - GLSL/Vulkan node-graph (DAG) processing engine for raw stills and video, running all processing as GPU shaders.

Non-linear Editing Suites / Audio

• FFmpeg-webCLI — In-Browser Video Editor on FFmpeg.WebAssembly (⭐996) - Fully local browser video editor built on FFmpeg.WebAssembly with timeline trim, transcode, and GIF export.

• FreeCut (⭐1.8k) - Professional-grade browser-based video editor with multi-track editing, WebGPU/WebCodecs support, keyframe animations, AI tools, real-time preview, and export capabilities. Runs entirely in the browser with no installation required.

• Motion Canvas — TypeScript Animation Framework - TypeScript generator-function animation framework with Canvas2D renderer and a real-time editor for programmatic video/animation.

• OpenTimelineIO raven — OTIO Timeline Viewer (⭐140) - C++ OTIO timeline viewer for inspecting OpenTimelineIO editorial timelines.

• OpenTimelineIO Swift Bindings (⭐29) - Swift language bindings for OpenTimelineIO, enabling OTIO timeline read/write from Swift apps.

• Revideo — Programmatic Video via Motion Canvas (⭐3.9k) - Open-source fork of Motion Canvas adding server-side rendering API and templates for automated/batch programmatic video pipelines.

• VoidCut (⭐19) - Free, open-source browser-based non-linear video editor with drag-and-drop timeline, local-only processing (privacy-focused), FFmpeg integration, and simple export. All processing happens locally in the browser.

Conversion & Format Tools / Audio

• FF Multi Converter (⭐86) - GUI File Format Converter. Contribute to ilstam/FF-Multi-Converter development by creating an account on GitHub.

• media-converter (M1XZG) (⭐2) - Self-hosted web-UI media converter with GPU acceleration (NVENC/AMF/QSV), Docker-ready, supports batch resolution upscaling and audio extraction.

• unifi-protect-remux (⭐332) - Niche true-remux tool converting proprietary Ubiquiti UniFi Protect .ubv camera format to MP4 without re-encoding.

• wo-video-converter (⭐0) - Offline browser-based video converter powered by FFmpeg-WebAssembly, no server upload required.

Audio Analysis & Processing / Audio

• Audio Offset Finder (⭐227) - Find the offset of an audio file within another audio file.

• FFmpeg Normalize (⭐1.5k) - Audio Normalization for Python/FFmpeg.

Quality Analysis & Metrics / Audio

• QCTools Documentation - QCTools (Quality Control Tools for Video Preservation) is a free and open source software tool that helps users analyze and understand their digitized video files through use of audiovisual analytics and filtering. QCTools is funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Knight Foundation, and is developed by the Bay Area Video Coalition.

• Software Tools (⭐9) - VQEG's Software and Tools Website.

Protocols & Transport / Audio

• Adaptive Streaming (⭐1) - A comprehensive overview and experimental project focusing on adaptive streaming technologies, specifically HLS and DASH. It covers content generation, playback across various browsers, and includes a Node.js module for creating multi-bitrate DASH and HLS content.

• MPEG-DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) - MPEG-DASH is an international standard for streaming multimedia content over the internet. It enables adaptive bitrate streaming, allowing for high-quality streaming experiences across various network conditions and devices. MPEG-DASH is codec-agnostic and supports a wide range of media formats.

• RTMP vs. WebRTC vs. HLS - A Comparison of Streaming Protocols - An in-depth blog post by Dyte that compares RTMP, WebRTC, and HLS streaming protocols. It discusses their concepts, supported browsers and devices, use cases, pros and cons, and provides a comparison chart. This resource is beneficial for developers evaluating which streaming protocol best fits their project requirements.

• Videojs Contrib HLS (⭐2.9k) - An HLS library for video.js that enables HLS playback in environments where it's not natively supported. It integrates seamlessly with video.js, providing features like adaptive bitrate selection, AES-128 segment encryption, and support for multiple audio tracks.

Adaptive Streaming / Audio

• AWS Stale Playlist Detector (⭐42) - The Stale Playlist Detector (SPD) is a tool to monitor live HLS origin endpoints for changing playlists. The Stale Playlist Detector (SPD) will use data in the top-level playlist, the child playlis..

• Dl (⭐8) - Node.js DASH and HLS downloader.

• HTTP Streaming (⭐2.7k) - HLS, DASH, and future HTTP streaming protocols library for video.js.

Adaptive Streaming / HLS

• Eyevinn/hls-m3u8 — Go HLS Manifest Library (⭐67) - Go HLS m3u8 parse+generate library, an actively maintained replacement for the archived grafov/m3u8.

• Go Ts Segmenter (⭐94) - Live TS segmenter and HLS manifest creation in Go.

• gohlslib — Go HLS client & muxer library (⭐186) - Pure-Go HLS library (from MediaMTX project) with client and muxer; outputs MPEG-TS, fMP4, or LL-HLS, supports AV1/VP9/H265/H264/Opus/AAC.

• GoHLStreamer — on-the-fly MP4→HLS from object storage (⭐26) - Go server converting MP4 to HLS on-the-fly, loading source from object storage (Appwrite/DigitalOcean Spaces).

• HLS Analyzer (⭐193) - Analyzer for HTTP Live Streams (HLS) content.

• HLS Cutsegment (⭐3) - A web app that lets you insert a cut into a segment, which is then cut into two new segments.

• HLS Downloader (⭐141) - Download all video files from HLS (HTTP Live Streaming) VoD (Video on Demand) m3u8 playlist for local playback.

• HLS Downloader Chrome Extension (⭐2.6k) - Google Chrome Extension for sniffing and downloading HTTP Live streams (HLS).

• HLS Fetch (⭐193) - Download and decrypt videos served by the HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) protocol.

• HLS Get (⭐47) - An asynchronous terminal-based hls video stream (m3u8) downloader & combiner, with AES-128 decryption support.

• HLS JS (⭐17k) - JavaScript HLS client using Media Source Extension.

• HLS Origin Scripts (⭐18) - Scripts to manipulate HLS manifests at origin or edge server.

• HLS Playlist Parser (⭐6) - A JavaScript library to parse Hls playlists.

• HLS Relay (⭐23) - Script to pull HLS stream from one origin and push to another origin.

• HLS Server (⭐262) - Middleware for serving HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) compatible media streams.

• HLS Streaming (⭐2) - Implementation or example project by tozastation demonstrating HTTP Live Streaming delivery.

• HLS Ts Analyzer (⭐1) - Example implementation of hls-ts.js library.

• HLS Ts JS (⭐37) - HLS MPEG-TS parser library in JavaScript.

• HLS VOD (⭐283) - HTTP Live Streaming with on-the-fly encoding of any video file for Web/Apple TV/iPhone/iPad/iPod.

• hls-vod-too — on-demand HLS with partial transcode (⭐26) - Node on-demand HLS VOD server that transcodes only played segments, with instant seek and a shared transcode cache.

• HLSCachingReverseProxyServer (⭐166) - A simple local reverse proxy server for HLS segment cache.

• Hlsclient (⭐105) - Python-based HLS client library from Globo for downloading and processing adaptive streaming video content.

• HLSCore (⭐14) - A collection of Swift packages for working with HLS.

• Hlsdl (⭐675) - C program to download VoD HLS (.m3u8) files.

• HLSDownloader (⭐32) - Download Crypted HLS with server key and play video as local playing on iOS device.

• Hlsdownloader (nmrony) (⭐120) - Downloads HLS Playlist file and TS chunks.

• Hlsdownloader CLI (⭐18) - Downloads HLS Playlist file and TS chunks using Terminal.

• HLSion (⭐85) - HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) download manager to offline playback.

• Hlsq (⭐67) - A CLI for adding some color to your HLS manifests along with some basic filtering.

• Hlstools (⭐77)

• HTTPLiveStreamingTools (⭐76) - Latest Apple HLS tools copy from Apple Developer Center.

• M3U8 (⭐2.3k) - Python library from Globo for parsing and generating M3U8 playlists used in HLS streaming workflows.

• M3U8 (grafov) (⭐1.3k) - Parser and generator of M3U8-playlists for Apple HLS. Library for Go language. 🎦.

• M3U8 Parser (carlanton) (⭐216) - HLS compliant m3u8 parser for Java.

• m3u8-rs (shiguredo) — Rust M3U8 parser/builder (⭐1) - Zero-dependency Rust M3U8 parser and builder supporting multivariant and media playlists.

• M3U8Parser (⭐266) - A light weight M3U8 parser. Support X-Key & X-Session-Key.

• Mamba (⭐191) - A Swift iOS, tvOS and macOS framework to parse, validate and write HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) data.

• Mediasegmenter (⭐56) - Command-line tool for segmenting media files into HLS-compatible chunks for adaptive streaming delivery.

• Mock HLS Server (⭐71) - Fake a live/event HLS stream from a VOD one. Useful for testing.

• Morsel (⭐31) - Swift library for creating HLS playlists and fragmented mp4 files. Works on Linux and iOS.

• NGINX Audio Track For HLS Module (⭐135) - Nginx module that generates audio track for HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) streams on the fly.

• NGINX HLS (⭐3) - Contribute to zhaiweiwei/nginx-hls development by creating an account on GitHub.

• NGINX HLS Analyzer (⭐11) - Fork of fmsloganalyzer to adapt it for HLS streaming analyzes with nginx.

• NGINX VOD Module Fmp4 HLS (⭐42) - Play fragmented mp4's on HLS using nginx-vod-module.

• rutgersc/m3u8-rs — Rust HLS Manifest Parser (⭐123) - Active nom-based Rust parser for HLS m3u8 playlists (master and media).

• swift-hls-kit — pure Swift HLS library (⭐8) - Pure Swift HLS library to parse/generate/validate M3U8 with LL-HLS, MV-HEVC, SCTE-35 and HLS Interstitials injection.

• Video Downloader (⭐10) - Helper to download HLS videos.

• wasp-hls (⭐183) - HLS media player built in Rust/WebAssembly running inside a Web Worker to reduce main-thread load during playback.

Adaptive Streaming / DASH

• BBC R&D Adaptive Bitrate Test Media - The BBC Research & Development department offers MPEG-DASH test media for developers and researchers.

• Combine Mpd (⭐11) - Combine MPEG DASH MPD manifest files.

• Dash (⭐50) - An MPEG/DASH client-server module for simulating rate adaptation mechanisms over HTTP/TCP.

• Dash DRM (⭐5) - Example implementations demonstrating MPEG-DASH playback with DRM protection schemes.

• DASH IF Conformance (⭐74) - This repository provides the source code for MPEG-DASH/DASH-IF Conformance Software/Validator. It has been extended according to further standards, such as CMAF, DVB-DASH, HbbTV, and CTA WAVE. - Da..

• Dash JavaScript Player - Reference implementation player for MPEG-DASH using dash.js library, useful for testing and compliance verification.

• Dash JS (⭐5.5k) - A reference client implementation for the playback of MPEG DASH via JavaScript and compliant browsers.

• Dash Live Source Simulator (⭐149) - Providing reference live content.

• Dash Proxy (⭐3) - Experimental MPEG-DASH media gateway - proxy on-the-fly modified MP4 segment metadata.

• Dash Proxy (Viblast) (⭐129) - Easy downloading and mirroring of MPEG-DASH streams.

• Dash Server (⭐9) - Small, command-line HTTP/2 file server for serving MPEG-DASH content.

• DASH Timeline Validator (⭐14) - Ruby-based tool to validate MPEG-DASH MPD manifests for presentation timeline errors. Checks segment duration drift, advised timeline accuracy, and optionally verifies actual segment durations match manifest declarations. Helps identify buffering issues before deployment.

• Dash Validator JS (⭐23) - MPEG DASH validator JS library.

• DASH-IF Test Vectors (⭐4) - Official DASH Industry Forum test vectors repository (catalog at testassets.dashif.org) for MPEG-DASH interoperability testing.

• Dashencrypt (⭐129) - DASH fragmenter/segmenter and encrypter. Contribute to castlabs/dashencrypt development by creating an account on GitHub.

• Docker 2dash (⭐6) - A Docker container to pre-package MPEG DASH on demand content.

• Docker Dash Packager (⭐17) - Open source MPEG DASH packager for live and VOD.

• edgeware/mp4ff — Go fMP4 Parser/Writer & Segmenter (⭐32) - Go library to parse and generate MPEG-DASH MPD manifests, actively maintained.

• Go Dash (⭐227) - A Go library for generating MPEG-DASH manifests.

• ISOSegmentValidator (⭐7) - Contribute to Dash-Industry-Forum/ISOSegmentValidator development by creating an account on GitHub.

• Libdash (GitHub) (⭐600) - MPEG-DASH Access Library - Official ISO/IEC MPEG-DASH Reference Implementation.

• Mpd Parser (⭐89) - Contribute to videojs/mpd-parser development by creating an account on GitHub.

• Mpd Tools (⭐31) - Java utilities for parsing and manipulating DASH Media Presentation Description files.

• MPEG DASH Downloader (⭐7) - Contribute to mahbubcseju/MPEG-DASH-Downloader development by creating an account on GitHub.

• MPEGDASH iOS Player (⭐69) - The MPEG-DASH Player iOS Application.

• Opus Dash (⭐11) - Specification for Encapsulating Opus Audio in ISO-BMFF Container.

• Python Mpegdash (⭐113) - MPEG-DASH MPD(Media Presentation Description) Parser.

• Python-mpegdash — Python MPD parser (⭐113) - Zero-dependency Python MPEG-DASH MPD parser using stdlib XML.

• Samples players for dash.js - Collection of sample players demonstrating dash.js features and implementation patterns for MPEG-DASH streaming.

• Videojs Contrib Dash (⭐299) - Video.js plugin for supporting the MPEG-DASH playback through a video.js player.

Low-Latency Streaming Tools / DASH

• atm0s-media-server (⭐323) - Rust decentralized, global-scale media server supporting WebRTC, WHIP/WHEP, RTMP, and SIP.

• biim - LL-HLS packager (⭐49) - Python3 asyncio LL-HLS packager with MPEG-TS demux and EXT-X-PRELOAD-HINT support, achieving ~1s latency over HTTP/2.

• broadcast-box — sub-second WHIP/WHEP server (⭐2.3k) - Go WebRTC broadcast server offering sub-second WHIP ingest and WHEP egress with webhook auth and data-channel chat, easily deployed via Docker.

• Cloudflare: MoQ — refactoring real-time media stack - Technical writeup on Media over QUIC and Cloudflare's first production MoQ relay network for real-time media.

• cloudflare/moq-rs — Media over QUIC in Rust (⭐139) - Cloudflare's production-tested Rust implementation of IETF Media over QUIC Transport (draft-14), providing moq-relay, moq-API and moq-pub crates for low-latency live media.

• dash.js Low-Latency Streaming Docs - Reference player documentation for low-latency DASH: HTTP chunked transfer encoding requirements and availabilityTimeOffset configuration.

• Eyevinn SRT-WHIP Gateway (⭐29) - Dockerized gateway converting SRT/MPEG-TS input into WHIP (WebRTC) output for low-latency contribution-to-egress bridging.

• Eyevinn WHIP (⭐148) - Open source client and server modules for WHIP (WebRTC-HTTP Ingestion Protocol), Apache 2.0, WHEP egress tested with Eyevinn player.

• Eyevinn/srt-whep — SRT to WHEP/WebRTC Gateway (⭐138) - Rust gateway ingesting SRT MPEG-TS and outputting WHEP/WebRTC with no transcode, for low-latency preview/monitoring.

• Facebook go-media-webtransport-server — WebTransport/QUIC media server (⭐110) - Experimental WebTransport (QUIC) media server for ultra-low-latency live streaming (<60ms) with VOD/rewind support; Media-over-QUIC style delivery.

• Fastly Compute LL-HLS (⭐8) - Fastly Compute@Edge application for LL-HLS playlist manipulation and request collapsing at the edge for sub-second segment delivery.

• FFmpeg-WHIP-WHEP (⭐26) - Adds WHIP/WHEP protocol support to FFmpeg via libdatachannel, enabling FFmpeg as a WebRTC ingest/egress endpoint.

• free-whip (⭐14) - Python WHIP broadcast CLI built on aiortc for WebRTC ingest, tested against Janus and simple-whip-server.

• live777 (⭐307) - Lightweight Rust WebRTC SFU for mobile/IoT/web providing WHIP/WHEP live streaming with sub-second latency.

• mediamtx-moq — MediaMTX with Media over QUIC (⭐19) - MediaMTX fork adding Media over QUIC (WebTransport + native QUIC) sub-300ms streaming alongside WHIP/WHEP.

• Meetecho: Bridging MoQ and WebRTC - Technical blog detailing a Janus plugin bridging WHIP/WHEP to Media over QUIC, with architecture details.

• moq-dev GStreamer plugin — Media over QUIC (⭐29) - GStreamer plugin to publish and consume media over MoQ (Media over QUIC), integrating QUIC low-latency transport into GStreamer pipelines.

• moq-dev/moq — Media over QUIC Relay & Client (⭐1.4k) - Active Rust pub/sub relay and client stack for Media over QUIC (MoQ), targeting real-time latency at scale; docs at doc.moq.dev.

• moq-rs — Media over QUIC in Rust (⭐10) - Rust relay/client implementation of Media over QUIC tracking the draft-ietf-moq-transport spec.

• moqlivemock (⭐16) - Media over QUIC (MoQ)/WARP live publisher and subscriber test app with wall-clock-synced multi-bitrate output; a testbed for the emerging MoQ protocol.

• moqtransport — MoQ Transport in Go (⭐86) - Go implementation of Media over QUIC Transport built on quic-go and webtransport-go, tracking recent IETF MoQT drafts.

• Shaka Packager: Low Latency Tutorial - Official Shaka Packager docs showing a chunked CMAF low-latency DASH pipeline (FFmpeg → packager → dash.js).

• simple-whip-server (Janus) (⭐123) - Node.js WHIP server implementation built on the Janus WebRTC gateway, reference implementation by Meetecho (Janus maintainers).

• tinywhip (⭐16) - Minimal WHIP-in / WHEP-out server for testing WebRTC ingest-to-egress pipelines.

• whep-to-whip (⭐4) - Proxies WebRTC offer/answer negotiation between a WHEP source and WHIP sink, establishing a direct media path after handshake.

• whip-go — Go WHIP client (⭐67) - Simple, portable Go WHIP client for ingesting any media source into WebRTC-based low-latency streaming servers.

Adaptive Bitrate Algorithms & Tools / DASH

• ABR Video Player (⭐0) - Sophisticated web-based video player implementing advanced ABR algorithms including BOLA (Buffer Occupancy based Lyapunov Algorithm) and bandwidth-based strategies. Features MSE-based streaming, dual EWMA bandwidth estimation, and intelligent quality switching.

• ABR-Arena (⭐1) - ETH NSG global testing infrastructure to evaluate and compare adaptive bitrate algorithms across real-world environments, based on Puffer.

• ABRBench — ABR Benchmark with OOD Trace Sets (⭐4) - Benchmark suite for ABR algorithms with 3G/4G+ network trace sets and out-of-distribution test splits.

• abrcc — Cross-layer ABR/Congestion Control Comparison Harness (⭐30) - Comparison harness for ABR and congestion-control algorithms over QUIC and dash.js, switching between BOLA, RobustMPC, Pensieve, Festive, BB, and Minerva via CLI flag.

• Bitrate-Ladder-Benchmark — learning-based ladder prediction (⭐10) - Companion code benchmarking learning-based bitrate ladder prediction methods for adaptive streaming (Telili et al.).

• BOLA: Buffer Occupancy based Lyapunov Algorithm (paper) - Original academic paper introducing the BOLA Lyapunov-based adaptive bitrate algorithm, theoretical foundation for many ABR implementations.

• Comyco — Imitation Learning ABR (⭐53) - Imitation-learning based ABR algorithm (ACM MM 2019) with quality-aware chunk selection, includes RobustMPC and Pensieve baselines for comparison.

• Dash Adaptation Simulator (⭐1) - Simulate bitrate switching algorithms based on real data traces.

• encodex — AI content-aware convex-hull encoder (⭐5) - AI-agent content-aware encoder generating convex-hull Pareto-frontier bitrate ladders with content-complexity adjustments.

• per-title-analysis — Per-Title Bitrate Ladder Optimizer (⭐61) - Python per-title encoding ladder optimizer using CRF and metric (SSIM/PSNR) analyzers, Netflix-style, on FFmpeg/ffprobe.

• Puffer / Fugu ABR (Stanford) (⭐918) - Stanford's live-streaming research platform with the Fugu ABR scheme and real-world deployment evaluation infrastructure (NSDI'20), a real testbed rather than a simulator.

• SABR — Stable ABR Framework (BC + RL) (⭐5) - Stable adaptive bitrate framework combining behavior-cloning pretraining with RL fine-tuning (arXiv 2509.10486).

• Sabre — BOLA/MPC ABR Reference Simulator (⭐87) - Reference simulator implementing BOLA and MPC adaptive bitrate algorithms, based on dash.js, widely used in ABR research papers.

DASH Manifest Tools / DASH

• dash-mpd (Rust crate for DASH MPD parsing/generation) - Rust crate to parse, serialize, and generate MPEG-DASH MPD manifests (ISO 23009-1:2022, DVB-DASH/HbbTV profiles), with companion dash-mpd-cli downloader.

• dasha — JS DASH+HLS manifest parser (⭐14) - JS/TS library parsing MPEG-DASH and HLS manifests into a simplified unified representation.

• DVB/HbbTV DASH Validator - Standards-body conformance validator for DVB-DASH v1.1.1 and HbbTV 1.5 MPD/segment streams, covering live and VOD.

• manifestor — Go HLS+DASH manifest toolkit (⭐11) - Zero-dependency Go library to parse/filter/build/transform HLS and DASH manifests; ships as library, HTTP proxy and CLI.

• mpegdash (Python MPD parser/generator) - Stdlib-only Python library (minidom-based) to parse and generate MPEG-DASH MPD manifests, maintained by JWPlayer.

CMAF & fMP4 Packaging / DASH

• abema/go-mp4 — low-level MP4 box library (Go) (⭐543) - Go library for low-level reading and writing of ISOBMFF/MP4 boxes via io.ReadSeeker, enabling direct construction of any atom for fMP4/CMAF workflows.

• cmafp — WebAssembly CMAF/fMP4 Parser (⭐1) - Browser-usable WebAssembly parser for CMAF/fMP4 conforming to ISO/IEC 23000-19 and 14496-12, useful for debugging.

• Create DASH HLS (⭐37) - A tutorial to generate fMp4 files compatible with dash and HLS.

• CTA-5005 WAVE Content Specification - Official CTA WAVE Content Specification covering CMAF header/presentation constraints, low-latency SegmentTemplate rules, and emsg box handling.

• DASH-IF CMAF-Conformance Validator (⭐9) - CMAF/CTA-WAVE conformance validation submodule of the DASH-IF conformance tool.

• DASH-IF fmp4-ingest Reference (⭐34) - DASH-IF CMAF ingest spec with a Node.js reference receiver implementation, storing ingested chunks as CMAF track files.

• eaglesong.dev/hls - Go library implementing a live HLS+DASH origin: fMP4 segmenting, in-memory buffer, conditional blocking MPD, and single/separate track modes.

• Fmp4 JS (⭐11) - A JavaScript library to parse ISO Base Media File Format (MPEG-4 Part 12).

• GPAC LL-DASH Wiki - Technical deep-dive on MP4Box CMAF chunk configuration for low-latency DASH, covering byte-range vs file-per-chunk modes with CLI examples.

• mp4-atom (⭐29) - Low-level Rust ISOBMFF (ISO 14496-12) box encoder/decoder from the MoQ ecosystem.

• mp4ff (Eyevinn) (⭐643) - Go library and CLI tools (mp4ff-info, mp4ff-encrypt, mp4ff-decrypt) for fragmented MP4/CMAF inspection and manipulation.

• mp4parse-rust — Firefox ISOBMFF parser (⭐447) - Battle-tested Rust ISOBMFF/MP4 demux parser used in Firefox for safe media container parsing.

HLS Manifest Parsers & Generators / DASH

• hls_m3u8 (⭐65) - Rust RFC 8216 m3u8 parser and generator with full HLS v7 support.

• hls-parser (kuu) (⭐147) - JavaScript library to read and write HLS playlists with Low-Latency HLS support.

• M3U8 Parser (⭐524) - M3U8 playlist parser from the Video.js project. Core utility for handling HLS manifests in JavaScript.

• Manifestparser (⭐2) - JavaScript library from Eyevinn for parsing HLS and DASH manifest files in video applications.

• Open M3U8 (⭐247) - Open-source parser for m3u8 playlist files by iHeartRadio. Essential for HLS streaming implementations.

• Scte35 JS (⭐51) - A SCTE 35 Parser for JavaScript.

• Vast Info (⭐5) - Parse a VAST or VMAP to show valuable information in a readable format.

• video-manifest-parser (⭐0) - TypeScript library for manipulating both DASH MPD and HLS M3U8 manifests via a unified editor API (addStream, toString).

Transport Protocols / DASH

• NGINX-RTMP Module (⭐14k) - An Nginx module that adds RTMP streaming server capabilities to Nginx. It supports streaming live content via RTMP and can also be used to create HLS/DASH streams from RTMP input.

Transport Protocols / RIST

• FFmpeg RIST Protocol Documentation - Official FFmpeg docs for the rist:// muxer/demuxer, covering rist_profile, buffer_size, encryption, and secret options.

• GStreamer RIST Plugin Documentation - Official GStreamer plugin reference for ristsink/ristsrc/ristrtxsend/ristrtxreceive elements implementing TR-06-1 Simple Profile and partial TR-06-2 Main Profile (RTP header extensions, null-TS restore).

• RIST Forum: 2025 RIST vs SRT Comparison - RIST Forum's own 2025 technical writeup on protocol divergence points between RIST and SRT 1.5, covering bonding convergence and interoperability/governance tradeoffs.

• RIST Forum: Latest Updates to SRT and RIST - RIST Forum tracking protocol evolution, referencing TR-06-4 Part 3 ancillary features spec.

• RIST Installer for Windows (⭐5) - Scripts to build libRIST (Reliable Internet Stream Transport) installers for Windows. Provides easy installation of the open-source RIST protocol implementation and tools for reliable low-latency video transport over unmanaged networks.

• RIST with GStreamer (RidgeRun Wiki) - Technical walkthrough with working gst-launch pipeline examples for RIST sender/receiver and bonding via multiple bonding-addresses.

• VSF Technical Recommendations Index - Official Video Services Forum index linking all TR-06-x RIST specification PDFs (Simple/Main/Advanced profiles and extensions).

Transport Protocols / SRT

• HydraSRT (⭐133) - Open-source alternative to the Haivision SRT Gateway built on Elixir/OTP + Rust + GStreamer, with failover, supervision, metrics, and a web UI/API.

• HydraSRT — open-source SRT gateway (⭐133) - Open-source SRT gateway positioned as an alternative to Haivision SRT Gateway for reliable contribution-grade transport routing.

• irl-srt-server — SRT Live Server for IRL Streaming (⭐43) - SRT Live Server fork tailored for SRTLA/Belabox IRL mobile streaming setups.

• Loopy SRT Stats Monitor (⭐175) - Monitors OBS SRT/SLS/BELABOX/RESTREAMER/RIST/NGINX connections and auto-switches OBS scene on connection failure; IRL streaming focused.

• opensrthub — SRT hub/gateway with web UI (⭐46) - Linux SRT hub/gateway routing SRT and UDP transport streams with a stats web UI for monitoring.

Transport Protocols / RTMP

• go-rtmp (⭐434) - Go RTMP 1.0 server library with a relay example; a building block for custom RTMP ingest servers.

• rtmp-rs (⭐8) - Modern Rust RTMP server supporting Enhanced RTMP v2 with HEVC/AV1/VP9, keyframe caching for late joiners, and backpressure that drops video while keeping audio.

• rtmp-server-rs (⭐13) - Rust RTMP server with play whitelist, callback-URL publish validation, Redis Pub/Sub control, and RTMPS/TLS support.

• rtmp-srt-server (⭐4) - RTMP/SRT relay with web management, dynamic outputs, and universal MPEG-TS to RTMP repackaging for multi-input/multi-output workflows.

HLS Tools / RTMP

• Auto Dash HLS (⭐11) - Automated toolchain for generating DASH/ HLS compatible files from all videos inside a root folder.

• HLS Download (⭐47) - Download HLS and convert to MP4.

• HLS To MP4 (⭐5) - Download HLS videos as MP4 (WebVTT for caption download optional).

• hlsvalidator (⭐0) - Go application wrapping Apple's mediastreamvalidator for concurrent HLS validation with JSON/HTML reports.

• M3U8 Dl (⭐75) - A CLI m3u8-downloader program to parse .m3u8 playlist file and download mpeg2-ts video files, concat them and convert it to mp4 using FFmpeg.

• M3U8 Downloader (⭐66) - Tool for downloading video streams from m3u8 playlists. Utility for HLS content retrieval and testing.

• M3U8 Downloader (lcy0321) (⭐25) - Download the ts files according to the given m3u8 file.

• NGINX HLS Module (⭐52) - Smooth Streaming Module fork.

• Node Video Lib (⭐371) - Node.js Video Library / MP4 & FLV parser / MP4 builder / HLS muxer.

• Tide (⭐7) - Simple m3u8 and MPEG-DASH MPD video downloader using libcurl.

• VOD To Live (⭐8) - A Python library to generate Live HLS from VOD.

DASH Tools / FFmpeg

• Media Tools (Dash-Industry-Forum) (⭐84) - A collection of tools for analyzing, handling, and creating media and media containers.

• MP4 To Mpegdash Py (⭐21) - Python Script to convert a MP4 file into onDemand MPEG-DASH.

• pydash2hls (⭐43) - Python DASH-to-HLS converter for local or remote manifests, with optional SAMPLE-AES key embedding.

Players & Clients / FFmpeg

• Dolby.io Client SDKs - Dolby.io offers Client SDKs for developers aiming to create applications with streaming capabilities. These SDKs support various platforms, including JavaScript for web applications, React Native, Flutter, and native SDKs for Android, iOS, Mac, Windows, and Linux. They assist in connecting, capturing, publishing, and viewing streams from the Dolby.io Streaming Platform, providing a comprehensive solution for building streaming applications.

• Iina (GitHub) (⭐46k) - The modern video player for macOS.

• JetAudio - An integrated multimedia player for Windows capable of playing video and audio with an array of sound effects and visualization features.

• Lightspark (⭐1.9k) - An open source flash player implementation.

• Mpv (GitHub) (⭐36k) - Lightweight command-line video player supporting wide format compatibility and advanced playback features.

• Popcorn.js - An open-source JavaScript library for HTML5 media developers. It uses native HTMLMediaElement properties, methods, and events, normalizing them into an API and providing a plugin system. Popcorn.js supports playing non-native media through wrappers and is part of a Mozilla program to promote web video creation via open standards.

• Video.js (⭐40k) - A full-featured, open-source HTML5 video player that supports all common media formats, including streaming formats like HLS and DASH. It is compatible across desktops, mobile devices, tablets, and web-based Smart TVs. Video.js offers a robust ecosystem of plugins for analytics, advertising, and more, making it highly extensible and customizable.

• xgplayer (⭐9.3k) - An HTML5 video player with a parser that saves traffic. It is designed to be lightweight and efficient, providing a smooth playback experience with support for various video formats.

• Ziggeo Mobile SDKs - Ziggeo offers cloud-based video technology with mobile SDKs for iOS and Android, providing asynchronous video APIs and tools to deliver enterprise-grade WebRTC capabilities. These SDKs enable developers to integrate video recording and playback functionalities into mobile applications.

Mobile & Web Players / FFmpeg

• Android Oembed Video (⭐40) - An Android library for parsing and playing video links (YouTube, Vimeo, etc.) within a WebView without requiring official APIs, using oEmbed.

• Epic Video Comparator (⭐85) - JavaScript library which implements a video comparator component: two overlaped and synchronized video players each one playing an independent source.

• Google Media Framework iOS (⭐75) - The Google Media Framework (GMF) is a lightweight media player designed to make video playback and integration with the Google IMA SDK on iOS easier.

Mobile & Web Players / Web Players

• ABR Player Chrome (⭐1) - Chrome extension that uses Eyevinn HTML player to be able to play HLS and MPEG-DASH natively.

• Chimee (⭐2.4k) - A video player framework aims to bring wonderful experience on browser.

• Docker Html5player (⭐6) - A Docker containerized HTML5 player based on Shaka Player.

• DPlayer (GitHub) (⭐16k) - Wow, such a lovely HTML5 danmaku video player.

• HJPlayer (⭐170) - TypeScript HTML5 video player supporting FLV and HLS playback via Media Source Extensions.

• Indigo Player (⭐1.2k) - Highly extensible, modern, JavaScript video player. Handles MPEG-Dash / HLS / MPEG-4 and is built on top of the HTML5 video element.

• JSMpeg (⭐6.5k) - Pure-JavaScript MPEG-TS demuxer and MPEG1/MP2 decoder with WebGL rendering, ~50ms low-latency WebSocket streaming in ~20kb.

• Media Element Syncer (⭐22) - Synchronise two or more HTML5 media elements.

• media-chrome — web components for player UI (⭐2.7k) - Framework-agnostic custom elements for building audio/video player controls; works with any playback engine (hls.js, dash.js, native video, YouTube).

• Mediaelement (⭐8.3k) - HTML5 or

• Plyr (GitHub) (⭐30k) - A simple HTML5, YouTube and Vimeo player.

• Replay (⭐225) - A React video player facilitating adaptive stream playback with custom UI and a React-friendly API.

• svelte-video-player — Svelte 5 streaming player component (⭐142) - Svelte 5 video player component with HLS/DASH streaming, subtitles, PiP, quality selection and Media Session API; hls.js lazy-loaded on m3u8 detection.

• Videogular (⭐1.5k) - The HTML5 video player for AngularJS.

Mobile & Web Players / Android

• awesome_video_player — Flutter HLS/DASH/DRM player (⭐53) - Maintained Flutter video player (better_player fork) with HLS/DASH, DRM (Widevine/FairPlay/EZDRM), subtitles and multi-audio.

• DKVideoPlayer (⭐5.3k) - An Android video player library wrapping MediaPlayer, ExoPlayer, and IJKPlayer with features like preload, list playback, floating window, and more.

• ExoMedia (⭐2.2k) - Android media playback library wrapping ExoPlayer/Media3 to simplify audio/video setup, with HLS support; available on Maven Central.

• ExoPlayer (GitHub) (⭐22k) - ExoPlayer is an application level media player for Android.

• HybridMediaPlayer (⭐75) - Android music and video player. Uses ExoPlayer 2 and MediaPlayer for lower APIs and makes using ExoMediaPlayer easier. If you need advanced options such as handling Chromecast it is delivered by Ex..

• lcevc-androidx-media — LCEVC Playback for AndroidX Media3 (⭐1) - Fork of AndroidX Media3 (ExoPlayer) adding MPEG-5 LCEVC playback support via a decoder_lcevc module.

• VideoPlayView (⭐94) - A custom Android view that integrates a video player with a loader and placeholder image, enabling quick embedding of video playback in Android apps.

• VLC Android - VLC for Android, Android TV and ChromeOS.

Mobile & Web Players / iOS/tvOS

• Adaptive Video Player (⭐25) - HLS player for iOS that supports manual selection for the quality of adaptive streams.

• BMPlayer (⭐2k) - A video player for iOS, based on AVPlayer, support the horizontal, vertical screen. support adjust volume, brightness and seek by slide, support subtitles.

• DLGPlayer (⭐168) - A media player for iOS based on FFmpeg 4.0.

• FFEngine Framework (⭐51) - A high performance player sdk for iOS based on FFmpeg.

• FFmpeg Avplayer For iOS tvOS (⭐1k) - A tiny but powerful iOS and Apple TV OS av player framework that's based on the FFmpeg library.

• HTY360Player (⭐2.1k) - Open Source iOS 360 Degree Panorama Video Player.

• iOS 360 Videos (⭐277) - NYT360Video plays 360-degree video streamed from an AVPlayer on iOS.

• ModernAVPlayer (⭐294) - A persistence AVPlayer wrapper.

• Player (⭐2.2k) - ▶️ video player in Swift, simple way to play and stream media on iOS/tvOS.

• RTMP Video Player For iOS (⭐133) - Based on FFEngine framework, a rtmp video player for apple iOS devices.

• SGPlayer (⭐2.2k) - A powerful media play framework for iOS, macOS, and tvOS.

• Srgmediaplayer Apple (⭐162) - An advanced media player library, simple and reliable.

• SUCacheLoader (⭐171) - iOS library for caching video content during streaming to reduce bandwidth and improve playback performance.

• TVVLCPlayer (⭐71) - Lets you integrate easily a powerfull video player with playback control views to your tvOS apps.

• URLSessionHLSDownload (⭐5) - A swift 3 implementation for downloading HLS content and play it back using native AVPlayer.

• VGPlayer (⭐395) - A simple iOS video player by Vein.

• Videoplayback iOS (⭐213) - Swift AVPlayer wrapper using the VIPER architecture. Currently a work in progress.

• VIMediaCache (⭐991) - Cache media file while play media using AVPlayer.

• VLC iOS - VLC for iOS is the official port of VLC on the iOS/tvOS platforms.

Hardware Players / iOS/tvOS

• Bifserver (⭐19) - Server which creates and serves up BIF files for Roku players.

• Bigscreen Player (⭐109) - Simplified media playback for bigscreen devices.

• SegmentIO Brightscript (⭐6) - A BrightScript interface to SegmentIO event tracking.

Hardware Players / Roku

• Amplitude Brightscript (⭐2) - A Brightscript (Roku) library for submitting analytics to Amplitude.

• BrighterScript (⭐205) - Superset language of BrightScript adding types, classes, and modern features, compiles to standard BrightScript; also serves as LSP backend for editor tooling.

• Brighterscript Formatter (⭐17) - A code formatter for BrighterScript (and BrightScript).

• Brightscript JSON (⭐13) - JSON parser for Roku's proprietary Brightscript language.

• Brightscript State Machine (⭐3) - State management for Roku channel.

• BrightWebSocket — WebSocket client for Roku SceneGraph (⭐30) - RFC 6455 WebSocket client library for Roku SceneGraph, running in a separate task.

• Brs Testbed (⭐5) - A simple, buildable Roku channel that executes arbitrary BrightScript files.

• brs-engine — BrightScript Simulation Engine (⭐128) - Run Roku BrightScript/SceneGraph apps in the browser and Node.js, with filesystem/registry/remote simulation and a Micro Debugger.

• bslint (⭐33) - Static-analysis linter for BrightScript/BrighterScript with CLI usage (npx bslint), supports --fix and --checkUsage flags.

• dd-sdk-roku — Datadog SDK for Roku (⭐7) - Datadog client-side telemetry SDK for Roku apps (BrightScript + SceneGraph).

• Emby Roku (⭐82) - Official Roku client application for the Emby media server platform for streaming personal video libraries.

• eslint-plugin-roku (⭐49) - ESLint parser and plugin for linting Roku BrightScript source files.

• Jasmine Roku (⭐5) - Example Jasmine tests using node-roku-test for verifying Roku channel behavior.

• Network Benchmark (⭐2) - Proof of concept. Roku app implementing network layer using scene graph nodes.

• RAF4RSG Sample (⭐9) - Sample demonstrating the Roku Advertising Framework in SceneGraph.

• Redoku (⭐23) - Roku application or development tool by Brian Dunnington for video streaming on Roku devices.

• Roact (⭐50) - Roku development library by Brian Dunnington for building video streaming channels and applications.

• Roku Framework (⭐9) - Roku app framework to make app creation easier and structured. Under construction.

• Roku Framework Example (⭐3) - This is a project to show how the boku-framework by Karim Kawambwa is used.

• Roku Lib (⭐56) - Collection of utility functions and helpers for Roku channel development and video streaming apps.

• Roku Libs (⭐66) - BrightScript Utility Libraries.

• Roku Suite Desktop (⭐7) - Tool suite for Roku channel development.

• roku-debug (⭐18) - Debug Adapter Protocol server and socket wrapper around Roku's BrightScript debug protocol, for editor integration.

• roku-deploy (⭐57) - Node.js npm module for zipping, signing, and deploying Roku channel packages to devices.

• RokuFramework (⭐51) - Open source framework for developing Roku channels with reusable components for video streaming applications.

• RokuJSONHelperNode (⭐2) - SceneGraph component library for parsing and handling JSON data in Roku channel development.

• rooibos (⭐79) - Unit test framework for BrightScript/SceneGraph apps, a rewrite of Roku's official framework with code coverage support.

• Rooibos (georgejecook) (⭐79) - Simple, flexible, fun brightscript test framework for roku scenegraph apps.

• Samples (⭐546) - Collection of sample channels for side-loading on your Roku device.

• SceneGraphDeveloperExtensions (⭐126) - Contribute to rokudev/SceneGraphDeveloperExtensions development by creating an account on GitHub.

• TribalScale/rmock — BrightScript Mocking Library (⭐3) - Mock library for BrightScript that works with the official Roku test framework and others for unit testing.

• Ukor (⭐52) - A Roku build tool with support for build flavors.

• Unit Testing Framework (⭐83) - Tool for automating and testing Roku channels.

• Videoplayer Channel (⭐27) - SceneGraph version of the SDK1 VideoPlayer Channel.

• Vscode Brightscript Language (⭐131) - A Visual Studio Code extension for Roku's BrightScript language.

• Zype Roku Scenegraph (⭐9) - Contribute to zype/zype-roku-scenegraph development by creating an account on GitHub.

Frameworks & UI Components / Roku

• Channel Engine Multiview (⭐3) - A multiview frontend for Eyevinn Channel Engine.

• Libvlc Go (⭐509) - Go bindings for libVLC and high-level media player interface.

• Libvlcsharp (⭐1.8k) - Cross-platform .NET/Mono bindings for LibVLC.

• Rocute — Roku UI component library - UI component library for Roku SceneGraph: styled components, animations, screensavers.

• Vapoursynth (GitHub) (⭐2.1k) - A video processing framework with simplicity in mind.

Set-top Box Players / Roku

• exobase — Media3/ExoPlayer base for Android/TV (⭐85) - Media3/ExoPlayer-based video player base compatible with Android TV, bundling FFmpeg extension (AC3/EAC3/DTS/TrueHD) and HDR10+/Dolby Vision support.

• Inputstream Adaptive (⭐529) - Kodi inputstream addon for several manifest types.

• inputstream.ffmpegdirect (⭐101) - Kodi inputstream addon using FFmpeg libavformat/cURL for stream input (TS, HLS, DASH non-DRM), with catchup/timeshift support.

• RDK Services — JSON-RPC services for set-top boxes (⭐41) - RDK Services: JSON-RPC RESTful services for STB components via the Thunder framework.

• rdk-aamp — RDK Advanced Adaptive Media Player (⭐7) - RDK's GStreamer-based Advanced Adaptive Media Player (AAMP) for set-top boxes, playing HLS and MPEG-DASH over IP with hardware video sinks.

• Rialto (RDK/Sky Embedded Media Pipeline) (⭐5) - Sky/RDK Central's embedded media pipeline API for set-top boxes, part of the RDK platform.

• WPE WebKit — WebKit for embedded/STB (⭐242) - Downstream WPE WebKit port for set-top boxes (RDK) with media handled via GStreamer and OpenCDM decryptors, requiring no UI toolkit dependency.

Mobile Players / Roku

• bccm-player — native Flutter HLS/DASH player (⭐19) - Maintained native Flutter player: HLS/DASH/MP4, Chromecast, background playback, PiP and track selection.

• ComposeMultiplatformMediaPlayer — KMP video player (⭐729) - Kotlin/Compose Multiplatform media player supporting video, reels, audio, YouTube, thumbnails and HLS m3u8 across Android/iOS/wasmJs/Desktop.

• GSPlayer (⭐511) - ⏯ Video player, support for caching, preload, fullscreen transition and custom control view. 视频播放器，支持边下边播、预加载、全屏转场和自定义控制层.

• MediaPlayer-KMP — Compose Multiplatform player (⭐305) - Unified video/audio player API for Compose Multiplatform (Android/iOS/Web/Desktop) supporting YouTube and common formats.

• pro_video_player — cross-platform Flutter HLS/DASH player (⭐1) - Native video_player-compatible Flutter plugin with HLS/DASH, playlists, subtitles, PiP and background on iOS/Android/macOS/Web.

• react-native-video — React Native video component (⭐7.7k) - Community-maintained React Native

• ZFPlayer (⭐7.1k) - Support customization of any player SDK and control layer.

Browser Extensions / Roku

• Bitmovin MP4Inspector (⭐78) - Chrome extension that hooks SourceBuffer.appendBuffer to inspect MP4 bytes pushed into MSE SourceBuffers and surface stream irregularities.

• hls-downloader browser extension (⭐2.6k) - Browser extension that sniffs and downloads HLS streams in-browser using FFmpeg.WebAssembly for segment merging, supports MV2/MV3.

• m3u8-video-sniffer (⭐45) - Desktop tool with browser-extension integration to sniff, parse, and download m3u8/mpd/mp4 streams with multi-engine queue management.

• media-bridge (⭐5) - Manifest V3 Chromium extension that detects and downloads HLS/DASH/M3U8 streams, records live streams, muxes with FFmpeg.WebAssembly, and decrypts AES-128, with m3u8/mpd parser modules.

• nas-extension (native adaptive streaming) (⭐32) - Browser extension that forces native HLS/MPEG-DASH playback by injecting hls.js/dash.js into pages lacking adaptive streaming support.

• stream-detector browser extension (⭐722) - Firefox/Chrome extension that tracks HLS/HDS/DASH/Smooth Streaming manifests on a page and emits ready-to-use yt-dlp/FFmpeg/streamlink commands.

Web Players / Roku

• AV1 Player (⭐4) - Video player specifically for AV1 codec playback. Helps developers test and deploy AV1 streaming content.

• Eyevinn Player (⭐5) - Throttled video player to test video streams.

• OTT Multiview (⭐76) - This is a web based multiview screen for HLS and MPEG-DASH streams based on hls.js and Shaka Player.

• Phils Players (⭐32) - A collection of video players with vaguely simple GUIs for video engineers.

• vvdecWebPlayer (⭐44) - Fraunhofer HHI WebAssembly VVC/H.266 web player that decodes and plays raw bitstreams, MP4, and DASH-segmented MP4 in-browser.

Desktop Players / Roku

• HWAcceleratedVP9Player (⭐8) - Hardware Accelerated VP9 Player in macOS 11.0 Big Sur beta 4+.

• KSPlayer (⭐1.6k) - Swift media player framework for iOS/macOS/tvOS/visionOS on AVPlayer+FFmpeg with HLG, HDR10, HDR10+, Dolby Vision, Dolby Atmos, and text/image subtitle support.

• mpv.net (GitHub) (⭐5.2k) - Modern mpv-based Windows media player with a customizable GUI, themes, and extension support built on the mpv engine.

• Ruffle (⭐18k) - A Flash Player emulator written in Rust.

• VLC (⭐19k) - Media player - All pull requests are ignored, please follow HTTPS://wiki.videolan.org/Sending_Patches_VLC/.

Smart TV Players / Roku

• Lightning-TV RN Multi-TV App Sample (⭐0) - React Native TV sample app targeting Android TV, Fire TV, tvOS, and web, with drawer nav, content grid, hero header, and a video player; built with Expo.

• Tal (⭐558) - BBC's TV Application Layer framework for building smart TV apps. Cross-platform TV development toolkit.

Smart TV Players / Smart TVs

• Awesome Smart TV (⭐1.4k) - A curated list of awesome resources for building Smart TV apps.

• HbbPlayer (⭐61) - HbbTV application which can playback media by using url of media as parameter. It conforms to W3C and HbbTV specification.

• Moonfin Smart TV Client (⭐331) - Premium Jellyfin and Emby client for Samsung Tizen and LG webOS Smart TVs. Built with Enact/Sandstone framework, featuring native video pipelines, hardware decoding (H.264, HEVC, HDR10, Dolby Vision), PGS/ASS subtitle rendering with libass, and unified multi-server library mode.

• react-tv (⭐2k) - React renderer and packager for building low-memory TV apps on webOS, Tizen, and Orsay.

• Samsung/TizenTVApps — Tizen TV Sample Apps (⭐291) - Official Samsung tutorial and sample apps for the Tizen TV web platform (HTML5/JS/CSS).

Smart TV Players / Chromecast

• CastReceiver (⭐381) - Reference Receiver: CastReceiver shows how to develop a fully Cast Design Checklist compliant receiver with additional features.

• THEOplayer/samples-google-cast-v3-receiver (⭐10) - Google Cast CAFv3 web receiver sample with an integrated Shaka/MPL player.

Embedded Players / Chromecast

• Gstreamer-on-embedded-devices — RPi/Jetson Examples (⭐41) - GStreamer examples for Raspberry Pi and Jetson Nano: camera capture, RTSP server, shmsink/shmsrc pipelines.

• intel/gstreamer-media-SDK — HW-Accel GStreamer Plugins (⭐91) - Hardware-accelerated GStreamer plugins with zero-copy EGL glimagesink and a Yocto embedded edition for Intel platforms.

• libmpv embedding examples (⭐283) - Official libmpv embedding examples covering Qt widget, QML, render API, and C# integration for building custom embedded video players.

• libmpv2-rs — Rust Bindings for libmpv 2.0 (⭐60) - Active Rust safe-abstraction over libmpv 2.0 (mpv 0.35+) for embedding a full-featured player, including a rendering implementation.

• philn/glide — GStreamer+GTK Media Player in Rust (⭐284) - Minimal cross-platform GStreamer + GTK media player written in Rust, a good base for kiosk/embedded playback of any GStreamer format.

• Python-mpv (⭐628) - Python libmpv wrapper designed for embedding into other applications, disables GUI chrome by default.

• Shaka Player Embedded (google) (⭐239) - Shaka Player in a C++ Framework.

General Tools / Chromecast

• Mp (⭐10)

• QUANTEEC Digital Rights Management - QUANTEEC provides a plugin that enables DRM-protected playback by encrypting video data on the server side and decrypting it on the player side. It is compatible with various players and DRM systems, facilitating secure video streaming.

• VapourSynth - A video processing framework with a scripting interface. It is designed to be a modern replacement for AviSynth, offering support for multithreading and various video formats. VapourSynth allows developers to write scripts for video processing tasks, making it suitable for complex workflows and automation.

Command-line Utilities & Wrappers / Chromecast

• Eel (⭐108) - A simple proxy service to forward JSON events and transform or filter them along the way.

• goffmpeg — Go FFmpeg wrapper (⭐836) - Maintained Go wrapper for FFmpeg: transcode/stream with progress via channel, filters, watermark, concat, subtitles.

• Jaffree (⭐548) - Java FFmpeg and ffprobe command-line wrapper.

• Streamlink (⭐12k) - A CLI utility which pipes video streams from various services into a video player.

DRM Testing & Validation Tools / Chromecast

• clearkey-test-cases — EME ClearKey Test Vectors (⭐0) - Collection of ClearKey EME test cases covering cenc and cbcs schemes for mp4/webm, packaged with shaka-packager.

• Cpix Validator (⭐6) - Web app for validating CPIX documents. Contribute to Axinom/cpix-validator development by creating an account on GitHub.

• DeCENC — CENC Decryption via EME/MSE (⭐157) - Tool to decrypt MPEG Common Encryption (CENC CTR) files via browser EME+MSE, useful for DRM security research and validation.

• DRMSense — browser DRM capability tester (⭐11) - Local browser tool testing DRM capabilities (Widevine/PlayReady/FairPlay), supported codecs and HDR; MIT.

• google/cpix_cc — CPIX 2.2 C++ Implementation (⭐16) - Google C++ implementation of the DASH-IF CPIX 2.2 spec to create, read, and modify CPIX documents for key/DRM exchange.

• openwv (⭐258) - Open reimplementation of the Widevine CDM for browsers, useful for understanding and testing EME content-key handling.

• pssh-box-rs — PSSH box parser/serializer in Rust (⭐16) - Rust library and CLI to parse and serialize DRM PSSH boxes (base64/hex/binary) across Widevine, PlayReady, WisePlay, Irdeto, Marlin, Nagra, Netflix FairPlay and CENC.

• pssh-box-WebAssembly — PSSH Box Parser/Debugger (⭐157) - WebAssembly tool to parse and print PSSH boxes, showing key IDs, encryption scheme (cenc/cbc1/cens/cbcs), and license URLs; can query Widevine license servers.

• pssh-tools — JS PSSH generator for multi-DRM (⭐20) - JavaScript/Node library to generate PSSH data and boxes for multi-DRM CENC (Widevine, PlayReady).

• pyplayready (⭐167) - Python PlayReady CDM with CLI for device creation/export and license handling, useful for DRM testing and validation.

• videojs-contrib-eme — Video.js EME Plugin (⭐230) - Video.js plugin adding Encrypted Media Extensions support to test encrypted playback across Widevine, PlayReady, FairPlay, and ClearKey.

Widevine FairPlay PlayReady Integrations / Chromecast

• alfg/widevine (Go library) (⭐71) - Go library for Widevine license/content key operations (GetLicense, GetContentKey), used as a base for building custom proxy/key servers.

• Axinom DRM Quick Start (⭐265) - Node.js sample wiring Widevine + PlayReady + FairPlay license/key services together, with AWS SPEKE and Widevine CENC API support.

• FairPlay-KSM — .NET Core FairPlay Key Security Module (⭐26) - .NET Core FairPlay Key Security Module (KSM) with license expeditor and SPC/CKC debugger.

• gowidevine (⭐94) - Go implementation of the Widevine CDM with license proxy server/client, aimed at DRM integration and testing.

• ksm — Go FairPlay Key Security Module (⭐107) - Go implementation of an Apple FairPlay Streaming Key Security Module (KSM).

• pywidevine (⭐894) - Python implementation of the Widevine CDM with a built-in test command that validates license acquisition against a sample stream; useful for DRM integration/testing.

• Video Decrypter (⭐337) - Decrypt video from a streaming site with MPEG-DASH Widevine DRM encryption.

• widevine-license-proxy-server-Node.js (⭐46) - Node/Express reverse proxy for Widevine license acquisition, adding rate limiting, auth, and caching layers.

Test Content & Sample Streams / Chromecast

• 240pTestSuite_HCFR — Display Test Patterns (⭐3) - 240p Test Suite HCFR patterns for geometry, luminance, gamma, latency, and display calibration.

• Bitmovin Test Stream - Bitmovin's Test Player allows users to experience their HTML5 video player demo, showcasing adaptive streaming capabilities.

• CTA-WAVE dpctf-deploy — device test suite (⭐6) - CTA-WAVE Streaming Media Test Suite (Devices): MSE/EME/CMAF test content and local content server for device conformance.

• DASH & HLS Sample Streams

• Dolby Audio Sample (⭐8) - A collection of Dolby test content available in different streaming protocols.

• ebu/hbbtv-dvbstream — HbbTV test stream builder (⭐49) - EBU tool building an MPEG-2 TS carrying a test URL to inject HbbTV applications into a device under test.

• Eyevinn Streaming Samples (⭐21) - A collection of HTTP streaming samples curated by Eyevinn, available for testing and development.

• Eyevinn tsgen-svc (⭐11) - Transport Stream Generator: an FFmpeg microservice producing MPEG-TS test streams with burned-in timecode and wall-clock for latency measurement, with a control API and Docker image.

• FFmpeg-dailies (⭐48) - YAML-driven burn-in/slate pipeline using FFmpeg drawtext (timecode, frame number, filename) with OpenColorIO support for generating dailies.

• Kodi Wiki — Sample Media Files (incl. Dolby Vision) - Curated sample media files including Dolby Vision HEVC FEL Profile-7 test clips for player testing.

• List Of Streams (⭐165) - Community list of public test streams for HLS and DASH.

• Streams (⭐11) - A repository of shared streams - no media uploads.

• unifiedstreaming/live-demo-cmaf — DASH/HLS/CMAF Demo Origin (⭐35) - Docker demo serving DASH, HLS-TS, and HLS-CMAF via shaka/hls.js for streaming testing.

• Xiph.org :: Test Media

• Xiph.org derf's Test Media Collection - Xiph's canonical uncompressed Y4M SD/HD test sequences (akiyo, foreman, CrowdRun, ParkJoy) used across compression research.

FFmpeg & Tools / Chromecast

• CodenameGogh (⭐8) - Node-based (nodal) graphical interface to the FFmpeg transcoder for visually building conversion pipelines.

• FFmpeg-gui (Haoming02) (⭐6) - Lightweight Tauri FFmpeg GUI for batch-processing folders with CRF/bitrate control, progress bar, and interrupt support.

• FFmpeg-gui (puzzithinker) (⭐3) - Tauri 2 + Rust + React FFmpeg GUI with visual trim timeline, subtitle burn, and real-time progress; uses the system FFmpeg.

• FFmpeg-web (⭐274) - Web + Electron UI built on FFmpeg.WebAssembly for converting video (H264/H265/VP9/VP8/Theora/WMV), audio, and images, with merging and album-art video generation, all client-side.

• FFmpeg.audio.WebAssembly (⭐55) - Audio-focused FFmpeg WebAssembly build: transcode to wav/mp3/opus, extract audio, pitch-shift and time-stretch via a single-file JS wrapper.

• ffui — FFmpeg desktop GUI (⭐2) - Tauri/Rust + Vue3 desktop FFmpeg GUI with batch video/audio/image queue workflow, preset management, quality comparison, and auto-download of FFmpeg. MIT.

• gui-for-FFmpeg (⭐6) - Go + Fyne cross-platform FFmpeg GUI frontend with multi-language support.

• HBBatchBeast (⭐707) - HandBrake + FFmpeg/FFprobe batch automation GUI with recursive folder scans, folder watching, and multi-instance encoding across Windows/macOS/Linux/Docker.

• video-compress (FFmpeg.WebAssembly) (⭐223) - React + FFmpeg.WebAssembly in-browser video compression with real-time preview and no server uploads.

• Videomass (⭐1.7k) - Cross-platform FFmpeg GUI in Python3/wxPython with multitasking transcoding, running on Linux/macOS/Windows/FreeBSD.

API Libraries & SDKs / Chromecast

• BrightWebSocket (⭐16) - RFC 6455 WebSocket Library for the Roku.

• rust-ac-FFmpeg (⭐213) - Safe minimal Rust bindings to libav with no bindgen dependency, supporting FFmpeg 4-7.

• stainless-FFmpeg (⭐37) - Rust FFmpeg wrapper for building and running media processing graphs efficiently.

DRM Solutions & Implementations / Chromecast

• RivaGAN (⭐319) - Robust video watermarking with non-differentiable adversaries, recovering payload after redistribution (MIT).

• Video Seal (Meta) (⭐701) - Meta's efficient neural video and image forensic watermarking framework with a 256-bit payload model (MIT).

Independent & Hobbyist Projects / Chromecast

• codec-from-scratch (kevmo314) (⭐458) - ~120-line Go weekend project building a simple video encoder from scratch (YUV420P → RLE → DEFLATE).

• Rokumote (⭐33) - macOS app for controlling your roku because sometimes your kids lose the remote.

• sensorReporter (⭐107) - A Python based service that receives sensor inputs and publishes them over REST (should work with any API but mainly tested with openHAB) or MQTT. It can also receive commands and perform an action..

Case Studies & Best Practices in DRM / Chromecast

• Rethinking Key Rotation for Scalable Live Sports Streaming (Irdeto) - Named-vendor case study on license request storms at DRM key-rotation boundaries during live sports streaming, and sharding mitigation approach.

• Using DRM with Key Rotation (Unified Streaming docs) - Official technical reference on CPIX ContentKeyPeriod/ContentKeyPeriodList spec detail and VOD vs live static/dynamic CPIX origin distinctions.

Specialized Utility Scripts / Chromecast

• Content Manager (⭐8) - A visual production tool which is able to generate on the fly visualisation for DAB slideshow and RadioVIS.NET framework based, it is developed in C# and is distributed und..

• FFmpeg Thumbnail Sprite Sheet Generator (gist) - Bash script that loops a video folder, extracts frames via FFmpeg, and builds a vertical thumbnail sprite strip per video.

• jwplayer-thumbnail-preview-generator (⭐56) - Small PHP CLI generating sprite sheets and VTT files for JW Player scrub-bar thumbnail previews.

• Springer Free Books (⭐1.6k) - Python script to download all Springer books released for free during the 2020 COVID-19 quarantine.

• tcCoca — SMPTE/EBU Timecode Calculator (⭐12) - Small C CLI tool converting/calculating SMPTE/EBU timecodes, supporting drop/non-drop frame and 14 framerates.

Community & Collaboration Platforms / Chromecast

• Codec Wiki (x266.mov) - Community-maintained wiki covering AV1/HEVC/VVC codec internals, encoder settings, and tuning guides.

Research Projects & Academic Resources / Chromecast

• ByteDance NEVC — Neural Video Coding (⭐107) - ByteDance's open-source neural video coding implementation (EHVC, ACM MM 2025) with code.

• Convex Hull Prediction Methods: Design, Eval & Comparison - Survey and benchmark of convex-hull bitrate-ladder prediction methods for per-title encoding (ACM TOMM 2025).

• GIViC — Generative Implicit Video Compression (ICCV 2025) - ICCV 2025 paper on Generative Implicit Video Compression, using implicit neural representations with generative priors for video coding.

• Microsoft DCVC — Deep Contextual Video Compression (⭐774) - Neural video codec research line from Microsoft Research (DCVC, DCVC-RT), CVPR 2024/2025 papers with open-source code and pretrained checkpoints.

• NVRC — Neural Video Representation Codec (NeurIPS 2024) (⭐22) - First INR-based neural video codec to beat VTM (random-access) on long sequences; NeurIPS 2024 code release.

• REVISION: Roadmap on Adaptive Video Streaming Optimization - Survey/roadmap of ABR optimization techniques by Tashtarian & Timmerer (Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt, ATHENA group).

• uvg266 VVC Intra Encoder (ACM MM 2024 paper) - ACM Multimedia 2024 paper describing uvg266, an open-source VVC intra encoder design and its rate-distortion/speed benchmarks.

• Video Streaming Over QUIC: A Comprehensive Study - Academic study analyzing QUIC transport protocol for low-latency video streaming performance.

Performance & Monitoring Tools / Chromecast

• ffmpeg_exporter (⭐10) - Prometheus exporter probing stream URLs directly via FFmpeg, exposing bitrate/fps/connection-state as gauges, server-agnostic.

• Improving Video Observability with CMCD and CloudFront - AWS engineering blog on parsing CMCD query-string metrics from CloudFront real-time logs into Timestream with a Grafana dashboard for session-level rebuffering analysis.

• nginx_rtmp_prometheus (⭐29) - Prometheus exporter scraping NGINX-RTMP module's rtmp_stat, exposing stream count, bytes in/out, and bandwidth metrics.

• streamsurfer (⭐84) - Go tool that probes HTTP video streams (HLS) for errors in a health-check style, successor to the Python hlsprobe tool.

• video-quality-tools (LCMApps) (⭐50) - Node.js tools wrapping ffprobe to detect fps/bitrate drops and GOP structure changes in real time on live streams.

Encryption Tools for Streaming / Chromecast

• Aes Decrypter (⭐34) - Contribute to videojs/aes-decrypter development by creating an account on GitHub.

• Axinom CPIX (.NET) (⭐14) - MIT-licensed .NET library implementing CPIX 2.3 for reading/writing Content Protection Information Exchange documents, available via NuGet.

• Bento4 (GitHub) (⭐2.5k) - MP4/DASH/HLS/CMAF SDK with mp4encrypt/mp4decrypt CLI tools supporting CENC, CBC1, CENS, CBCS, PIFF, ISMA, and OMA DRM encryption methods.

• Dash-Industry-Forum CPIX Spec (⭐27) - Official CPIX (Content Protection Information Exchange) specification source and issue tracker from DASH-IF.

DRM / Chromecast

• EZDRM + Bento4 Open Source DRM Guide - Guide for implementing DRM workflows using EZDRM service with Bento4 open-source packaging tools.

Logging & Debugging Tools / Chromecast

• Video Containers Debugging Tools (⭐52) - A set of command lines to debug video streaming files like mp4 (MPEG-4 Part 14), ts (MPEG-2 Part 1), fmp4 in Dash, HLS, or MSS, with or without DRM.

Build Scripts & Automation / Chromecast

• AutoConfigShellScript (⭐3) - Automatically compile and configure FFmpeg, Python 3.7.2(default), PyAV, OpenCV, Keras, TensorFlow(CPU Mode) and other relative environment.

Cross-Platform Media Tools / Chromecast

• Text To Speech Node.js (⭐346) - Sample Node.js Application for the IBM Watson Text to Speech Service.

• Wsgidav (⭐1.2k) - A generic and extendable WebDAV server based on WSGI.

Docker & Containerization Tools / Chromecast

• Docker Bento4 (⭐13) - A dockerized Bento4 from source. Built on Alpine Linux.

• JRE FFmpeg Apline (⭐1) - Dockerfile (jre8)(HTTPS://GitHub.com/fabric8io-images/java) and (FFmpeg)(HTTPS://hub.docker.com/r/jrottenberg/FFmpeg).

• Toolbox (⭐241) - A set of Docker containers with Streaming tools.

Standards & Industry / Chromecast

• Common Media Library (CML) - Developed by the SVTA's Players and Playback Working Group, the CML is an open-source project aimed at building a standard set of player functionalities deployable across different JavaScript players. It helps reduce individual player development efforts and ensures consistent functionality.

• Inkscape - An open-source vector graphics editor available for all major platforms. It provides tools for creating and editing vector graphics, which can be useful for designing graphical elements in video projects.

• ITU-R BT.2100 - Image Parameter Values for High Dynamic Range Television - The International Telecommunication Union's recommendation BT.2100 specifies the image parameter values for High Dynamic Range (HDR) television. It defines aspects such as color space, transfer functions, and reference levels to standardize HDR content production and distribution.

• The GIMP - An open-source image manipulation program available for all major platforms. It offers a wide range of tools for image editing, making it a valuable resource for developers working on video projects that require image processing.

• Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA) - VESA is a technical standards organization for computer display standards. It has issued several widely used standards, including DisplayHDR, DisplayPort, and the Flat Display Mounting Interface. VESA's standards are crucial for ensuring compatibility and performance across various display technologies and devices.

Specs & Standards / Chromecast

• DASH-IF IOP v3.2 Change Summary (vs v3.1) - Document detailing changes between DASH-IF Interoperability Points versions 3.1 and 3.2 for implementers.

Specs & Standards / Official Specs

• CTA-WAVE Common Media Server Data (CMSD) (⭐26) - CTA-WAVE specification repo for Common Media Server Data (CMSD), the server-to-client counterpart of CMCD.

Closed Captioning & Subtitling Standards / MPEG & Forums

• ADM-OSC — ADM object metadata over OSC - Open spec and tools mapping ADM (Audio Definition Model) object metadata onto OSC for live/broadcast immersive audio interop.

• ETSI EN 300 743: DVB Subtitling Systems - Official DVB bitmap subtitling standard covering region/CLUT/object composition for broadcast PES-based subtitle delivery.

• FAB ESUB-XF Specification (EBU-STL Successor) - European Subtitle Exchange Format spec mapping legacy EBU-STL (Tech 3264) into XML.

DRM & Content Protection Standards / MPEG & Forums

• CTA-5001-C: WAVE Content Specification - Official CTA WAVE spec mandating cenc/cbcs CMAF encryption schemes for interoperable streaming devices.

• Encrypted Media (⭐196) - W3C specification for Encrypted Media Extensions (EME) API enabling playback of protected content in web browsers.

• HDCP on HDMI Specification Rev 2.3 - Official Digital Content Protection LLC specification covering HDCP authentication, revocation, and encryption over HDMI.

• HDCP Specifications Index - Official hub for all HDCP specification variants (HDMI, DisplayPort, HDBaseT, WHDI) plus errata, from the licensing authority.

• MPEG-B Part 7: Common Encryption (CENC) overview - MPEG's own free overview page for ISO/IEC 23001-7 Common Encryption, explaining cenc/cbc1/cens/cbcs schemes.

• PlayReady — Content Encryption Modes (official docs) - Official Microsoft doc detailing PlayReady's cenc/cbcs content encryption mode support.

• PlayReady — License and Policies (official docs) - Official Microsoft technical documentation on PlayReady license/challenge flow, Compliance Rules, and XMR rights spec.

Best Practices & Guidelines / MPEG & Forums

• Cable Bible (⭐85) - A guide to cables and connectors used for audiovisual tech.

• Caniuse (⭐5.9k) - Raw browser/feature support data from caniuse.com.

Best Practices & Guidelines / HDR Guidelines

• AV1 HDR10+ Metadata Handling Specification (AOMediaCodec) (⭐26) - Official AOM repo specifying HDR10+ dynamic metadata handling for AV1, with Bikeshed spec source and conformance test suite.

• ITU-R BT.2100-3 — Image Parameter Values for HDR-TV - Latest (Feb 2025) official ITU-R recommendation defining PQ and HLG transfer functions and HDR-TV image parameters for production/exchange.

• Report ITU-R BT.2408-5 — Operational Practices for HDR TV Production - Official ITU-R guidance report on HDR TV production operational practices: gamma/exposure handling, best-practice workflows.

• Subjective Comparison of Three Tone Mapping Algorithms for HDR-to-SDR - 2025 peer-reviewed paper comparing clip, Reinhard, and Hable-class tone mapping operators for HDR-to-SDR conversion.

Vendors & HDR / HDR Guidelines

• DoViBaker — bake Dolby Vision into clips (⭐76) - AviSynth plugin to bake Dolby Vision dynamic metadata into a clip, best suited for Profile 7 FEL sources.

• HDR10, HDR10+, HLG, and Dolby Vision Compared - Independent technical blog with encoder-level detail: x265/rav1e metadata args, MaxFALL/MaxCLL syntax examples across HDR formats.

Vendors & HDR / Vendor Docs

• AOM HDR10+ AV1 Metadata Handling Specification - Alliance for Open Media's official spec for HDR10+ dynamic metadata in AV1: OBU metadata_type, ITU-T T35 payload structure, per-frame metadata rules.

• Dolby Hybrik: Dolby Vision Workflow Docs - Dolby Hybrik cloud transcoding documentation for Dolby Vision workflow configuration, concrete pipeline/config detail.

• Dolby Vision Profile 8/9 FAQ - Official Dolby FAQ with profile-specific engineering detail on Dolby Vision Profile 8 and 9.

• Dolby Vision Profiles and Levels Explained - Official Dolby technical support article breaking down Dolby Vision profiles 0-9, cross-compatible base layers (HDR10/HLG/SDR fallback via VUI metadata).

Video Codec Specifications / Vendor Docs

• FFV1 (⭐211) - Lossless video codec specification.

• VP9 Bitstream & Decoding Process Specification v0.6 - Official Google draft bitstream and decoding process specification for VP9.

Adaptive Streaming Standards / Vendor Docs

• AV1 Rtp Spec (⭐69) - Current draft (HTML): HTTPS://aomediacodec.GitHub.io/av1-rtp-spec/.

• SCTE (⭐11) - Python library to work with SCTE standards.

Industry Forums & Standards Bodies / Vendor Docs

• Awesome Broadcasting (⭐1.8k) - A curated list of amazingly awesome open source resources related to broadcast technologies.

• Official Registration Authority for the ISOBMFF family of standards

Events & Conferences / Vendor Docs

• TwitchCon - A semi-annual convention organized by Twitch Interactive, focusing on the culture of livestreaming, entertainment, esports, and internet culture. It provides opportunities for industry professionals, streamers, and fans to meet, discover new products, and trial upcoming games.

Events & Conferences / Podcasts & Webinars

• Demuxed Podcast - Podcast for video engineers run by Heavybit, 22+ episodes covering DASH, HLS, RTMP, hls.js, Shaka Player, and low-latency streaming with guests from Bitmovin, Vimeo, VideoLAN, and Livepeer.

• SVTA Webinars (SVTA University) - Streaming Video Technology Alliance's recurring monthly webinar series featuring member-company experts on streaming security, CDN, and playback best practices.

• The Video Insiders — codec/encoding podcast - Podcast on video codecs, encoding and compression featuring industry experts (Jan Ozer et al.), covering codec futures and WebRTC.

• The Video Insiders Podcast - Beamr's ongoing podcast hosted by Mark Donnigan and Dror Gill covering codecs, encoding, transcoding, and streaming industry trends, with guests like Jan Ozer and Guido Meardi.

• Voices of Video (NETINT) — video engineering podcast - Live video-engineering podcast with deep hardware/silicon focus (VPU vs GPU/CPU, ASICs, codecs), hosted by Mark Donnigan and Jan Ozer.

Events & Conferences / Conferences

• ACM Mile-High Video - Conference in Denver covering video coding and streaming research with peer-reviewed talks and an engineer tutorial track (AV2/VVC/AV1).

Community Groups / Conferences

• Doom9's Forum - A longstanding community dedicated to digital audio and video manipulation. It hosts discussions on various video encoding tools and codecs, including x264, AviSynth, and MeGUI. The forum is frequented by developers and enthusiasts, making it a rich resource for technical insights and support.

• FFmpeg Mailing Lists & IRC (Official) - Official FFmpeg community channels: FFmpeg-devel (patch review), FFmpeg-user (help), libav-user mailing lists, plus IRC channel info.

• SVT-AV1 GitHub Discussions (⭐68) - De facto community hub for SVT-AV1 encoder development, tuning, and troubleshooting discussion.

• Video Dev — video engineers community hub - Community hub for video engineers with an open-source focus, gateway to the video-dev Slack and events like Demuxed.

• Videography - R/Videography is a subreddit dedicated to videography discussions, where members share insights, ask questions, and provide feedback on video projects. It's a dynamic community suitable for developers interested in video streaming and encoding tools, offering real-world experiences and advice.

Community Groups / Slack & Meetups

• FFmpeg IRC channels (#FFmpeg, #FFmpeg-devel on Libera.Chat) - Official FFmpeg real-time community channels: #FFmpeg for user support, #FFmpeg-devel for development discussion, logged and active.

Community Groups / Online Forums

• r/AV1 Subreddit - Active community for AV1 codec news, encoder benchmarks, and settings discussion.

Infrastructure & Delivery / Online Forums

• HLS.js P2P Engine (⭐1.1k) - A hls.js plugin to offload bandwidth from expensive traditional CDNs，while also maximizing a user's viewing experience.

• NGINX with nginx-rtmp-module - Nginx, combined with the nginx-rtmp-module, provides a powerful solution for live video streaming. This setup supports HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) in live mode, enabling efficient and scalable live video delivery. It's widely used for setting up live streaming servers due to its performance and flexibility.

• Opencast (GitHub) (⭐499) - An open source enterprise video capture and distribution system, commonly used by educational institutions to manage lecture recordings, process videos, and distribute them to students.

Multi-CDN Management / Online Forums

• cdnselector — Multi-CDN Switching/Failover Server (⭐24) - Deployable multi-CDN switch/failover server for HTTP streaming, routing by geo/network/response-time/device with instant failover and backup CDN warming.

• DASH content steering server (Go) (⭐2) - Standalone open-source MPEG-DASH content steering server in Go, working with the dash.js reference client to switch players between substitutable CDN sources.

• DASH-IF Content Steering (⭐6) - DASH Industry Forum's official specification repository and reference material for content steering, the standard for steering DASH/HLS players between substitutable content/CDN sources.

• Implementing HLS/DASH Content Steering at Scale (Reznik, IBC 2023) - IBC 2023 technical paper by Yuriy Reznik describing a stateless edge design for implementing HLS/DASH content steering for multi-CDN delivery at scale.

• Multi-Regional Multi-CDN Content Steering (ACM Mile-High Video 2025) - Academic paper on the HLS/DASH Content Steering standard for optimizing multi-regional multi-CDN video delivery.

• PIRA: Pan-CDN Intra-video Resource Adaptation for Short Video Streaming - 2025 arXiv paper on intra-video session pan-CDN segment/range selection jointly optimizing QoE and cost for short-video streaming.

• SVTA Open Caching reference code - MIT-licensed reference code and OpenAPI descriptions for SVTA Open Caching, built on IETF CDNI (RFC 8006/8007/8008/8804) plus SVA extensions.

• SVTA: Architectures for Multi-CDN Switching - Streaming Video Technology Alliance industry-consortium project documenting multi-CDN switching architectures including client-side steering and RUM-based selection.

• videojs-cmcd — CMCD plugin for Video.js (⭐16) - Video.js 8.4.0+ plugin that adds Common Media Client Data (CMCD, CTA-5004) reporting to player media requests for QoE analytics and multi-CDN telemetry.

Live Streaming Servers / Online Forums

• Avbroadcast (⭐10) - Republish media streams for mass consumption.

• How To Setup NGINX For HLS Video Streaming On CentOS 7 - How to live stream videos with Nginx.

• livego — Go RTMP/HLS/HTTP-FLV live server (⭐10k) - Simple live streaming server in Go: RTMP ingest, HLS and HTTP-FLV output.

• nginx-ts-module — NGINX live HLS/DASH origin (⭐430) - NGINX module turning the server into a live origin: MPEG-TS over HTTP in, HLS and DASH manifests/segments out.

• OBS Studio (⭐74k) - Free and open source software for live streaming and screen recording.

• OvenMediaEngine — Sub-Second Live Streaming Server (⭐3.2k) - Open-source sub-second latency live streaming server supporting WebRTC and LL-HLS ingest/egress.

• PlayoutAutomation (⭐215) - Television broadcast automation system.

• PyLivestream (⭐747) - Pure Python FFmpeg-based live video / audio streaming to YouTube, Facebook, Periscope, Twitch, and more.

• Stream New (⭐607) - The repo for HTTPS://stream.new.

• xiu (⭐2.3k) - Pure-Rust live media server supporting RTMP clustering, RTSP, WebRTC (WHIP/WHEP), HTTP-FLV, and HLS in one binary.

Streaming Servers / Online Forums

• Ant Media Server (GitHub) (⭐4.7k) - Ant Media Server supports RTMP, RTSP, WebRTC and Adaptive Bitrate. It can also record videos in MP4, HLS and FLV.

• BLSS (⭐194) - NGINX-based Live Media Streaming Server.

• CasparCG - An open source broadcast graphics and video playout server. CasparCG is used to deliver layered videos, images, and templates to professional broadcast environments in real-time.

• CasparCG (GitHub) (⭐1.1k) - A professional open source graphics and video playback server used in TV broadcasting for overlaying graphics, playing videos, and mixing live inputs on multiple outputs.

• Docker NGINX RTMP (⭐1.1k) - A Dockerfile for nginx-rtmp-module + FFmpeg from source with basic settings for streaming HLS. Built on Alpine Linux.

• DVBlast — lightweight MPEG-TS demux & streamer (⭐95) - Lightweight, stable MPEG-2/TS demultiplexer and streamer supporting DVB-S/S2/C/T and ASI inputs with RTP/TS output and CAM descrambling for 24/7 IPTV.

• Gohls (⭐582) - A server that exposes a directory for video streaming via web interface.

• Janus WebRTC Server (GitHub) (⭐9.1k) - An open source WebRTC server (SFU and gateway) that allows the creation of videoconferencing, streaming, and other real-time multimedia applications.

• RTSP Simple Server (⭐20k) - A simple, ready-to-use RTSP streaming server written in Go. It supports publishing and reading streams via RTSP and can also re-distribute via other protocols.

• Srs (⭐29k) - A simple live streaming cluster, a simple joy.

• Tvheadend — Linux TV streaming server (⭐3.5k) - Leading open-source Linux TV streaming server and DVR supporting ATSC, DVB, IPTV and SAT>IP inputs, a common backend for set-top box clients.

• video-server — Go RTSP→HLS/MSE restream origin (⭐34) - Go server connecting to a set of RTSP sources and providing HLS/MSE streams; restream origin.

Streaming Servers / Storage Solutions

• Minio (⭐61k) - A high performance object storage server compatible with Amazon S3 APIs.

• Rclone (⭐58k) - Rsync for cloud storage - Google Drive, Amazon Drive, S3, Dropbox, Backblaze B2, One Drive, Swift, Hubic, Cloudfiles, Google Cloud Storage, Yandex Files.

• Swift (⭐2.8k) - OpenStack object storage system commonly used for storing and serving large video files at scale.

Peer-to-Peer Streaming Solutions / Storage Solutions

• Owncast P2P (owncast-p2p) (⭐3) - Owncast fork adding P2P HLS delivery via SwarmCloud for self-hosted live streaming with peer-assisted bandwidth offload.

• P2P Streaming (⭐2) - Open source WebRTC-based engine for P2P live/VOD streaming directly in a browser page, no plugin required.

• PeerTube (GitHub) (⭐15k) - ActivityPub-federated video hosting platform using WebRTC P2P in-browser delivery to offload server bandwidth, including live streaming support.

• QUANTEEC - A production-ready plugin that enables hybrid P2P CDN delivery to reduce delivery costs and improve QoE during peaks. The QUANTEEC SDK connects users to share data directly with each other, relieving dependence on CDN, rendering delivery more robust and suppressing over-deployments at peak levels. Every user becomes a delivery node for others. Quanteec chases resources where they are available to avoid deploying more infrastructures.

• Stealthy Peers: WebRTC P2P Streaming Security Analysis - Academic security analysis of WebRTC peer-assisted video streaming (P2P CDN offload architectures).

• WebRTC-cdn (⭐14) - Live media CDN over WebRTC: multi-node cluster coordinated via Redis Pub/Sub (Go, Docker) with WHIP/WHEP-style ingest and egress across nodes.

Cloud & CDN / Storage Solutions

• Cloudflare Stream Live: Engineering Deep-Dive - Engineering post on distributed live ingest architecture vs legacy single-region ingest, covering LL-HLS latency, WHIP/WHEP, and SRT support.

• DIY-Streaming-CDN (⭐6) - Reference architecture and OSS stack (OBS + nginx + load balancer) for building a self-hosted livestream CDN.

• Fastly — Video Cache Prefetch with Compute@Edge - Technical writeup on an edge-compute (WebAssembly) pattern that prefetches upcoming video segments at the edge to cut origin round-trips.

• How Cloudflare Streams Video (Engineering) - Engineering deep-dive on Cloudflare Stream's architecture: tus resumable upload protocol, encoding pipeline, dynamic underutilized-datacenter delivery, manifest-based ABR.

• Unified Streaming — Origin Shield Cache Recommendations - Technical doc on the origin shield caching pattern for video streaming to reduce origin load in multi-CDN setups.

• Varnish — Caching Video (official docs) - Official technical guide on caching HLS/DASH segments and manifests with Varnish, including VCL snippets for TTL and live-segment expiry handling.

Cloud & CDN / Cloud Platforms

• Nvidia Docker (⭐18k) - Build and run Docker containers leveraging NVIDIA GPUs.

Streaming Analytics & Monitoring / Cloud Platforms

• aws-samples/cloudfront-cmcd-realtime-dashboard (⭐31) - Grafana dashboard enriching CloudFront logs with CMCD fields (bl/mtp/br/tb) for real-time QoE monitoring.

• Inca — Message Tracing and Loss Detection For Streaming Data @Netflix - At Netflix, our real-time data infrastructure have embraced the multi-cluster Kafka architecture and Flink powered stream processing..

• NUStreaming/CMSD-DASH — CMSD in dash.js (⭐5) - NUS implementation of CMSD in dash.js from the Mile-High Video paper on server-data-driven adaptation.

• OpenQoE - Open-source video QoE monitoring platform with a JS SDK for HTML5/Video.js/hls.js/dash.js/Shaka, Cloudflare Worker ingestion, and Prometheus + Grafana dashboards tracking startup time, rebuffering, errors, and engagement.

• OpenQoE — Open-Source Video QoE Analytics (⭐8) - Apache-2.0 three-tier QoE stack: JS beaconing SDK (HTML5/Video.js/HLS.js/dash.js/Shaka) → Cloudflare Worker ingest → Prometheus/Grafana dashboards tracking startup time, rebuffer, errors, engagement.

• realeyes-media/cta-wave-cmcd-lib — CMCD SDK (⭐3) - CMCD SDK with examples for Android/Kotlin and TS/JS, including hls.js and ExoPlayer CMCDManager implementations.

• unifiedstreaming/origin-cmsd — CMSD Server PoC (⭐3) - Varnish-based proof-of-concept implementing CMSD (Common Media Server Data) at the origin/CDN.

Edge Computing & Caching Solutions / Cloud Platforms

• NGINX Cache Slice: Byte-Range Video Caching - Official NGINX blog explaining the slice module, which splits files into cacheable pieces so byte-range requests fill cache incrementally - purpose-built for HTML5 video pseudostreaming.

• RasoulNik/VoD — RL-based Edge Caching (⭐20) - Research repo implementing reinforcement-learning-based edge caching for VOD, with an nginx edge node and ML cache-eviction policy.

VOD Streaming Servers / Cloud Platforms

• Channel Engine (⭐132) - Engine for generating linear OTT TV channels from VOD content. Useful for creating 24/7 streaming channels.

• Djmediastreamer (⭐2) - A Django project that allows you to catalog and stream your videos (using FFmpeg to add subtitles and transcode).

• Marsha (⭐148) - A self-hosted opensource LTI video provider.

• Pseudo Live Playout (⭐1) - Contribute to Eyevinn/pseudo-live-playout development by creating an account on GitHub.

• Streama (⭐9.8k) - Self hosted streaming media server. HTTPS://docs.streama-project.com/.

• Tube (⭐27) - A YouTube-like (without censorship and features you don't need!) Video Sharing App written in Go which also supports automatic transcoding to MP4 H.265 AAC, multiple collections and R..

CDN Integration & Distribution / Cloud Platforms

• Adxchange Engine (⭐5) - Eyevinn Adxchange Engine is a microservice placed between the server-side ad-insertion component and the adserver or SSP.

• NGINX S3 Proxy (⭐153) - Nginx compiled with aws-auth support, suitable for S3 reverse proxy usage.

• Vmapproxy (⭐1) - Proxy service from Eyevinn for handling VMAP and VAST ad insertion metadata in video streams.

RTMPRTSPHTTP Protocol Servers / CDN Integration

• Dtt2ip (⭐26) - Broadcast to IP conversion for Wifi indoor coverage.

• Dvbshout (⭐10) - Takes an MPEG transport stream from a DVB card, extracts audio channels from stream, and sends the audio to an Icecast / Shoutcast server and/or a RTP multicast packet stream.

• Media Server (⭐3.5k) - RTSP/RTP/RTMP/FLV/HLS/MPEG-TS/MPEG-PS/MPEG-DASH/MP4/fMP4.

• Red5 Server (⭐3.4k) - Open source media server supporting RTMP, HLS, and WebRTC streaming protocols in Java.

Intro & Learning / CDN Integration

• GStreamer Multimedia Framework - GStreamer is a pipeline-based multimedia framework that links together a wide variety of media processing systems to complete complex workflows. It supports various media-handling components, including audio and video playback, recording, streaming, and editing.

• How To Stream Video: A Beginner's Guide - A beginner's guide covering the essentials of setting up audio and video sources, choosing streaming destinations, and understanding the basics of live streaming.

• Video Encoding: The Big Streaming Technology Guide (2023) - A comprehensive guide that delves into video encoding, covering topics such as video compression, encoding formats, hardware vs. software encoding, and adaptive bitrate streaming. This resource is essential for developers aiming to understand the intricacies of video encoding in streaming technology.

Learning Resources / CDN Integration

• Abhik Sarkar — Interactive H.264 Guide - Interactive H.264 compression explainer with live-adjustable parameters and macroblock visualizations, by an independent expert.

• Codec Wiki (⭐107) - Community-maintained reference documenting codecs and quality metrics (XPSNR, SSIMULACRA2, etc.), with definitions and practical usage guidance.

• Engineering at Scale — Internals of Video Streaming - Deep-dive article on video streaming internals: frames, codecs, transcoding, temporal compression and rate control.

Encoding & Transcoding Guides / CDN Integration

• 3 Cases from a Video Expert: Encoding Basics - Vicuesoft blog article explaining fundamental video encoding concepts through practical case studies.

• Codec Wiki — AV1 for Dummies - Independent codec-wiki AV1 getting-started guide covering the encoder pipeline and practical encoding tips.

• Digital Video Introduction (⭐16k) - A hands-on introduction to video technology: image, video, codec (av1, vp9, h265) and more (FFmpeg encoding).

• FFmpeg Encoding Course (⭐112) - An introduction to FFmpeg and its tools.

• Video and containers - NALU, Annex B, and Start Codes.

Books & Courses / CDN Integration

• Fora Soft — Video Encoding course - Free 6-chapter course on video encoding: pixels, HDR, AV1/VVC, encoder internals, rate control, and quality metrics.

Player Development Documentation / CDN Integration

• hls.js API Docs (HLS class reference) - Official generated API reference for hls.js's core Hls class, hosted on the project's own docs domain (not GitHub).

• MSEPrimer — Media Source Extensions Tutorial - Community-maintained primer on Media Source Extensions fundamentals: SourceBuffer, appendBuffer, manifest structure basics.

• Netfix (⭐173) - Educational project walking through building a Netflix-like streaming platform. Demonstrates VOD architecture basics.

• SDK Development Guide (⭐14) - Contribute to rokudev/SDK-Development-Guide development by creating an account on GitHub.

• Shaka Player — Architecture Tutorial (official dev docs) - Official architecture diagrams and explanation of Shaka Player's Networking, Manifest, DRM, and Streaming engine components.

• Shaka Player — Welcome Tutorial (official dev docs) - Official Shaka Player developer onboarding tutorial hub (JSDoc-generated), entry point for building with the library.

• Video.js — Plugin Development Guide (official) - Official Video.js 8+ guide covering basic/advanced plugin architecture and lifecycle events.

Case Studies & Whitepapers / CDN Integration

• How We Scale Live Streaming for Millions of Viewers Simultaneously (Meta Engineering) - Meta engineering case study on coordinated failover, dedicated link capacity, and multi-path geo-distribution for large-scale live broadcasts.

• Ingesting Live Video Streams at Global Scale (Twitch Engineering) - Twitch engineering case study on replacing static HAProxy routing with "Intelligest," a capacity/network-aware live ingest routing system across ~100 PoPs.

• Optimising CDN Cost and Enhancing Video Quality: A Zee5 Case Study - Named-company case study on Zee5's use of AWS MediaConvert QVBR mode and VMAF-driven quality validation to balance CDN cost and video quality.

Tutorials & Case Studies / CDN Integration

• FFmpeg Libav Tutorial (⭐11k) - Learn how media works from basic to transmuxing, transcoding and more.

• HTTP Video Streaming Troubleshooting (⭐83) - A collection of fixes / problem solutions to HTTP video streaming.

Community Blogs & Forums / CDN Integration

• About Frame Rates or Why 29.97? - I recently remembered this popular post from my old blog. Since that blog no longer exists, I thought I would repost it here. Since I wrote this post about a decade ago, many others of done a much better job describing this in detail. I highly recommend the following two videos by Alec Watson fro.

Video Streaming Tutorials / Podcasts

• Awesome Live Stream (⭐472) - WebRTC && Nginx && DASH && Quic 学习资料收集，持续更新中.

• Streaming Onboarding (⭐572) - New to streaming and don't know where to start? This is the place for you!

9. Awesome Preact

Contents / Toolkits

• EviKit - Vite/Preact SSR framework for small web apps. SQLite ORM, OpenAPI validation, translation, SEO.

Contents / Example Apps

• Lanquiz - Host quizzes in LAN from a laptop (Import from Kahoot. Self-host during blackouts).

10. Awesome Vue

Components & Libraries / UI Components

• vue-month-spinner-picker (⭐0) - iOS-style drum-roll month picker for Vue 3. Inertia scrolling, bottom sheet modal, min/max constraints, i18n and theming via CSS variables. Zero dependencies.

11. Awesome Web Security

Forums

• Phrack Magazine - Ezine written by and for hackers.

• The Register - Biting the hand that feeds IT.

XSS - Cross-Site Scripting

• THE BIG BAD WOLF - XSS AND MAINTAINING ACCESS - Written by Paulos Yibelo.

CSV Injection

• The Absurdly Underestimated Dangers of CSV Injection - Written by George Mauer.

ORM Injection

• HQL for pentesters - Written by @h3xstream.

Rails

• Official Rails Security Guide - Written by Rails team.

AngularJS

• DOM based Angular sandbox escapes - Written by @garethheyes.

• XSS without HTML: Client-Side Template Injection with AngularJS - Written by Gareth Heyes.

CSP

• TWITTER XSS + CSP BYPASS - Written by Paulos Yibelo.

JSMVC

• JavaScript MVC and Templating Frameworks - Written by Mario Heiderich.

Authentication

• Trend Micro Threat Discovery Appliance - Session Generation Authentication Bypass (CVE-2016-8584) - Written by @malerisch and @steventseeley.

Remote Code Execution

• How I Chained 4 vulnerabilities on GitHub Enterprise, From SSRF Execution Chain to RCE! - Written by Orange.

XSS

• ECMAScript 6 from an Attacker's Perspective - Breaking Frameworks, Sandboxes, and everything else - Written by Mario Heiderich.

• Uber XSS via Cookie - Written by zhchbin.

SQL Injection

• GitHub Enterprise SQL Injection - Written by Orange.

NoSQL Injection

• GraphQL NoSQL Injection Through JSON Types - Written by Pete.

XXE

• XXE in WeChat Pay Sdk ( WeChat leave a backdoor on merchant websites) - Written by Rose Jackcode.

SSRF

• AWS takeover through SSRF in JavaScript - Written by Gwen.

URL

• [dev.twitter.com] XSS - Written by Sergey Bobrov.

Frontend (like SOP bypass, URL spoofing, and something like that)

• JSON hijacking for the modern web - Written by portswigger.

Backend (core of Browser implementation, and often refers to C or C++ part)

• Attacking JavaScript Engines - A case study of JavaScriptCore and CVE-2016-4622 - Written by phrack@saelo.net.

Reconnaissance / OSINT - Open-Source Intelligence

• SpiderFoot - Open source footprinting and intelligence-gathering tool by @binarypool.

Penetration Testing / Sub Domain Enumeration

• ARS3NAL (⭐159) - Offline-first, self-hosted pentest & bug-bounty arsenal - searchable payloads, a click-to-build command generator, GTFOBins, wordlists, an embedded CyberChef, reverse shells and per-vulnerability checklists, with a live static demo - by @inflictx.

Decompiler / Server-Side Request Forgery

• CFR - Another java decompiler by @LeeAtBenf.

Blogs / Server-Side Request Forgery

• Orange - Taiwan's talented web penetrator.

• 0Day Labs - Awesome bug-bounty and challenges writeups.

Application / Server-Side Request Forgery

• SELinux Game - Learn SELinux by doing. Solve Puzzles, show skillz - Written by @selinuxgame.

• Hackxor - Realistic web application hacking game - Written by @albinowax.

Community / Server-Side Request Forgery

• Stack Overflow

Miscellaneous / Server-Side Request Forgery

• Brute Forcing Your Facebook Email and Phone Number - Written by PwnDizzle.

• Pentest + Exploit dev Cheatsheet wallpaper - Penetration Testing and Exploit Dev CheatSheet.

• The Definitive Security Data Science and Machine Learning Guide - Written by JASON TROS.

• The bug bounty program that changed my life - Written by Gwen.

12. Awesome Zig

Fundamentals / Utility

• bare-devcontainer/templates (⭐0) - Security-focused Zig dev container with zls integration and a persistent build cache. The base image is available at bare-devcontainer/images (⭐2).

Network & Web / Network

• zig-nostr/nostr (⭐4) - The Nostr protocol natively in Zig: secp256k1/Schnorr keys, events, relay transport with the outbox model, a local-first LMDB event store, NIP-46 remote signing, and more.

13. Awesome Katas

Others

• SQL-exercise (⭐1.5k)

14. Android Security Awesome

Tools / Misc Tools

• Spectre (⭐64) - Radio frequency scanner with recon and offensive capabilities. Monitors cellular, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth LE, and GNSS on-device, with a BLE GATT inspector, iBeacon broadcaster, and local-network discovery.

15. Awesome Ios Books

iOS

• Build Location Apps on iOS with Swift by Jeffrey Linwood

Swift

• Swift Style, Second Edition by Erica Sadun

UI

• Developing Accessible iOS Apps by Daniel Devesa Derksen-Staats

SwiftUI

• Integrating SwiftUI into UIKit Apps by Natalia Panferova

• A SwiftUI Kickstart by Daniel H Steinberg

ARKit

• Computer Vision and Augmented Reality in iOS by Ahmed Fathi Bekhit

Game Development

• Beginning iOS Game Center and GameKit by Kyle Richter, Beau G. Bolle

Testing

• Modularizing Legacy Projects Using TDD by Khaled El-Morabea, Hassaan El-Garem

macOS

• macOS Daemonology by Volodymyr Vashurkin

• Interprocess Communication with macOS by Hem Dutt

16. Awesome Rails

Gems / Other external resources

• active_admin_prism (⭐4) - An ActiveAdmin theme that replaces the default top navigation with a collapsible left sidebar, restyling panels, tables & Formtastic forms into a modern card-based look. 🔴

Starters/Boilerplates / Other external resources

• prism_demo (⭐1) - Sample app for testing and previewing the Prism ActiveAdmin theme; a minimal Rails app pre-wired with active_admin_prism and seeded with dummy data.

17. Awesome Azure Openai Llm

4. Datasets, Evaluation, and Extras

• Extras
  • LLM for Robotics
  • Awesome Demo

5. Best Practices

• Security
  • Security and Governance

18. Awesome Nix

Programming Languages / Elixir

• deps_nix (⭐56) - Converts Mix dependencies to Nix derivations.

19. Awesome Computational Biology

Benchmarks & Datasets

• TCGA virtual spatial transcriptomics atlas — DeepSpot-M predicted transcriptome-wide ST for TCGA H&E (FF + FFPE; 28,664 slides / 32 cancer types; gated). Paper: DeepSpot-M.

• HEST Xenium virtual spatial transcriptomics — DeepSpot-M predicted transcriptome-wide ST for 59 HEST-1k 10x Xenium samples (~13.3M cells) (gated). Paper: DeepSpot-M.

Preprocessing Tools

• SeqBench — Web-based molecular biology sequence workbench for primer design, cloning simulation (Gibson, Golden Gate, restriction digest), CRISPR guide RNA design, and sequence analysis, with a public REST API, OpenAPI 3.1 spec, and MCP server.

Single-cell Foundation Models / Spatial Foundation Models

• DeepSpot (⭐88) — Deep learning model predicting spatial transcriptomics from H&E images at spot and single-cell resolution.

• DeepSpot2Cell (⭐14) — Predicts virtual single-cell spatial transcriptomics from H&E using spot-level supervision (NeurIPS 2025 Imageomics).

• DeepSpot-M (⭐30) — Multimodal foundation model for transcriptome-wide virtual spatial transcriptomics from histology.

• AESTETIK (⭐25) — Autoencoder for spatial transcriptomics representation learning using topology and histology image knowledge.

20. Awesome Datascience

Tutorials

• Understand and Know Machine Learning Engineering by Building Solid Projects

Deep Learning Packages / Visualization Tools

• Glue

• Wrangler

• r2d3

Books / Visualization Tools

• Mining Massive Datasets - free e-book comprehended by an online course

• Advances in Genetic Programming, Vol. 3 - Free Download

• Neural Networks and Deep Learning

Bloggers / Book Deals (Affiliated)

• Greg Reda - Greg Reda Personal Blog

• Drew Conway - Personal Web Page

• Noah Iliinsky - Personal Blog

• Clare Corthell - The Open Source Data Science Masters

• Datawrangling by Peter Skomoroch. MACHINE LEARNING, DATA MINING, AND MORE

• Emilio Ferrara's web page

Podcasts / Book Deals (Affiliated)

• Partially Derivative

Datasets / Book Deals (Affiliated)

• College ROI Dataset (⭐0) - Lifetime return-on-investment estimates for 29,700 US bachelor's programs across 3,392 colleges, built from FREOPP, IPEDS, and BEA regional price data. 5 CSVs with data dictionary, CC BY 4.0, Zenodo DOI.

• Open data Index

21. Awesome Polars

Polars plugins / AI

• polars-skills (⭐42) - Official AI agent skills by @polars-inc.

• polars-mcp (⭐12) - A local MCP server for live API lookup against your installed Polars version by @r-brink.

22. Awesome Incident Response

IR Tools Collection / All-In-One Tools

• Cynative (⭐100) - Deep research agent for your infra - sandboxed, read-only, covers AWS, GCP, Azure, K8s, GitHub and GitLab.

• VanGuard (⭐150) - Cross-platform incident response toolkit with 28 pre-built use cases in a single zero-install binary. Collects memory, disk, network, and cloud artifacts with automated timeline generation.

23. Awesome Acg

Web

• Konsumr - Free manga collection tracker with edition-level volume tracking (Standard, Deluxe, Omnibus, Box Sets), release calendar, episode-by-episode anime tracking, and AniList / MyAnimeList import. [English]

24. Awesome Osint

Main National Search Engines

• Alleba (Philippines) - Philippines search engine

• Baidu (China) - The major search engine used in China

• Eniro (Sweden)

• Gerdoo (Iran)

• Goo (Japan)

• Najdi (Slovenia)

• Naver (South Korea)

• Onet.pl (Poland)

• Orange (France)

• Parseek (Iran)

• SAPO (Portugal)

• Search.ch (Switzerland)

• SoGou (China)

• Walla (Israel)

• Yandex (Russia)

• Zarebin (Iran)

Meta Search

• All-in-One

• AllTheInternet

• Etools

• FaganFinder

• Goofram

• iZito

• Myallsearch

• Qwant - French search engine that relies on Microsoft Bing.

Speciality Search Engines

• 2lingual Search

• Biznar

• CiteSeerX

• Google Custom Search

• WorldWideScience.org

Data and Statistics / GitHub

• Zanran

• AGOA Data Center

• AidData

• AWS Public Datasets

• Bank for International Settlements Statistics

• Berkely Library: Data Lab

• BP Statistical Review of World Energy

• Center for International Earth Science Information Network

• CEPII

• DBPedia

• European Union Open Data Portal

• Eurostat

• Gapminder World

• globalEDGE Database of International Business Statistics

• Google Public Data Explorer

• Government of Canada Open Data

• Human Development Reports

• ILO World Employment and Social Outlook Trends

• ILOSTAT

• IMF World Economic Outlook Database

• Index Mundi

• International Energy Agency Statistics

• International Labour Comparisons

• International Trade Center

• Junar

• LandMatrix

• Latinobarometro

• Library, University of Michigan: Statistics and Datasets

• Nation Master

• OECD Aid Database

• OECD Factbook

• Open Data Network

• Paul Hensel’s General Informational Data Page

• Penn World Table

• Pew Research Center

• Population Reference Bureau Data Finder

• PRS Risk Indicators

• SESRIC Basic Social and Economic Indicators

• SESRIC Databases

• Statista

• The Atlas of Economic Complexity

• The Data and Story Library

• Trading Economics

• Transparency.org Corruption Perception Index

• UN COMTRADE Database

• UN Data

• UNCTAD Country Fact Sheets

• UNCTAD Investment Country Profiles

• UNCTAD STAT

• UNDPs Human Development Index

• UNECE

• UNESCO Institute for Statistics

• UNIDO Statistical Databases

• UNStats Social Indicators

• Upsala Conflict Data Program

• WHO Data

• World Bank Data

• World Bank Data

• World Bank Doing Business

• World Bank Enterprise Surveys

• World Bank Investing Across Borders

• World Integrated Trade Solution

Visual Search and Clustering Search Engines

• Zapmeta

Similar Sites Search

• SimilarSites - Discover websites that are similar to each other

• SitesLike - Find similar websites by category

Document and Slides Search

• Find-pdf-doc

• Free Full PDF

• Scribd

• SlideShare

Code Search

• Reposearch

Major Social Networks

• Facebook

• Odnoklassniki (Russia)

• Pinterest - is an image sharing social media service used to easly discover, share and save ideas using visual representation.

• Qzone (China)

• Taringa (Latin America)

• Weibo (China)

Real-Time Search, Social Media Search, and General Social Media Tools

• Bottlenose

• Buzz sumo - "Use our content insights to generate ideas, create high-performing content, monitor your performance and identify influencers."

• Geocreepy

• Hootsuite

• Klear

• MustBePresent

• OpinionCrawl

• Social DownORNot

• Social Searcher

• SocialBakers

• SocialBlade

• UVRX

Web Monitoring / GitHub

• Netvibes

• Silobreaker

• Reeder

• Alltop

• Awasu

• ChangeDetect

• ChangeDetection

• Deltafeed

• DiggReader

• FeedBooster

• Feederator

• Feed Exileed

• Feed Filter Maker

• Feedly

• FeedReader

• FetchRSS

• FollowThatPage

• Google Alerts - A content change detection and notification service.

• InfoMinder

• Newsblur

• OmeaReader

• OnWebChange

• RSS Micro

• RSS Search Engine

• RSS Search Hub

• RSSOwl

• Selfoss

• Talkwalker

• The Old Reader

• versionista

• WebReader

• WebSite Watcher

• Winds

Social Media Tools / Twitter

• Foller.me

• OneMillionTweetMap

• Sentiment140

• Trends24

• TwChat

• TweetMap

• Twitter Chat Schedule

• Twitter Search

Social Media Tools / Facebook

• Facebook Search

• Fanpage Karma

• Wolfram Alpha Facebook Report

Social Media Tools / Instagram

• Iconosquare

Social Media Tools / Pinterest

• Pingroupie

Social Media Tools / Reddit

• Imgur - The most popular image hosting website used by redditors.

• Mostly Harmless - Mostly Harmless looks up the page you are currently viewing to see if it has been submitted to reddit.

• Reddit Archive - Historical archives of reddit posts.

• Subreddits - Discover new subreddits.

Social Media Tools / VKontakte

• Дезертир

• Barkov.net

• VK5

• VK Community Search

• VK People Search

Social Media Tools / Tumblr

• Tumblr Search

Social Media Tools / Telegram

• Detectiva — Phone/email lookup with 6 search types.

Blog Search / GitHub

• BlogSearchEngine

• Notey - Blog post search engine.

• Twingly

Forums and Discussion Boards Search / GitHub

• Boardreader

• Linkedin Groups

• Ning

Username Check / GitHub

• Name Chk - Check over 30 domains and more than 90 social media account platforms.

• Name Checkr - checks a domain and username across many platforms.

• User Search - Find someone by username, email, phone number or picture across Social Networks, Dating Sites, Forums, Crypto Forums, Chat Sites and Blogs, 3000+ sites Supported!

People Investigations / GitHub

• 192 (UK) - Search by person, business, address. Limited free info, premium data upsell.

• 411 (US) - Search by person, phone number, address, and business. Limited free info, premium data upsell.

• Ancestry - Premium data, free trial with credit card.

• Canada411 - Search by person, phone number, and business. Free.

• Classmates - High-school focused people search. Free acounts allow creating a profile and viewing other members. Premium account required to contact other members.

• Federal Bureau of Prisons - Inmate Locator (US) - Search federal inmates incarcerated from 1982 to the present.

• Fold3 (US Military Records) - Search military records. Search filters limited with free access. Premium access requires subscription.

• Genealogy Bank - Premium data, free trial with credit card.

• Genealogy Links - Genealogy directory with over 50K links.

• Kompass - Business directory and search.

• Reunion - People search. Limited free info, premium data upsell.

• SearchBug - People search. Limited free info, premium data upsell.

• Spokeo - People search. Limited free info, premium data upsell.

• The National Archives (UK) - Search UK national archives.

• VerifiedHer - Free registry of online creators and influencers answering "is she real?" — per-person pages with sourced verdicts (real / AI persona / unverified), documented official accounts, and known impersonations.

• White Pages (US) - People search. Limited free info, premium data upsell.

Email Search / Email Check / GitHub

• Email Address Validator - Improve deliverability, reduce bounce rates, prevent fraud and minimize funnel leaks.

• Email Format - is a website that allows you to find email address formats used by different companies.

• MailTester - hunt for emails and improve your email deliverability

• Peepmail - is a tool that allows you to discover business email addresses for users, even if their email address may not be publicly available or shared.

• Verify Email - The fastest and most accurate email verification tool.

Phone Number Research / GitHub

• Reverse Phone Lookup - Detailed information about phone carrier, region, service provider, and switch information.

• Spy Dialer - Get the voicemail of a cell phone & owner name lookup.

Expert Search / GitHub

• Academia - is a platform for sharing academic research.

• ExpertiseFinder

• ExpertPages

• Experts.com

• HARO

• Licenseplates

• GlobalExperts

• Idealist

• Innocentive

• Internet Experts

• Library of Congress: Ask a Librarian

• Maven

• MuckRack - Extensive database of U.S. government public records obtained through federal and state public records requests. Automated tool that will make public records requests and follow up until records are obtained on your behalf.

• National Speakers Association

• Newswise

• ReseacherID

• SheSource

• Sources

Company Research / GitHub

• AllStocksLinks

• Better Business Bureau

• Bizeurope

• Bloomberg

• Bureau Van Dijk

• Company Registration Round the World

• CompeteShark

• Corporate Information - Aggregated information from publicly available sources on publicly traded companies worldwide.

• EDGAR U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Filings - Periodic reports and extensive corporate disclosures from all businesses publicly traded in the United States.

• Europages

• European Business Register

• Ezilon

• Forbes Global 2000

• globalEdge

• GuideStar

• Hoovers

• Inc. 5000

• Knowledge guide to international company registration

• Mergent Intellect

• Mergent Online

• Orbis directory

• Plunkett Research

• Scoot

• SpyFu

• Vault - Well-known ranking of largest United States Corporations.

Job Search Resources / GitHub

• Beyond

• CampusCareerCenter

• CareerBuilder

• Craiglist

• CVFox

• Dice

• Eluta (Canada)

• Fish4Jobs

• Indeed - is an online job searching website that gives job seekers free access to search for a job, post their resumes, and research companies.

• Jobs (Poland)

• Jobsite (UK)

• Monster

• Naukri (India)

• Reed (UK)

• Seek (Australia)

• SimplyHired

Q&A Sites / GitHub

• Answers.com

• Ask

• eHow

• Quora

• StackExchange

• Yahoo Answers

Domain and IP Research / GitHub

• Argos OSINT - Free Spanish-language OSINT platform: 31 client-side tools + 7 step-by-step guides + 10 curated OSINT prompts for Claude/LLM. Covers WHOIS/RDAP, DoH DNS, subdomain enumeration (crt.sh), unified domain dashboard, IP geolocation, IP reputation via Shodan InternetDB, email header analyzer (SPF/DKIM/DMARC), SPF/DMARC auditor, pwned password check via HIBP k-anonymity, EXIF and PDF metadata analyzers, reverse image search aggregator, Wayback lookup, username finder across 50+ platforms, WhatsApp chat analyzer, JWT decoder, regex/color/UA parser/QR/base64/hash/URL cleaner. No signup, PWA installable, all processing in-browser.

• Bing Webmaster Tools

• BuiltWith - is a website that will help you find out all the technologies used to build a particular websites.

• Central Ops

• Dedicated or Not

• DNSStuff

• DNSViz

• Domain Crawler

• Domain Dossier

• Domain Tools - Whois lookup and domain/ip historical data.

• Follow.net

• GraphyStories

• Infosniper

• IP 2 Geolocation

• IP Checking

• IPFingerprints - is used to find the approximate geographic location of an IP address along with some other useful information including ISP, TimeZone, Area Code, State.

• IPVoid - IP address toolset.

• Kloth

• Netcraft Site Report - is an online database that will provide you a report with detail information about a particular website and the history associated with it.

• OpenLinkProfiler

• PageGlimpse

• RedirectDetective

• SameID

• SEO Chat Tools

• SEOTools for Excel

• SmallSEOTools

• StatsCrop

• urlQuery

• URLVoid - Analyzes a website through multiple blacklist engines and online reputation tools to facilitate the detection of fraudulent and malicious websites.

• Verisign

• ViewDNS.info

• w3snoop - is a website that gives you a free and comprehensive report about a specific website.

• WebMeUp - is the Web's freshest and fastest growing backlink index, and the primary source of backlink data for SEO PowerSuite.

• Website Informer

• WhatIsMyIPAddress

• WhoIsHostingThis

• WhoisMind

• WhoIsRequest

• You Get Signal

Keywords Discovery and Research / GitHub

• Google Adwords - Get monthly keyword volume data and stats.

• Keyword Discovery

• Keyword Spy

• KeywordTool

• One Look Reverse Dictionary

• Soovle

• Ubersuggest

Web History and Website Capture / GitHub

• Archive.is - is a website that allows you to archive a snapshot of you websites that will always remains online evenif the original page disappears.

• BlackWidow

• CashedPages

• CachedView

Image Search / GitHub

• PicTriev - a face search engine.

Image Analysis / GitHub

• ExifTool

• FotoForensics

• ImpulseAdventure

• Jeffreys Image Metadata Viewer

Video Search and Other Video Tools / GitHub

• Bing Videos

• Clip Blast

• DailyMotion

• Deturl - Download a YouTube video from any web page.

• DownloadHelper - Download any video from any websites, it just works!

• Earthcam - EarthCam is the leading network of live streaming webcams for tourism and entertainment.

• Geosearch

• Insecam - Live cameras directory

• Metacafe

• Metatube

• Veoh

• Yahoo Video Search

Academic Resources and Grey Literature / GitHub

• Academic Journals

• African Journal Online - is the world's largest and preeminent platform of African-published scholarly journals

• American Society of Civil Engineers

• Base

• Bibsonomy

• Grey Guide

• Grey Literature Strategies

• Grey Literature – List of Gateways

• GreyNet International

• HighWire: Free Online Full-text Articles

• Journal Seek

• JSTOR - Search over 10 million academic journal articles, books, and primary sources.

• Lazy Scholar

• Microsoft Academic

• NRC Research Press

• OA.mg A database of over 240 million scientific works, with PDFs for all Open Access papers in their catalogue (~ 40 million)

• Open Access Scientific Journals

• Open Grey

• Oxford Journals

• PubMed - Search more than 27 millions citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books.

• Research Gate

• SAGE Journals

• Science Publications

• ScienceDirect

• ScienceDomain

• SCIRP

• Springer

• Taylor & Francis Online

• The Open Syllabus Project

• World Digital Library

• World Science

• Zetoc

Geospatial Research and Mapping Tools / GitHub

• Atlasify

• Batchgeo

• Bing Maps

• Colorbrewer

• Esri

• Flash Earth

• GeoGig

• GeoNames

• Google Earth

• GPSVisualizer

• GrassGIS

• Here

• Inspire Geoportal

• Instant Google Street View

• InstantAtlas

• Kartograph

• MapAList

• Maperitive

• MapJam

• Modest Maps

• Open Street Map

• Polymaps

• QGIS

• SAS Planet - Software used to view, download and stitch satellite images.

• Scribble Maps

• StoryMaps

• Tableau

• ViaMichelin

• View in Google Earth

• Wikimapia

• WorldMap Harvard

Infographics and Data Visualization / GitHub

• Leaflet - an open-source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps.

• OpenLayers - A high-performance, feature-packed library for all your mapping needs.

• Aeon

• Arbor.js

• Beaker

• Bizint

• Chart.js - a javascript library that allows you to create charts easly

• chartblocks

• Circos

• creately

• Crossfilter

• Data Visualization Catalogue

• Dropmark

• dygraphs

• easely

• Exhibit

• Flot

• FusionCharts

• GraphX

• Highcharts

• Hohli

• Java Infovis Toolkit

• JpGraph

• jqPlot - A Versatile and Expandable jQuery Plotting Plugin.

• Linkuroius

• Listify - Turn a Google spreadsheet into a beautiful, searchable listing in seconds.

• Palladio - Visualize complex historical data with ease.

• Pixxa

• Quadrigram

• Raphael

• RAW

• Shanti Interactive

• Tableau

• Tiki-toki

• Timeline

• Timeline

• Timetoast

• Vis.js

• Visme

• Visualize Free

• Visualize.me

• visually

• Vortex

• ZingChart

News / GitHub

• 1st Headlines

• ABYZNewsLinks

• Agence France-Presse (AFP)

• AllYouCanRead

• AP

• BBC News

• Bing News

• CNN

• DailyEarth

• DPA International

• Euronews

• Factiva

• France24

• Google News Print Archive

• HeadlineSpot

• Itar-Tass

• List of Newspapers.com

• MagPortal

• News Map

• News Now

• Newseum - Today Front Pages

• Newslink

• NewsLookup

• Newspaper Map

• Newspaperindex

• Newspapers.com

• NewsWhip

• OnlineNewspapers

• Paperboy

• PR Newswire

• Press Reader

• Reuters

• Topix

• WorldNews

• World-Newspapers

• Yahoo News

News Digest and Discovery Tools / GitHub

• Newsinshorts

• Nod

• Spike

• Storyful

• Trooclick

Fact Checking / GitHub

• Emergent

• Fact Check

• Snopes - The definitive Internet reference source for urban legends, folklore, myths, rumors, and misinformation.

• Verification Handbook

Browsers / GitHub

• CentBrowser

• Coowon

• Maxthon

• Opera

• Safari

• Sleipnir

• Slimjet

• SRWare Iron

• Torch

• UCBrowser

Offline Browsing / GitHub

• A1 Website Download - Download entire websites to disk.

• Cyotek WebCopy - is a free tool for automatically downloading the content of a website onto your local device.

• Hooey webprint

• Offliberty - is a website that lets you access any online content without a permanent Internet connection.

• SiteSucker

• WebAssistant

• Website Ripper Copier

Social Network Analysis / GitHub

• Sentinel Visualizer

Privacy and Encryption Tools / GitHub

• Do Not Track

• EncSF MP

• Eraser

• justdeleteme

• KeePass Password Safe - is a free and open-source password manager that uses the most secure encryption algorithms to safegard your passwords.

• Master Password

• Nixory

• Peerblock

• Privazer

• ZMail

Other Tools / GitHub

• Barcode Reader - Decode barcodes in C#, VB, Java, C\C++, Delphi, PHP and other languages.

• OSINT Framework - Web based framework for OSINT.

• Outwit - Find, grab and organize all kinds of data and media from online sources.

OSINT Blogs / GitHub

• Sleuth For The Truth

Other Resources / GitHub

• Bellingcat's Online Investigation Toolkit

25. Awesome Ironsworn

Resources / Starforged

• Pocket Starforged - Pocket-sized cards and foldable reference sheets for playing Starforged on-the-go

26. Free Programming Books (Chinese)

人工智能

• 游戏策划实务即用的 AI · Claude Code 活用法 (⭐0) - 李旼洙

• 遊戲策劃實務即用的 AI · Claude Code 活用法 (⭐0) - 李旼洙

27. Awesome Gemini Cli

Agent Orchestration & CLI Tools

• PickySteve (⭐9) - Skill router and context picker for coding agents: a local model (via Ollama, offline by default) routes each prompt to the right skill via hybrid BM25 + embedding retrieval, cross-encoder rerank, and an LLM judge, then assembles a minimal context bundle for the execution model. Built-in prompt-injection gate scans every retrieved document, fail-closed. Ships an MCP stdio server and an OpenAI-compatible proxy; one-command installer wires 18 coding agents including Gemini CLI. MIT.

Commands & Extensions

• 16-eyes (⭐3) - AI-driven security audits via custom Gemini CLI commands and subagents (also supports Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot) — profiles the repo, verifies every finding, adversarially disproves high-impact ones before they reach the report. Install via npx 16-eyes install --target gemini.

MCP Servers

• Find MCP - Search 17,000+ MCP servers synced from the official MCP registry (registry.modelcontextprotocol.io). Remote Streamable HTTP (https://catalog.agentage.io/mcp, no auth for search) or stdio (npx -y @agentage/find-mcp). Works with Gemini CLI: gemini mcp add --transport http find-mcp https://catalog.agentage.io/mcp.

Documentation & Examples

• Antigravity CLI Tips (⭐4) - Practical tips for Antigravity CLI (agy), the official successor to Gemini CLI.

28. Awesome Mac

System Tools / Menu Bar

• aqua5230/usage (⭐254) — Claude Code and Codex quota in the menu bar with burn-rate predictions, zero API calls ☆256

29. Awesome Python

Projects / Data Analysis

• percentify (⭐310) - Exploratory stats and data-quality diagnostics/profiler, that supports both pandas and Polars DataFrames inputs.

Projects / Package Management

• hatch (⭐7.2k) - Modern, extensible Python project manager for environments, builds, and publishing.

30. Awesome Playcanvas

3D Gaussian Splatting / YouTube Playables

• Braintrance - A platform to share and experience 3D memories.

• Form Chasers - A community site for sharing scans of vehicles.

• Splat Labs - Capture, host and share immersive Gaussian splat digital twins.

• SplatMart - Marketplace for buying and selling Gaussian splat scenes and assets.

• Splatimation - Create and publish 3D virtual tours.

31. Awesome Mysql

Development

• cover_me (⭐0) - code coverage tool for mysql stored procedures and functions

32. Awesome Machine Learning

C / General-Purpose Machine Learning

• notorch (⭐14) - Neural networks framework in pure C: training and inference, no dependencies.

33. Awesome Terraform

Community

• The Ultimate Terraform Cheatsheet for DevOps Engineers

Self-Hosted Registries / Miscellaneous

• terramantle.dev - A registry that focuses on module & state insights, tackling dependency management

Managed Registries / Miscellaneous

• Terramantle - A private Terraform/OpenTofu registry with deep module insights, dependency mapping, and state visibility.

Tools / Community providers

• Shieldly (⭐1) - AI-powered security analysis for Terraform-generated IAM policies and CloudFormation, explaining why a permission is risky and how to fix it. Free tier, CLI and GitHub Action.

34. Collective Ai Tools

Dating

• Mistress.to - Mistress.to is an Immersive femdom AI companion featuring interactive audio voice calls, text chat, and high-quality image and video generation. #freemium

Developer Tools

• codex-profiles (⭐54) - Selects named CODEX_HOME profiles and, on macOS, named ChatGPT Desktop windows with separate local state, without copying tokens. #free #opensource

• Markstream - Open-source streaming Markdown renderer for AI chat interfaces, with incomplete-token handling and packages for Vue, React, Svelte, Angular, and Vue 2. #free #opensource

35. Awesome V

Command-line

• vin32 (⭐0) - A basic, heuristic-based CLI tool to generate V language bindings from simple Windows C header files.

• vtrace (⭐0) - An automated execution tracer and step-by-step source code instrumenter for the V programming language.

Eventing

• rxv (⭐16) - Reactive Extensions for the V language. Compose async event streams with creation, filtering, transformation, aggregation, timing, and combination operators.

Graphics

• vsl.vcl (⭐400) - VCL is a high level way of writing programs with OpenCL using V. These are highly opinionated OpenCL bindings for V. It tries to make GPU computing easy, with some sugar abstraction, V's concurrency and channels.

• vsl.plot (⭐400) - Plotting module for VSL with 85+ examples. Create line charts, scatter plots, 3D surfaces, bar charts, box plots, histograms, heatmaps, and more.

Networking

• netr (⭐1) - A modular, zero-dependency raw socket and network packet crafting library written in V.

Operating system

• rgc (⭐0) - A lightweight, concurrent resource garbage collector for V.

• vcomp (⭐0) - A lightweight Linux Seccomp (Secure Computing Mode) BPF filter wrapper for vlang.

Scientific computing

• vsl.fft (⭐400) - Fast Fourier Transform module for VSL. Includes real and complex FFT with multiple backend options.

• vsl.ml (⭐400) - Machine Learning module for VSL with K-means, KNN, linear/logistic regression, SVM, decision trees, random forest, and more.

• vsl.quaternion (⭐400) - Quaternion math module for VSL. Supports 3D rotations, spherical linear interpolation (slerp), and Julia fractal generation.

• vtl.autograd (⭐166) - Automatic differentiation module for VTL. Enables gradient computation for machine learning and optimization.

• vtl.datasets (⭐166) - Datasets module for VTL providing built-in datasets for ML benchmarking and tutorials.

• vtl.nn (⭐166) - Neural Networks module for VTL. Build and train deep learning models with layers, activations, and optimizers.

Utility

• vop (⭐0) - A message-passing object protocol providing dynamic property management and closure-based state encapsulation.

GitHub Actions / Vim

• setup-v (⭐33) - GitHub Action to install and use V in your workflow. Available on the marketplace.

36. Awesome Selfhosted

Software / Automation

• HomeButler - Homelab management tool for monitoring hosts, Docker services, Wake-on-LAN, inventory, and remote operations, with a web dashboard and MCP integrations. (Source Code (⭐164)) MIT Docker/Go

Software / Communication - Social Networks and Forums

• Habitat - A Platform for Local Communities. (Source Code) AGPL-3.0 Docker

Software / Database Management

• LibreDB Studio - Browser-based SQL IDE for PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, SQLite, MongoDB and Redis, with an optional AI assistant that writes SQL from natural language (alternative to DataGrip, DBeaver). (Source Code) MIT Docker/K8S

Software / File Transfer - Single-click & Drag-n-drop Upload

• snowshare - File and link sharing platform with URL shortening, code snippet sharing, and file uploads, featuring customizable expiration, privacy settings, and QR codes. (Demo) CC0-1.0 Nodejs/Docker

Software / File Transfer - Web-based File Managers

• ClyoCloud - A personal, self-hosted cloud storage and media management application built for privacy, efficiency, and aesthetics. MIT Nodejs

Software / Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI)

• GoModel - AI gateway written in Go with a unified OpenAI-compatible API for multiple LLM providers, USD cost tracking, budgets, usage analytics, guardrails, caching, and an admin dashboard. (Source Code (⭐995)) MIT Go/Docker

Software / Media Management

• youtube-dl-nas ⚠ - Authenticated yt-dlp download queue for video, audio and subtitles, with history, mobile sharing and NAS file management (fork of youtube-dl-server). (Source Code (⭐167)) MIT Python/Docker

Software / Media Streaming - Video Streaming

• Tiramisu - BitTorrent engine with a FUSE virtual filesystem that streams torrents live to Plex/Jellyfin without downloading (alternative to Real-Debrid). GPL-2.0 Go/Docker

Software / Proxy

• GitProxy - Proxy for Git that applies rules and workflows to all outgoing git push operations and ensures they are compliant. It supports both HTTP/HTTPS and SSH protocols with security scanning and validation. (Source Code) Apache-2.0 Nodejs/Docker

Software / Task Management & To-do Lists

• Will Be Done - Offline-first task manager with weekly planning, project boards, real-time sync, Vim keybindings, desktop quick add, and import from popular task managers (alternative to TickTick, Todoist). (Demo, Source Code (⭐97)) AGPL-3.0 Docker/Nodejs

Software / Travel Organization

• Surmai - Collaborative personal and family travel organizer. (Demo, Source Code (⭐268)) MIT Docker

37. Awesome Tmux

Cheat Sheets

• tmuxcheatsheet.org - Interactive, searchable cheat sheet with copy-to-clipboard commands and a customizable prefix key

Tools and session management

• kubectl-tmux-exec (⭐142) A kubectl plugin that uses tmux to control multiple Kubernetes pods' shells simultaneously, broadcasting commands to all selected containers at once.

38. Awesome Cli Apps

AI / Agents

• faf-cli (⭐30) - Authors AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md and .cursorrules AI-Context files from your repo's real stack.

39. Awesome Go

Finance & Blockchain / Payment APIs

• brunovenceslau/ynab.go (⭐78) — Client for YNAB API ☆78

Networking / Protocols

• ccding/go-stun (⭐720) — A go implementation of the STUN client (RFC 3489 and RFC 5389) ☆721

Web Development / Web Frameworks

• uadmin/uadmin (⭐354) — The web framework for Golang ☆354

40. Awesome Ruby

Business logic

• Stoplight (⭐620) - A circuit breaker implementation for Ruby that prevents cascading failures when external dependencies (databases, APIs, third-party services) start failing.

Internationalization

• rails-i18n-manager (⭐225) - Web interface to manage i18n translations helping to facilitate the editors of your translations.

41. Awesome Mac

Utilities / General Tools

• HTTrack - Useful tool for downloading a whole website and offline browsing.

• AirServer - Most advanced screen mirroring software receiver for Mac, PC and Xbox One.

• Memo - Simple and elegant app. Unlock memos even more quickly using Touch ID.

• Numi - Beautiful calculator app for Mac.

• OpenDisplay - Use a spare iPhone or iPad as a second display for your Mac, wired (USB) or over WiFi, with touch input.

Reading and Writing Tools / Text Editors

• Brackets - A modern, open source text editor that understands web design.

• LightTable - The next generation code editor.

• Sublime Text - Text editor with a fast interface and plugin ecosystem. For more plugins, check Sublime Text Plugins.

• Vim - An old terminal-based editor. For common plugins, check Vim Common Plugins.

• Vimr - Refined Vim Experience for OS X.

Reading and Writing Tools / Markdown Tools

• Marked 2 - This is the Markdown preview with an elegant and powerful set of tools for all writers.

• MWeb - Pro Markdown writing, and static blog generator App.

• Typora - Truly minimal Markdown editor featuring seamless live preview.

Reading and Writing Tools / Note-taking

• Bear Writer - Beautiful, flexible writing app for crafting notes and prose.

• Notes - Clean, simple note-taking app.

• QOwnNotes - Open-source notepad with markdown support and todo list manager.

• Quiver - Mix text, code, Markdown, and LaTeX in one note with live preview.

Reading and Writing Tools / Ebooks

• Calibre - Free, open-source e-book manager and reader.

• Klib - New way to manage highlights for Kindle and iBooks.

Reading and Writing Tools / RSS

• Leaf - A news reader for managing subscriptions and enjoying daily news.

• ReadKit - Bookmark and RSS management client.

• Reeder 5 - News reader for Feedbin, Feedly, Feed Wrangler and so on.

• Vienna - RSS/Atom reader for Mac OS X.

Reading and Writing Tools / Others

• CHM Reader - Read Compiled HTML (.chm) documents on your Mac.

• Chmox - Read CHM documents on your Mac.

• PDF Reader Pro - You Can view, create, sign, convert and compress any PDF documents.

• Skim - PDF reader and note-taker for OS X.

• TabType (⭐0) - Free, open-source AI autocomplete for every Mac app — on-device ghost-text suggestions powered by a local LLM (MLX); nothing leaves your Mac.

Developer Tools / IDEs

• Espresso - The web editor for Mac is back. For people who make delightful, innovative and fast websites.

• Haskell for Mac - A Modern Development Environment for Haskell.

Developer Tools / Developer Utilities

• BetterRename - The most powerful and complete Mac file renaming application on the market.

• Beyond Compare - Compare files and folders with powerful commands.

• DiffMerge - Application to visually compare and merge files.

• Integrity - Free website link checker for Mac.

• Koala - GUI application for Less, Sass, Compass and CoffeeScript compilation.

• Solarized - Clean and beautiful color theme. Works well with iTerm, JetBrains products, Vim etc.

• StarUML - Powerful UML app.

• TeXstudio - Integrated writing environment for creating LaTeX documents.

• Woodpecker - View iOS app's Sandbox files, UserDefaults, Keychain items on a Mac.

Developer Tools / Regular Expression Editors

• Patterns - Regular expression editor.

• RegExRX - Development tool for regular expressions.

Developer Tools / Frameworks For Hybrid Applications

• AppJS - Lightweight JavaScript UI library for creating mobile webapps that behave like native apps.

• Electron - Build cross platform desktop application with JavaScript, HTML and CSS.

• ionic - Build native and web apps with Angular and open web technologies.

• MacGap - Lightweight JavaScript API for OS X integration.

• nw.js - Build desktop apps with HTML and JavaScript.

• react-desktop - React UI Components for macOS Sierra.

Developer Tools / Version Control

• Cornerstone - Powerful version control with a gorgeous interface.

• GitUp - A simple & powerful Git client。

• SmartGit - Git client with support.

• Changes (⭐270) - GUI Git client. Replace the Git CLI with a clear UI and AI assist.

Developer Tools / Virtualization

• Parallels - Powerful, easy-to-use VM. No free upgrade for each new Mac OS.

• Virtual Box - Powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product.

• VMware Fusion - Powerful, commercial VM developed by VMware.

Developer Tools / Databases

• Base 2 - Application for creating, designing, editing and browsing SQLite 3 database files.

• DB Browser for SQLite - Official home of the DB Browser for SQLite.

• ElectroCRUD - Modern MySQL CRUD application.

• MDB Explorer - MDB tool to open, read, export your MDB files to other formats and databases.

• Medis - GUI Manager for Redis.

• MySQL Workbench - The official MySQL GUI.

• Postgres.app - The easiest way to get started with PostgreSQL on the Mac.

• PSequel - PostgreSQL GUI tool for Mac OS X.

• RedisDesktopManager - Cross-platform GUI management tool for Redis.

• Sequel Pro - MySQL database management for Mac OS X.

• SQLPro Studio - Simple, powerful database manager for macOS.

Terminal Apps / Databases

• iTerm2 - iTerm2 is an amazing terminal emulator for OS X.

Design and Product / Design Tools

• Alchemy - Experimental, open-source drawing application with an emphasis on creating conceptual art.

• FontForge - Free, open-source font editor.

• MakeHuman - Powerful and free 3D human modeler.

• Monodraw - Powerful ASCII art editor designed for the Mac.

• Paintbrush - Bitmap image editor.

• Pixelmator - Full-featured image editor for Mac.

• Principle - Application for designing animated and interactive user interfaces.

• Sketch - Professional digital design for mac.
  • Sketch Cache Cleaner - Deletes hidden Sketch history files.
  • Measure Plugin - Make it a fun to create spec for developers and teammates.
  • Sketch Toolbox Plugin Manager - Simple plugin manager for Sketch.
  • User Flows Plugin - Generating flow diagrams from Artboards.

• Tayasui Sketches - Professional drawing software.

Design and Product / Prototyping and Mind-Mapping Tools

• Adobe XD - Tool for designing and prototyping websites and mobile apps.

• Axure RP 8 - Prototypes, specifications and diagrams in one tool.

• Framer - Tool for interactive prototyping.

• Justinmind - Prototyping platform for web and mobile apps.

• Mockplus - Prototype faster, smarter and easier.

• Origami Studio - Tool for designing modern interfaces, built and used by designers at Facebook.

• pencil - Free, open-source tool for making diagrams and GUI prototyping.

• Scapple - Practical mind-mapping software with free whiteboard-like layout.

• XMind - The most popular mind-mapping tool on the planet.

Design and Product / Screenshot Tools

• Snip - Application for sharing captured images on QQ Mail.

• Teampaper Snap - Let your screenshots speak up.

• Xnip - Handy Screenshot App.

Design and Product / Screen Recording

• Licecap - Screen recorder that exports directly to GIF.

Design and Product / Other Tools

• Couleurs - Simple app for grabbing and tweaking the colors you see on your screen.

• Iconjar - Icon management tool to organize or search your icons.

• IconKit - App icon generator.

• Image2icon - Create and personalize icons from your pictures.

• JPEGmini - Reduce image size by up to 80%, without compromising quality.

• Mark Man - Measure & Spec Fast.

• Resize Master - Batch resize and watermark your images fast and easy.

• RightFont - Preview, sync, install and manage fonts on Mac, Dropbox or Google Drive.

• svgus - Organize, clean and transform your SVGs.

AI Tools / Other Tools

• Agent Teams AI - Open-source desktop app for coordinating autonomous AI coding agents through team messaging, task boards, and code review.

• Tura - Tura is a local, open-source coding agent for developers who are tired of vague skill claims, token-saving extensions with no evidence, and agents that change a repository before understanding it.

• LingShu - Open-source, model-agnostic macOS agent for verified code, documents, slides, and computer actions.

• LokalBot - On-device meeting notes, dictation, inline autocomplete, and searchable work memory for macOS.

Communication / Collaboration and Team Tools

• Franz - Messaging app that combines multiple chat services in one place.

• LimeChat - Open-source IRC client for Mac OS X.

• Rambox - Messaging and emailing app that combines common web applications into one.

Communication / Email Clients

• Airmail - Fast email client. For both Mac OS and iOS.

• Foxmail - Fast email client.

Communication / File Sharing

• Flow - Award-winning, beautiful, fast, and reliable FTP + SFTP client.

Data Recovery Tools / File Sharing

• DiskWarrior - The world’s most advanced repair and recovery tool for Mac.

• R-Studio for Mac - Data recovery tool for damaged, deleted, or formatted disks.

Audio and Video Tools / File Sharing

• Audacity - Free, open-source, cross-platform audio software for multi-track recording and editing.

• Audio Hijack - Record any application's audio, including VoIP calls from Skype, web streams from Safari, and much more.

• Cog - Free, open-source audio player.

• Hydrogen - Professional yet simple and intuitive pattern-based drum programming for GNU/Linux.

• Metadatics - Advanced Audio Metadata Editor.

• Mixxx - The most advanced free DJ software.

• Perian - (No longer under active development) Let QuickTime play all the common formats of free plug-ins.

• ScreenFlow - Screencasting and video editing software.

• Stringed 2 - Music practice software designed to help users learn how to play their favorite songs.

• Synfig Studio - Synfig Studio is free, open-source 2D animation software.

• VLC - Open-source multimedia player for most audio, video, and streaming formats.

• XLD - Tool to decode, convert and play various 'lossless' audio files.

Audio and Video Tools / Audio Record and Process

• Segue - Broadcast audio playout with crossfade, trim, ramp timers, and pause beds for live radio and podcasts.

Download Management Tools / Audio Record and Process

• FOLX - Free download manager for Mac OS X with a true Mac-style interface.

• JDownloader - Open-source download manager for links, files, and hosted content.

Input Methods / Audio Record and Process

• Rocket - Makes typing emoji faster and easier using Slack-style shortcuts.

Translation Tools / Audio Record and Process

• iTranslate - Translation app for text and web pages in multiple languages.

Security Tools / Audio Record and Process

• LinkLiar - Link-Layer MAC spoofing GUI for macOS.

Proxy and VPN Tools / Audio Record and Process

• ShadowsocksX - Secure socks5 proxy, designed to protect your internet traffic.

Utilities / Clipboard Tools

• ClipMenu - Clipboard manager for Mac OS X.

• Paste - Smart clipboard history & snippets manager.

• Nimclip - Local-first clipboard history manager with search, tags, and image support.

Utilities / Menu Bar Tools

• MacTools (⭐649) - Open-source menu bar toolkit with plugins for display controls, system toggles, cleanup, device status, and everyday utilities.

• Tactile - Adds subtle trackpad haptic taps over clickable elements, with optional visual cues for accessibility.

Utilities / Cleanup and Uninstall

• AppCleaner - Thoroughly uninstall apps.

Utilities / File Organization Tools

• eZip - Lightweight archive tool for ZIP, RAR, 7Z, and other common formats.

• muCommander - Lightweight file manager with a dual-pane interface.

Utilities / To-Do Lists

• 2Do - Nice todo app.

• Day-O 2 - Menu bar clock replacement with built-in calendar.

Utilities / Productivity

• Hammerspoon - Tool for powerful OSX automation with the Lua scripting engine.

• Keyboard Maestro - Automate repetitive tasks with triggers and macros.

• Keytty - App to keep your hands on the keyboard. Move, click, scroll, drag and more with a few strokes.

• SensibleSideButtons - Make mouse side buttons work for back and forward in more apps.

• StrokeMouse - Custom mouse gestures that can trigger keyboard shortcuts, open apps, perform window actions, run shell commands, or execute AppleScript after drawing a stroke.

• Ukelele - Unicode Keyboard Layout Editor.

• xScope - Toolset for measuring, inspecting, and testing on-screen layouts and graphics.

Utilities / Window Management

• Amethyst - Tiling window manager.

• Divvy - Window management at its finest with its amazing Divvy Grid system.

• Magnet - Window manager that keeps your workspace organized.

• Moom - Window management tool for moving, resizing, and saving layouts.

• Sidebar - The modern Dock replacement for your Mac.

• SizeUp - Powerful, keyboard-centric window management.

• Total Spaces - Workspace manager with hotkeys and spatial overview.

Utilities / Finder Tools

• ForkLift - The most advanced dual pane file manager and file transfer client for macOS.

• Path Finder - File management app.

• TotalFinder - Chrome-styled Finder substitute.

Utilities / Quality of Life Improvements

• Shifty - A macOS menu bar app that gives you more control over Night Shift.

• Snap - Launch an app in a snap. Ridiculously easy shortcut management.

Utilities / System Related Tools

• HandShaker - Manage Android phone content on Mac.

• Monity - System monitoring widget for OS X.

• Mounty - Tiny tool to re-mount write-protected NTFS volumes under Mac OS X 10.9+ in read-write mode.

• Tuxera NTFS - Full read-write compatibility with NTFS-formatted drives on a Mac.

Gaming Software / System Related Tools

• OpenEmu - Retro game emulator frontend for multiple console systems.

• Porting Kit - Install Windows® Games inside your Mac.

Mac App Download Sites / Genuine Sites

• alternativeTo - Also a very nice community. If you are looking for some alternative apps FOR Windows or another platform, check this site.

• App Shopper：https://appshopper.com/

Mac App Download Sites / Pirated software download site blocklist

• AppKed：https://www.macbed.com

• Appstorrent：https://appstorrent.ru/

42. Awesome Mqtt

Platforms

• IoT DC3 (⭐650) - Fully open-source, distributed industrial IoT platform built on Spring Cloud, with 28 built-in protocol drivers (including MQTT), AI-powered operations via Spring AI, and microservice architecture. (Docs)

43. Urban and Regional Planning Resources

Platforms and Software Resources / AI in Planning Tools and Platforms

• Unsloth - An open-source framework that enables the running and training of models on local hardware.

44. Awesome Game Remakes

Action

• OpenChaos (⭐0) - OpenChaos — Fan Modernization of Urban Chaos

• Sunny-Survival-Remake-Code (⭐0) - Code for my game called "Sunny Survival Remake"

Arcade

• atomiks (⭐2) - A remake of the classic Atomix game for modern platforms.

• blips (⭐1) - A Remake of the dos Bips, Bips Gold and Bips Platinum game from Bryant Brownell. It is a Puzzle game which is a variation of sokoban written in SDL 3 based on my old gp2x version.

• galaxy-eggbert (⭐0) - 3D remake of Speedy Blupi / Mobile Eggbert, moving from Urho3D toward a native CNA + Easy3D engine.

• guardian (⭐0) - A modern, endless remake of the classic arcade game Defender

• GradiusRemake (⭐0) - Remake of the game Gradius (NES - 1986)

• Maze-Runner-FPS (⭐0) - Remake of classic Maze Runner game from the 70s -- written in Rust

• Metal-Slug-Remake (⭐2) - A Metal Slug-inspired 2D action game built in C++ with SFML — featuring enemy AI, procedural terrain via Perlin noise, and a full weapon/damage system. OOP course project (CS-1004).

• O21 (⭐31) - FOSS remake of U95, an old submarine arcade game from 1995.

• OrbitalDecay (⭐0) - This is a 3D remake of the old Lunar Lander game

• wedges-trial (⭐1) - [WIP] Browser logic puzzle game inspired by Gothic's Remake lockpicking mechanism.

Online

• starcup (⭐6) - A fork of the multiplayer game Space Station 14, a remake of the cult-classic Space Station 13.

• Heart-of-Africa-Remake (⭐1) Single-player 3D web remake of the 1985 classic The Heart of Africa: real ~1890 geography, living wildlife, period journal with in-browser TTS - three.js/WebGPU, React, TypeScript.

Racing

• OutRun (⭐84) - A new version of the game Out Run of 1986 for PC using SFML and C++

Simulator

• darknova2 (⭐0) - Dark Nova ][ — cross-platform space trading game (Space Trader remake)

• pizzalegacy - Pizza Legacy is an open-source reimplementation of the 1994 DOS game Pizza Tycoon (released as Pizza Connection in Germany).

Strategy

• rebellion2 (⭐11) - Remake of the classic Star Wars Rebellion game for PC using Unity

45. Magictools

Graphics / Animation

• 💰 AnimKit - Maya animation toolkit with live tweening, smart keys, motion trails, a pose library and Mixamo retargeting. An affordable animBot alternative.

Graphics / Vector/Image Editor

• 🎉 Sprite Fusion Pixel Art Cleaner - Convert messy AI-generated pixel art into true, pixel-perfect pixel art. Source (⭐2.3k)

AI / Voxel Editors

• 💸 Sprite Fusion AI Pixel Art Generator - AI-powered browser studio for generating, editing, animating, and exporting game-ready pixel art sprites, icons, props, and spritesheets.

46. Awesome Claude Code

Alternative Clients

• Claude Overlay (⭐31) by shengyanlin - A frameless, always-on-top floating chat window for Claude Code on Windows. It captures every monitor and lets Claude read the screen to answer questions in context, and drives the user's existing claude CLI login through the Agent SDK, with image paste, model switching, live streaming, and a context-usage statusline.\       

Creative Media

• Vox director skill (⭐148) by Alisa Qian - Vox Director is an open-source skill that turns a one-line topic into a finished Vox-style paper-collage explainer or ad video. It automates the full pipeline — script, collage keyframes, motion, voice-over, music, and captions — on the Atlas Cloud API plus local ffmpeg, with two human approval gates for the beat map and visual style.\       

47. Awesome Testing

Software / AI & LLM Testing

• QASkills.sh - Open registry of 400+ QA and testing skills (Playwright, API, LLM evaluation, accessibility, performance) that AI coding agents install and follow via the qaskills CLI. Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and 30+ other agents.

• nika (⭐25) - Workflow engine for AI with testing built in: nika test pins a workflow's offline behavior as a golden snapshot (deterministic mock provider, zero keys) and replays it in CI; every run also leaves a hash-chained trace for post-hoc verification.

Software / UI & End-to-End Testing

• Playwright Config Generator - Free browser-based generator that produces a ready-to-commit playwright.config.ts/.js/.mjs with browser projects (Chromium, Firefox, WebKit, mobile devices), retries, workers, trace/video/screenshots, webServer, and CI reporters. No signup.

Software / Test Data Management

• DATAMIMIC CE (⭐37) - Open-source, deterministic engine for model-driven synthetic test data and PII pseudonymization. Pin a seed and get byte-identical output with a provenance hash on every run. Python, MIT.

• JSON Validation Test Cases (⭐0) - Reusable valid, invalid, and edge-case JSON fixtures for testing parsers, validators, APIs, editors, and error handling.

Software / Screen Recording & Session Replays

• PR Preview - MCP for Claude Code that drives your web app in a headed browser and records before/after demo videos of a pull request as MP4 or GIF.

Suggested Awesome Lists / Useful References

• Awesome AI Testing (⭐29) - A curated list of AI-powered testing tools, frameworks, and resources for QA engineers, covering test generation, self-healing automation, MCP-based testing, and LLM-as-judge evaluation.

48. Awesome Go

Artificial Intelligence

• GoModel (⭐995) - AI gateway exposing a unified OpenAI-compatible API across OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Groq, xAI, Ollama and other providers, with routing, usage tracking, rate limits, and guardrails.

• jargo (⭐20) - Framework for building real-time voice AI agents over WebRTC, wiring speech-to-text, LLMs, and text-to-speech into a streaming pipeline.

• semantic-search (⭐0) - Meaning-based search over PDF, Markdown, DOCX, source code, and other file types, using generative AI embedding models to vectorize files into a vector database.

Audio and Music

• go-resample (⭐0) - Pure-Go (no cgo) audio sample-rate converter with sinc, linear, and zero-order-hold converters.

Standard CLI

• OpenCLI (⭐41) - OpenAPI-style specification for CLIs; define your interface in a language-agnostic document to generate documentation and framework boilerplate code.

Database Schema Migration

• db-migrator.go (⭐19) - CLI for versioned database schema migrations with support for PostgreSQL, MySQL, ClickHouse, Tarantool, and Apache Iceberg.