Multimedia

Codecs

See the main article: Codecs.

Image

Image viewers

Framebuffer image viewers

fbi — Image viewer for the linux framebuffer console.

https://www.kraxel.org/blog/linux/fbida/ || fbida

fbv — Very simple graphic file viewer for the framebuffer console.

http://s-tech.elsat.net.pl/fbv/ || fbv

fim — Highly customizable and scriptable framebuffer image viewer based on fbi.

https://www.nongnu.org/fbi-improved/ || fimAUR

jfbview — Framebuffer PDF and image viewer based on Imlib2. Features include Vim-like controls, rotation and zoom, zoom-to-fit, and fast multi-threaded rendering.

https://github.com/jichu4n/jfbview || jfbviewAUR

Graphical image viewers

CoreImage — Simple lightweight easy to use image viewer based on Qt. Part of C-Suite.

https://cubocore.org/ || coreimageAUR

Deepin Image Viewer — Image viewer for Deepin desktop.

https://www.deepin.org/en/original/deepin-image-viewer/ || deepin-image-viewer

Ephoto — A light image viewer based on EFL.

https://www.enlightenment.org/about-ephoto || ephoto

Eye of GNOME — Image viewing and cataloging program, which is a part of the GNOME desktop environment.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/EyeOfGnome || eog

Eye of MATE — Simple graphics viewer for the MATE desktop.

https://github.com/mate-desktop/eom || eom

EyeSight — Image viewer for the Hawaii desktop environment.

https://github.com/hawaii-desktop/eyesight || eyesightAUR

feh — Fast, lightweight image viewer that uses imlib2.

https://github.com/derf/feh https://feh.finalrewind.org || feh

Geeqie — Image browser and viewer (fork of GQview) that adds additional functionality such as support for RAW files.

http://geeqie.org/ || geeqie

GPicView — Simple and fast image viewer for X, which is part of the LXDE desktop.

http://lxde.sourceforge.net/gpicview/ || gpicview

Gwenview — Fast and easy to use image viewer for the KDE desktop.

https://apps.kde.org/gwenview/ || gwenview

ida — X11 application (Motif based) for viewing images. Install the optional dependencies as needed.

https://www.kraxel.org/blog/linux/fbida/ || fbida

image-roll — Simple and fast GTK image viewer with basic image manipulation tools.

https://github.com/weclaw1/image-roll || image-rollAUR

imv — Lightweight image viewer with support for Wayland and animated GIFs which uses FreeImage.

https://sr.ht/~exec64/imv/ || imv

Koko — Image viewer designed for desktop and touch devices.

https://apps.kde.org/koko/ || kokoAUR

KuickShow — Fast and convenient image viewer for KDE.

https://userbase.kde.org/KuickShow || kuickshow

LxImage-Qt — The LXQt image viewer.

https://github.com/lxde/lximage-qt || lximage-qt

meh — meh is a small, simple, super fast image viewer using raw XLib.

https://www.johnhawthorn.com/meh/ || meh-gitAUR

Mirage — PyGTK image viewer featuring support for crop and resize, custom actions and a thumbnail panel.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/mirageiv.berlios/ || mirageAUR

nomacs — Qt image viewer. It is feature-rich but starts fast and can be configured to show additional widgets or only the image.

https://nomacs.org/ || nomacs

nsxiv — Simple image viewer based on imlib2 that works well with tiling window managers. Community fork of sxiv.

https://codeberg.org/nsxiv/nsxiv || nsxivAUR

PhotoQt — Fast and highly configurable image viewer with a simple and nice interface.

https://photoqt.org/ || photoqtAUR

pqiv — GTK 3 based command-line image viewer with a minimal UI supporting images in compressed archives, rewrite of qiv.

https://github.com/phillipberndt/pqiv/ || pqiv

qimgv — Fast and easy to use Qt5 image viewer. Supports webm/mp4 playback via mpv.

https://github.com/easymodo/qimgv/ || qimgvAUR

qeh — Actually fast and simple image viewer. Like feh but faster and simpler, and support for more formats.

https://github.com/sandsmark/qeh/ || qeh-gitAUR

Quick Image Viewer — Very small and fast image viewer based on GTK and imlib2.

http://spiegl.de/qiv/ || qiv

qView — Qt image viewer designed with minimalism and usability in mind.

https://interversehq.com/qview/ || qviewAUR

Ristretto — Fast and lightweight image viewer for the Xfce desktop environment.

https://docs.xfce.org/apps/ristretto/start || ristretto

shufti — shufti non-destructively saves and restores the zoom level, rotation, window size, desktop location and viewing area on a per-image/file location basis

https://github.com/danboid/shufti || shuftiAUR

sxiv — Simple image viewer based on imlib2 that works well with tiling window managers.

https://github.com/muennich/sxiv || sxiv

Viewnior — Minimalistic GTK image viewer featuring support for flipping, rotating, animations and configurable mouse actions.

https://siyanpanayotov.com/project/viewnior || viewnior

Vimiv — An image viewer with vim-like keybindings. It is written in python3 using the Gtk3 toolkit.

https://karlch.github.io/vimiv/ || vimiv

Vimiv (Qt port) — An image viewer with vim-like keybindings. It is written in python3 and PyQt5.

https://karlch.github.io/vimiv-qt/ || vimiv-qtAUR

vpv — Image viewer designed for scientific image visualization.

https://github.com/kidanger/vpv || vpvAUR

Xloadimage — Classic X image viewer.

https://sioseis.ucsd.edu/xloadimage.html || xloadimage

Image organizers

Audio

Audio systems

See also the main article Sound system and Wikipedia:Sound server.

Audio players

Many applications in the #Video players section also support audio playback.

Server

Music Player Daemon — Audio player that has a server-client architecture. In order to interface with it, a separate client is needed.

https://www.musicpd.org/ || mpd

Funkwhale — self-hosted, modern, free and open-source music server, heavily inspired by Grooveshark. Instances can be federated.

https://funkwhale.audio/ || funkwhaleAUR

Sonospy — A music server for Sonos that allows you overcome the 65,000 local track limit and also offers various customization options.

https://github.com/henkelis/sonospy/wiki/Welcome-to-Sonospy || sonospy-gitAUR

Console

cmus — Very feature-rich ncurses-based music player.

https://cmus.github.io/ || cmus

Cplay — Curses front-end for various audio players (ogg123, mpg123, mpg321, splay, madplay, and mikmod, xmp, and sox).

https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Cplay || cplayAUR

davis — A CLI client for mpd, written in Rust.

https://github.com/SimonPersson/davis || davisAUR

Herrie — Minimalistic console-based music player with native AudioScrobbler support.

https://github.com/EdSchouten/herrie || herrieAUR

MOC — Ncurses console audio player with support for the MP3, OGG, and WAV formats.

https://moc.daper.net/ || moc

MPFC — Gstreamer-based audio player with curses interface.

https://code.google.com/archive/p/mpfc/ || mpfcAUR

mpg123 — Fast free MP3 console audio player for Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, HP-UX and nearly all other UNIX systems (also decodes MP1 and MP2 files).

https://www.mpg123.org/ || mpg123

vitunes — Curses-based music player and playlist manager with vim-like keybindings.

http://vitunes.org/ || vitunesAUR

whistle — Curses-based commandline audio player.

https://github.com/ap0calypse/whistle/ || whistle-gitAUR

XMMS2 — Complete rewrite of the popular music player.

https://xmms2.org || xmms2

Graphical

GStreamer-based

Blanket — Improve focus and increase your productivity by listening to different sounds.

https://github.com/rafaelmardojai/blanket || blanket

Byte — Music player designed for elementary OS.

https://github.com/alainm23/byte || byteAUR

Clementine — Amarok 1.4 clone, ported to Qt5. See also Strawberry (below).

https://www.clementine-player.org/ || clementine

Cozy — Modern audio book player for Linux using GTK 3.

https://cozy.geigi.de/ || cozy-audiobooksAUR

Exaile — GTK clone of Amarok.

https://www.exaile.org/ || exaileAUR

GNOME Music — Music is the new GNOME music playing application. It aims to combine an elegant and immersive browsing experience with simple and straightforward controls.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Music || gnome-music

Guayadeque — Full featured media player that can easily manage large collections and uses the GStreamer media framework.

https://www.guayadeque.org/ || guayadequeAUR

Lollypop — A GNOME music player.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Lollypop || lollypop

Melody — Music player for listening to local music files, online radios and audio CD's.

https://anufrij.org/melody/ || playmymusicAUR

Pantheon Music — Simple, fast, and good looking music player. The official elementary music player.

https://github.com/elementary/music || pantheon-music

Parlatype — Minimal audio player for manual speech transcription, for GNOME. It plays audio sources to transcribe them in your favorite text application.

https://www.parlatype.org/ || parlatypeAUR

Pragha — A lightweight two-panel GTK music manager written in C.

https://pragha-music-player.github.io/ || pragha

Quod Libet — Audio player written with GTK, Python and GStreamer with support for regular expressions in playlists.

https://github.com/quodlibet/quodlibet/ || quodlibet

Rhythmbox — GTK clone of iTunes, used by default in GNOME.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Rhythmbox || rhythmbox

Sayonara — Small, clear and fast audio player for Linux written in C++, uses the Qt framework.

https://sayonara-player.com/ || sayonara-playerAUR

Strawberry — Fork of Clementine aimed at audio enthusiasts and music collectors. Uses Qt6.

https://www.strawberrymusicplayer.org/ || strawberry

Tauon Music Box — Modern, comfortable and streamlined music player for the playback of your music collection.

https://tauonmusicbox.rocks/ || tauon-music-boxAUR

Phonon-based

Amarok — Mature Qt-based player known for its plethora of features.

https://amarok.kde.org/ || amarokAUR

JuK — JuK is an audio jukebox application, supporting collections of MP3, Ogg Vorbis, and FLAC audio files.

https://juk.kde.org/ || juk

Yarock — Modern looking music player, packed with features, that doesn’t depend on any specific desktop environment. Yarock is designed to provide an easy and pretty music browser based on cover art.

https://seb-apps.github.io/yarock/ || yarockAUR

Other

Aqualung — Advanced music player, which plays audio CDs, internet radio streams and podcasts as well as soundfiles in just about any audio format and has the feature of inserting no gaps between adjacent tracks.

https://aqualung.jeremyevans.net/ || aqualungAUR

Audacious — Winamp clone like Beep and old XMMS versions.

https://audacious-media-player.org/ || audacious

DeaDBeeF — Light and fast music player with many features, no GNOME or KDE dependencies, supports console-only, as well as a GTK GUI, comes with many plugins, and has a metadata editor.

https://deadbeef.sourceforge.io/ || deadbeefAUR

Deepin Music — Awesome music player with brilliant and tweakful UI Deepin-UI based.

https://www.deepin.org/en/original/deepin-music/ || deepin-music

Drumstick MIDI File Player — MIDI file player based on Drumstick.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/dmidiplayer/ || dmidiplayerAUR

Elisa — Simple music player by the KDE community aiming to provide a nice experience for its users.

https://apps.kde.org/elisa/ || elisa

gmusicbrowser — Open-source jukebox for large collections of MP3/OGG/FLAC files.

https://gmusicbrowser.org/ || gmusicbrowserAUR

Goggles Music Manager — Music collection manager and player that automatically categorizes your music, supports gapless playback, features easy tag editing, and internet radio support. Uses the Fox toolkit.

https://gogglesmm.github.io/ || gogglesmm

LXMusic — A minimalist xmms2-based music player.

https://wiki.lxde.org/en/LXMusic || lxmusic

museeks — Minimalistic and easy to use music player. Based on the Electron platform.

https://museeks.io/ || museeks-binAUR

Musique — Just another music player, only better.

https://flavio.tordini.org/musique || musiqueAUR

Qmmp — Qt-based multimedia player with a user interface that is similar to Winamp or XMMS.

https://qmmp.ylsoftware.com/ || qmmp

Soundux — Soundboard that features a simple user interface.

https://soundux.rocks/ || sounduxAUR

Vvave — Tiny Qt music player to keep your favorite songs at hand.

https://vvave.kde.org/ || vvave

Internet radio listeners

GNOME Radio — Easily find live radio programs based on geographical location of radio broadcasters on the Internet.

http://www.gnomeradio.org/ || gnome-radioAUR

Goodvibes — Lightweight internet radio player.

https://gitlab.com/goodvibes/goodvibes || goodvibesAUR

Radiotray-NG — Internet radio player systray applet.

https://github.com/ebruck/radiotray-ng || radiotray-ngAUR

Shortwave — GTK 3 application for finding and listening to internet radio stations.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Shortwave || shortwaveAUR

Tuner — Minimalist radio station player.

https://github.com/louis77/tuner || tunerAUR

Music streaming clients

Cider — An open source and community oriented Apple Music client for Windows, Linux, macOS, and more. Based on the Electron platform.

https://cider.sh/ || ciderAUR

Google Play Music Desktop Player — Beautiful cross platform desktop player for Google Play Music. Based on the Electron platform.

https://github.com/MarshallOfSound/Google-Play-Music-Desktop-Player-UNOFFICIAL-/ || gpmdpAUR

Headset — Desktop application that turns YouTube into a world class music streaming service. Based on the Electron platform.

https://headsetapp.co/ || headsetAUR

MellowPlayer — A free, open source and cross-platform Qt-based desktop application that runs web-based music streaming services in its own window and provides integration with your desktop.

https://colinduquesnoy.gitlab.io/MellowPlayer/ || mellowplayerAUR

Nuclear — Modern music player focused on streaming from free sources. Based on the Electron platform.

http://nuclear.gumblert.tech/ || nuclear-player-binAUR

pianobar — Console-based frontend for the online radio Pandora.

https://6xq.net/projects/pianobar/ || pianobar

Pithos — Python/GTK Pandora Radio desktop client.

https://pithos.github.io/ || pithosAUR

Spotify — Proprietary music streaming service. It supports local playback and streaming from Spotify's vast library (requires a free account).

https://www.spotify.com/ || spotifyAUR

Audio tag editors

Console

Beets — Music library organizer, tagger and more.

https://beets.io/ || beets

Demlo — Batch music tagger, encoder, renamer and more.

https://gitlab.com/ambrevar/demlo || demloAUR

id3 — Command-line utility to edit ID3 1.x and 2.x tags.

https://squell.github.io/id3/ || id3AUR

id3v2 — Command line editor for id3v2 tags.

http://id3v2.sourceforge.net/ || id3v2

MP3Info — MP3 technical info viewer and ID3 1.x tag editor.

https://ibiblio.org/mp3info/ || mp3info

MP3Unicode — Command line utility to convert ID3 tags in mp3 files between different encodings.

http://mp3unicode.sourceforge.net/ || mp3unicode

Taffy — Simple command-line tag editor for many audio formats.

https://github.com/jangler/taffy || taffyAUR

Tagutil — CLI tool to edit music file's tag. It aims to provide both an easy-to-script interface and ease of use interactively.

https://github.com/kAworu/tagutil || tagutilAUR

Graphical

Audio Tag Tool — Tool to edit tags in MP3 and Ogg Vorbis files.

https://github.com/impegoraro/tagtool || tagtoolAUR

Coquillo — Metadata editor for various audio formats.

https://github.com/sjuvonen/coquillo || coquilloAUR

EasyTag — Utility for viewing, editing and writing ID3 tags of music files, supports many audio formats.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/EasyTAG || easytag

Ex Falso — Cross-platform free and open source audio tag editor and library organizer. Run with exfalso.

https://github.com/quodlibet/quodlibet/ || quodlibet

GabTag — Audio tagging tool written in GTK.

https://github.com/lachhebo/gabtag || gabtagAUR

Kid3 — MP3, Ogg/Vorbis, FLAC, MPC, MP4/AAC, MP2, Speex, TrueAudio, WavPack, WMA, WAV and AIFF files tag editor.

https://kid3.kde.org/ || KDE: kid3, Qt: kid3-qt

KTag Editor — ID3v tag editor developed in Qt5 framework. Supported files are mp3, wav, ogg, wma, flac, asf.

https://karoljkocmaros.blogspot.com/p/ktag-editor.html || ktageditorAUR

MP3Info GUI — MP3 technical info viewer and ID3 1.x tag editor. The graphical interface can be launched with the gmp3info command.

https://ibiblio.org/mp3info/ || mp3info

NickvisionTagger — GTK Music file tag editor. Can load tags from MusicBrainz database. Works with mp3, ogg, flac, wma, and wav. Convert filenames to tags and tags to filenames.

https://github.com/nlogozzo/NickvisionTagger || nickvision-taggerAUR

Picard — Cross-platform audio tag editor written in Python (the official MusicBrainz tagger).

https://picard.musicbrainz.org/ || picard

NTag — Graphical tag editor focused on everyday life use cases.

https://github.com/nrittsti/ntag || ntagAUR

Puddletag — Replacement for the famous MP3tag for Windows.

https://docs.puddletag.net/ || puddletagAUR

Qoobar — Universal Qt-based audio tagger (specialized for classical music).

http://qoobar.sourceforge.net/en/index.htm || qoobarAUR

Tag Editor — A tag editor with Qt GUI and command-line interface supporting MP4/M4A/AAC (iTunes), ID3v1/ID3v2, Vorbis, Opus, FLAC and Matroska.

https://github.com/Martchus/tageditor || tageditorAUR

Thunar Media Tags Plugin — Adds special features for media files to the Thunar File Manager, including the ability to edit tags.

https://goodies.xfce.org/projects/thunar-plugins/thunar-media-tags-plugin || thunar-media-tags-plugin

Lyrics

Lyrics players

Floodlight Presenter — Presentation and lyrics program for churches to display lyrics and media.

https://floodlight.gitlab.io/ || floodlight-presenterAUR

Give Me Lyrics — See the lyrics of the song that is playing, from any application.

https://github.com/muriloventuroso/givemelyrics || givemelyricsAUR

OSD Lyrics — Lyric show compatible with various media players.

https://github.com/osdlyrics/osdlyrics || osdlyrics

Lyrics downloaders

clyrics — Extensible lyrics fetcher, with daemon support for cmus and mocp.

https://github.com/trizen/clyrics || clyricsAUR

glyrc — Command-line music related metadata searchengine, including support for downloading lyrics.

https://github.com/sahib/glyr || glyr

Lyrics editors

Karaoke Lyrics Editor — Lyrics editor and CD+G/video exporter for Karaoke.

https://www.ulduzsoft.com/linux/karaoke-lyrics-editor/ || karlyriceditorAUR

LyricsX — Lyrics editor.

https://github.com/timxx/lyricsx || lyricsxAUR

Audio converters

Caudec — A multiprocess command line audio converter that supports many formats (FLAC, MP3, Ogg Vorbis, Windows codecs and many more)

https://caudec.cocatre.net/ || caudecAUR

Ecasound — Command line tools designed for multitrack audio processing. It can be used for simple tasks like audio playback, recording and format conversions, as well as for multitrack effect processing, mixing, recording and signal recycling.

https://nosignal.fi/ecasound/ || ecasound

FFaudioConverter — Batch audio converter and effects processor. It can convert files or whole folders containing music and video files to other audio formats with FFmpeg.

https://github.com/Bleuzen/FFaudioConverter || ffaudioconverterAUR

Flacon — Extracts individual tracks from one big audio file containing the entire album of music and saves them as separate audio files.

https://flacon.github.io/ || flaconAUR

fre:ac — Audio converter and CD ripper with support for various popular formats and encoders.

https://freac.org/ || freacAUR

Gnac — Audio converter for GNOME.

http://gnac.sourceforge.net/ || gnac

SoundConverter — A graphical application to convert audio files into different formats.

https://soundconverter.org/ || soundconverter

soundKonverter — Qt-based GUI front-end to various audio converters.

https://github.com/dfaust/soundkonverter || soundkonverter

SoX — Command line utility that can convert various formats of computer audio files into other formats.

https://sox.sourceforge.net/ || sox

Audio editors

Audacity — Program that lets you manipulate digital audio waveforms.

https://www.audacityteam.org/ || audacity

GNOME Sound Recorder — The Sound Recorder application enables you to record and play .flac, .ogg (OGG audio, or .oga), and .wav sound files.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/SoundRecorder || gnome-sound-recorder

Gnome Wave Cleaner — Digital audio editor to denoise, dehiss and amplify audio files.

http://gwc.sourceforge.net/ || gwcAUR

Kwave — Sound editor for KDE.

http://kwave.sourceforge.net/ || kwave

mhWaveEdit — Graphical program for editing, playing and recording sound files.

https://github.com/magnush/mhwaveedit/ || mhwaveeditAUR

Mp3splt — Utility to split mp3, ogg vorbis and native FLAC files selecting a begin and an end time position, without decoding.

http://mp3splt.sourceforge.net/ || CLI: mp3splt, GUI: mp3splt-gtk

ocenaudio — Proprietary cross-platform, easy to use, fast and functional audio editor.

https://www.ocenaudio.com/en/ || ocenaudio-binAUR

Play it Slowly — Play back audio files at a different speed or pitch.

https://29a.ch/playitslowly || playitslowly

Polyphone — A soundfont editor to create and edit a musical instrument based on samples, using the sf2 format.

https://www.polyphone-soundfonts.com/ || polyphone

Snd — Advanced sound editor modeled loosely after Emacs.

https://ccrma.stanford.edu/software/snd/ || snd

Swami — A SoundFont editor

http://www.swamiproject.org || swamiAUR

Sweep — Audio editor and live playback tool.

http://www.metadecks.org/software/sweep/ || sweep

WaveSurfer — Tool for sound visualization and manipulation. Typical applications are speech/sound analysis and sound annotation/transcription.

https://www.speech.kth.se/wavesurfer/ || wavesurferAUR

Digital audio workstations

Video

Video players

Console

FFplay — Very simple and portable media player using the FFmpeg libraries and the SDL library. It is mostly used as a testbed for the various FFmpeg APIs.

https://ffmpeg.org/ || ffmpeg

gst-play-1.0 — Simple command line playback testing tool for GStreamer.

https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/ || gst-plugins-base-libs

MPlayer — Video player that supports a complete and versatile array of video and audio formats.

https://mplayerhq.hu/design7/news.html || mplayer

mpv — Movie player based on MPlayer and mplayer2.

https://mpv.io/ || mpv

VLC media player — Command-line version of the famous video player that can play smoothly high definition videos in the TTY. The rc interface can be launched with vlc -I rc, and the ncurses interface can be launched with vlc -I ncurses.

https://www.videolan.org/vlc/ || vlc

Graphical

GStreamer-based

Cinema — Video player and manager for watching local video files.

https://anufrij.org/cinema/ || playmyvideosAUR

Clapper — GNOME media player built using GJS with GTK4 toolkit and powered by GStreamer with OpenGL rendering.

https://rafostar.github.io/clapper/ || clapperAUR

Glide — Simple and minimalistic media player relying on GStreamer for the multimedia support and GTK for the user interface.

https://github.com/philn/glide || glide

GNOME Videos — Media player (audio and video) for the GNOME desktop that uses GStreamer. Part of gnome.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Videos || totem

Identity — Program for comparing multiple versions of an image or video.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/YaLTeR/identity || identityAUR

Movie Monad — Free and simple to use video player made with Haskell using GStreamer and GTK. Precompiled and no Haskell dependency in run-time.

https://lettier.github.io/movie-monad/ || movie-monadAUR

Pantheon Videos — Video player and library designed for elementary OS using GStreamer.

https://github.com/elementary/videos || pantheon-videos

Parole — Modern media player based on the GStreamer framework.

https://docs.xfce.org/apps/parole/start || parole

Rage — Video and audio player written with Enlightenment Foundation Libraries with some extra bells and whistles. Uses GStreamer

https://www.enlightenment.org/about-rage || rage

Snappy — Powerful media player with a minimalistic interface that uses GStreamer.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Snappy || snappy-player

Spivak — Karaoke player based on GStreamer and Qt5.

https://github.com/gyunaev/spivak || spivakAUR

mpv-based

Baka MPlayer — Free and open source, cross-platform, mpv based multimedia player (Qt 5).

https://github.com/u8sand/Baka-MPlayer || baka-mplayer

Bomi — bomi is a graphical user interface(GUI) player based on mpv for Linux.

https://bomi-player.github.io/ || bomi-gitAUR

Celluloid — Simple GTK frontend for mpv, formerly GNOME MPV.

https://celluloid-player.github.io/ || celluloid

Clip — Video player and collection manager utilizing mpv as the backend.

https://mauikit.org/ || maui-clip

Deepin Movie — Movie player for Deepin desktop based on mpv.

https://www.deepin.org/en/original/deepin-movie/ || deepin-movie

Haruna Video Player — Qt/QML video player built on top of mpv.

https://invent.kde.org/multimedia/haruna || haruna

Kawaii-Player — Audio/video manager and multimedia player (based on mpv) with PC-to-PC casting feature, along with functionalities of portable media server and torrent streaming server.

https://github.com/kanishka-linux/kawaii-player || kawaii-playerAUR

Media Player Classic Qute Theater — Clone of Media Player Classic reimplimented in Qt and based on mpv.

https://github.com/mpc-qt/mpc-qt || mpc-qtAUR

Minitube — YouTube desktop application written in C++ using mpv and Qt.

https://flavio.tordini.org/minitube || minitube

MoonPlayer — Video player for playing and downloading online videos from YouTube, Youku etc.

https://github.com/coslyk/moonplayer || moonplayerAUR

mpv — Very basic GUI for mpv. Can be launched with mpv --player-operation-mode=pseudo-gui.

https://mpv.io/ || mpv

mpvz — Qt5/QML based GUI for libmpv. Based on the Tethys theme for Bomi.

https://github.com/Zren/mpvz || mpvz-gitAUR

ImPlay — Cross-Platform Desktop Media Player, built on top of mpv and ImGui.

https://github.com/tsl0922/ImPlay || implayAUR

SMPlayer — Qt multimedia player with extra features (CSS themes, YouTube integration, etc.) based on mpv. It can use MPlayer as alternative backend.

https://www.smplayer.info/ || smplayer

xt7-player-mpv — Qt/Gambas GUI to mpv with a rich set of configurable options including filters and drivers, ladspa plugins support as well as library/playlist management, YouTube, online radios, podcasts, DVB-T and more.

https://github.com/kokoko3k/xt7-player-mpv || xt7-player-mpvAUR

MPlayer-based

GNOME MPlayer — Simple GTK-based GUI for MPlayer.

https://sites.google.com/site/kdekorte2/gnomemplayer || gnome-mplayer

Phonon-based

Dragon Player — Simple video player for KDE based on Phonon. Part of the kde-multimedia group.

https://apps.kde.org/dragonplayer/ || dragon

KMPlayer — Simple Phonon-based video player for KDE and video player plugin for Konqueror. It can use MPlayer as alternative backend.

https://apps.kde.org/kmplayer/ || kmplayerAUR

Other

Electronplayer — An application using the Electron framework. It is used for viewing Netflix, YouTube, Twitch, Floatplane, Hulu, Amazon Prime Video and more. Most notably to isolate the cookies from these websites from your main web browser.

https://github.com/oscartbeaumont/ElectronPlayer/ || electronplayerAUR

FreeTube — Desktop YouTube player built with privacy in mind. Use YouTube without advertisements and prevent Google from tracking you with their cookies and JavaScript. Based on the Electron platform.

https://freetubeapp.io/ || freetube-binAUR

Kaffeine — Very versatile KDE media player that, by default, utilizes VLC as its backend and has excellent support of digital TV (DVB-T, DVB-C, DVB-S).

https://apps.kde.org/kaffeine/ || kaffeine

Kaku — Highly integrated music player supports different online platform like YouTube, SoundCloud, Vimeo and more. Based on the Electron platform.

https://kaku.rocks/ || kaku-binAUR

Kodi — Media player and entertainment hub for digital media.

https://kodi.tv/ || kodi

QMPlay2 — Qt based video player. It can play and stream all formats supported by FFmpeg and libmodplug. It has on integrated module system, which includes a YouTube browser.

https://github.com/zaps166/QMPlay2 || qmplay2AUR

QtAV Player — Simple media player based on QtAV and FFmpeg. Run with Player or QMLPlayer.

https://www.qtav.org/ || qtav

Stremio — Extensible media center.

https://www.stremio.com/ || stremioAUR

tvtime — High quality television application for use with video capture cards.

https://linuxtv.org/ || tvtime

VLC media player — Middleweight video player with support for a wide variety of audio and video formats.

https://www.videolan.org/vlc/ || vlc

xine — Free multimedia player.

https://www.xine-project.org/ || xine-ui

Xjadeo — Video player that displays a video-clip in sync with an external time source (MTC, LTC, JACK-transport).

https://xjadeo.sourceforge.net/ || xjadeo

YUView — Qt-based YUV player with an advanced analytic toolset.

https://github.com/IENT/YUView || yuviewAUR

Video converters

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of video converters and Codecs and containers#Container format tools.

Console

Avidemux CLI — Free video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks.

https://www.avidemux.org/ || avidemux-cli

FFmpeg — Complete, cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video.

https://ffmpeg.org/ || ffmpeg

HandBrake CLI — Simple yet powerful video transcoder ideal for batch mkv/x264 ripping.

https://handbrake.fr/ || handbrake-cli

MEncoder — Free command line video decoding, encoding and filtering tool.

https://mplayerhq.hu/design7/news.html || mencoder

Transcode — Command line tool for video stream processing.

http://www.transcoding.org/ || transcode

Graphical

Ciano — Simple multimedia file converter using FFmpeg and ImageMagick.

https://robertsanseries.github.io/ciano/ || ciano

FFmpegYAG — Advanced GUI for the popular FFmpeg audio/video encoding tool.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/ffmpegyag/ || ffmpegyagAUR

FF Multi Converter — Simple graphical application which enables you to convert audio, video, image and document files between all popular formats, by utilizing other command-line tools.

https://sites.google.com/site/ffmulticonverter/ || ffmulticonverterAUR

HandBrake — Simple yet powerful video transcoder ideal for batch mkv/x264 ripping. GTK version.

https://handbrake.fr/ || handbrake

QWinFF — Qt5 GUI for FFmpeg that can read audio and video files in various formats and convert them into other formats.

https://qwinff.github.io/ || qwinffAUR

Transmageddon — Simple python application for transcoding video into formats supported by GStreamer.

http://www.linuxrising.org/ || transmageddon

WinFF — Graphical video and audio batch converter using FFmpeg.

https://www.biggmatt.com/winff/ || winffAUR

Video editors

Avidemux — Free video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks.

http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/ || avidemux-qt

Blender — Fully integrated 3D graphics creation suite with a built-in non-linear video editor.

https://www.blender.org/ || blender

Cinelerra (Community Version) — Advanced video editing and compositing environment.

http://cinelerra-cv.wikidot.com/ || cinelerra-cvAUR

Cinelerra GG Infinity — Professional video editing and compositing environment.

https://www.cinelerra-gg.org/ || cinelerra-gg-gitAUR

DaVinci Resolve — Proprietary A/V post-production software suite.

https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve/ || davinci-resolveAUR

Flowblade — Multitrack non-linear video editor for Linux, designed to provide a fast, robust editing experience.

https://jliljebl.github.io/flowblade/ || flowblade

Kdenlive — Non-linear video editor designed for basic to semi-professional work.

https://kdenlive.org/ || kdenlive

Lightworks — Professional proprietary non-linear editing system for editing and mastering digital video in various formats.

https://www.lwks.com/ || lightworksAUR

LiVES — Video editor and VJ (live performance) platform.

http://lives-video.com/ || livesAUR

LosslessCut — GUI tool for lossless trimming/cutting of video/audio files. Based on the Electron platform.

https://mifi.no/losslesscut/ || losslesscut-binAUR

Natron — Open-source compositing software. Node-graph based. Similar in functionalities to Adobe After Effects and Nuke by The Foundry.

https://natrongithub.github.io/ || natronAUR

Olive — Non-linear video editor aiming to provide a fully-featured alternative to high-end professional video editing software.

https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/ || oliveAUR

OpenShot — Non-linear video editor based on MLT framework.

https://www.openshot.org/ || openshot

Pitivi — Video editor designed to be intuitive and integrate well in the GNOME desktop.

https://www.pitivi.org/ || pitivi

Shotcut — Shotcut is a free, open source, cross-platform video editor.

https://www.shotcut.org/ || shotcut

V2Mixer — free cross-platform movie editor,mixer

http://v2mixer.livev2.com/ || v2mixer-binAUR

VapourSynth Editor — Editor for VapourSynth scripts.

https://bitbucket.org/mystery_keeper/vapoursynth-editor || vapoursynth-editorAUR

VidCutter — Fast lossless media cutter + joiner w/ frame-accurate SmartCut options powered by mpv, FFmpeg via a sleek Qt5 GUI.

https://vidcutter.ozmartians.com/ || vidcutter

Video Trimmer — Cut out a fragment of a video given the start and end timestamps. The video is never re-encoded, so the process is very fast and does not reduce the video quality.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/YaLTeR/video-trimmer || video-trimmerAUR

Subtitles

Subtitle players

Penguin Subtitle Player — Standalone subtitle player that provides a translucent window which always stays on the top so subtitles can be shown on top of the video without blocking anything.

https://github.com/carsonip/Penguin-Subtitle-Player || penguin-subtitle-player

SubtitlesPrinter — Print subtitles above a X-screen, independently of the video player.

https://github.com/OlivierMarty/SubtitlesPrinter || subtitles-printer-gitAUR

Subtitle downloaders

QNapi — Qt client for downloading movie subtitles from NapiProjekt, OpenSubtitles, Napisy24.

https://qnapi.github.io/ || qnapi

subdl — Command-line tool for downloading subtitles from opensubtitles.org.

https://github.com/akexakex/subdl || subdl

SubDownloader — Automatic download/upload of subtitles using fast hashing.

https://github.com/subdownloader/subdownloader || subdownloader

Subtitle editors

Aegisub — Subtitle editor.

https://github.com/Aegisub/Aegisub || aegisub

Gaupol — Full-featured subtitle editor.

https://otsaloma.io/gaupol/ || gaupol

Gnome Subtitles — Video subtitle editor for GNOME.

http://www.gnomesubtitles.org/ || gnome-subtitles

Jubler — Open-source multiplatform subtitle editor written in Java.

https://www.jubler.org/ || jublerAUR

Subtitle Composer — Subtitle editor for KDE supporting various formats, features different player backends, able to display wave form.

https://subtitlecomposer.kde.org/ || subtitlecomposerAUR

Subtitle Edit — Subtitle editing program. Written in C# using mono.

https://github.com/SubtitleEdit/subtitleedit || subtitleeditAUR

Subtitle Editor — GTK 3 tool to edit subtitles for GNU/Linux/*BSD.

https://kitone.github.io/subtitleeditor/ || subtitleeditor

Screencast

See Screen capture#Screencast software.

Miracast

Miracast is a standard for wireless connections from sending devices to display receivers mainly using Wi-Fi Direct. Use iw dev to check your hardware support.

GNOME Network Displays — GTK application to cast your desktop to a remote display. Not specific to the GNOME environment, depends on PipeWire.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-network-displays || gnome-network-displaysAUR

MiracleCast — Command line tools to connect external monitors to your system via Wi-Fi Display specification also known as Miracast.

https://github.com/albfan/miraclecast || miraclecast-gitAUR

Webcam

See also FFmpeg#Recording webcam and Wikipedia:Comparison of webcam software.

Cheese — Take photos and videos with your webcam, with fun graphical effects.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Cheese || cheese

Deepin Camera — Tool to view camera, take photo and video.

https://github.com/linuxdeepin/deepin-camera || deepin-camera

fswebcam — Small and simple command line webcam software that generates images for a webcam.

https://www.sanslogic.co.uk/fswebcam/ || fswebcamAUR

Guvcview — Simple interface for capturing and viewing video from v4l2 devices.

https://guvcview.sourceforge.net/ || GTK: guvcview, Qt: guvcview-qt

cameractrls — Command line and graphical application for configuring v4l2 devices.

https://github.com/soyersoyer/cameractrls || cameractrls

Kamoso — Webcam recorder from KDE community.

https://apps.kde.org/kamoso/ || kamoso

MJPG-streamer — Command line application which can be used to stream M-JPEG over an IP-based network from a webcam to various types of viewers.

https://github.com/jacksonliam/mjpg-streamer || mjpg-streamer-gitAUR

Motion — Highly configurable program that monitors video signals from many types of cameras. It is able to detect if a significant part of the picture has changed; in other words, it can detect motion.

https://motion-project.github.io/ || motion

Pantheon Camera — Camera application designed for elementary OS.

https://github.com/elementary/camera || pantheon-camera

QtCAM — Webcam software with more than 10 image control settings, extension settings and color space switching.

https://www.e-consystems.com/opensource-linux-webcam-software-application.asp || qtcam-gitAUR

v4l2loopback — Kernel module that allows to create virtual video (v4l2) devices. This can be used to create virtual webcams with video passed by programs like FFmpeg.

https://github.com/umlaeute/v4l2loopback || v4l2loopback-dkms

v4l2ucp — Universal control panel for V4L2 devices.

http://v4l2ucp.sourceforge.net/ || v4l2ucpAUR

v4l-utils — Provides a series of utilities for media devices.

https://linuxtv.org/ || v4l-utils

Webcamoid — Full featured webcam suite.

https://webcamoid.github.io/ || webcamoidAUR

Bombono DVD — DVD authoring program with nice and clean GUI.

https://bombono.com/ || bombono-dvdAUR

Devede — Program to create VideoDVDs and CDs.

https://rastersoft.com/programas/devede.html || devede

DVDStyler — DVD authoring application for the creation of professional-looking DVDs.

https://www.dvdstyler.org/ || dvdstyler

DVD ripping

See Optical disc drive#DVD-Video.

Video thumbnails

vcsi — Create video contact sheets. A video contact sheet is an image composed of video capture thumbnails arranged on a grid.

https://github.com/amietn/vcsi || vcsiAUR

Video Contact Sheet — Bash script meant to create video contact sheets (previews) of videos. Any video supported by mplayer and ffmpeg can be used.

https://p.outlyer.net/vcs || video-contact-sheetAUR

Collection managers

Data Crow — Media cataloger and media organizer.

https://datacrow.net/ || datacrowAUR

GCstar — GNOME application for organizing various collections (board games, comic books, movies, stamps, etc.).

http://www.gcstar.org/ || gcstarAUR

Griffith — Movie collection manager application.

https://gitlab.com/Strit/griffith || griffith

MediaElch — Media manager for Kodi. Information about movies, TV shows, concerts and music are stored as nfo files.

https://www.kvibes.de/mediaelch/ || mediaelch

Tellico — KDE application for organizing various collections (books, video, music, coins, etc.).

https://tellico-project.org/ || tellico

tinyMediaManager — Media management tool to provide metadata for Kodi.

https://www.tinymediamanager.org/ || tiny-media-managerAUR

vMovieDB — Movie collection manager for the Gnome desktop.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/vmoviedb/ || vmoviedbAUR

Media servers

Airsonic — Web-based media streamer, providing ubiquitous access to your music. (Fork of Subsonic.)

https://airsonic.github.io/ || airsonicAUR

Emby — Proprietary media server, which automatically converts and streams your media on-the-fly to play on any device.

https://emby.media/ || emby-server

OwnTone — DAAP (iTunes) and MPD media server with support for AirPlay devices, Apple Remote, Chromecast, Spotify and internet radio.

https://owntone.github.io/owntone-server/ || owntone-serverAUR

Gerbera — UPnP Media Server to stream your media to devices on your home network. (Fork of MediaTomb.)

https://gerbera.io/ || gerbera

Icecast — Streaming media (audio/video) server which currently supports Ogg (Vorbis and Theora), Opus, WebM and MP3 streams.

https://icecast.org/ || icecast

Jellyfin — Media system that puts you in control of managing and streaming your media.

https://jellyfin.org/ || Server: jellyfinAUR, desktop client: jellyfin-media-playerAUR, cast client: jellyfin-mpv-shimAUR

Plex — Proprietary media server, which organizes your personal video, music, and photo collections and streams them to all of your devices.

https://www.plex.tv/ || plex-media-serverAUR

ReadyMedia — Simple media server software, with the aim of being fully compliant with DLNA/UPnP-AV clients.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/minidlna/ || minidlna

Rygel — UPnP AV MediaServer and MediaRenderer that allows you to easily share audio, video and pictures, and control of media player on your home network.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Rygel || rygel

Serviio — Proprietary media server, which allows you to stream your media files (music, video or images) to renderer devices (e.g. a TV set, Bluray player, games console or mobile phone) on your connected home network.

https://serviio.org/ || serviioAUR

Subsonic — Proprietary media server to stream from your own computer.

http://www.subsonic.org/ || subsonicAUR

Tvheadend — TV streaming server and recorder supporting DVB-S, DVB-S2, DVB-C, DVB-T, ATSC, ISDB-T, IPTV, SAT>IP and HDHomeRun as input sources.

https://tvheadend.org/ || tvheadendAUR

Universal Media Server — UPnP media server, which is capable of sharing video, audio and images between most modern devices. (Fork of PS3 Media Server.)

https://www.universalmediaserver.com/ || umsAUR

Metadata

CoreInfo — Simple media metadata viewer built on mediainfo library. Part of C-Suite.

https://cubocore.org/ || coreinfoAUR

DV Analyzer — Technical quality control and reporting tool that examines DV streams in order to report errors.

https://mediaarea.net/DVAnalyzer || CLI: dvanalyzerAUR, GUI: dvanalyzer-guiAUR

ExifTool — Command-line application for reading, writing and editing meta information in a wide variety of files.

https://sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/ || perl-image-exiftool

ExifCleaner — Desktop app to clean metadata from images, videos, PDFs, and other files.

https://exifcleaner.com || exifcleaner-binAUR

Exiv2 — Command line utility to manage image metadata. It provides fast and easy read and write access to the Exif, IPTC and XMP metadata and the ICC Profile embedded within digital images in various formats.

https://exiv2.org/ || exiv2

ffprobe — Gather information from multimedia streams and print it in human- and machine-readable fashion.

https://ffmpeg.org/ffprobe.html || ffmpeg

jExifToolGUI — Java/Swing graphical frontend for ExifTool, which reads and writes all kind of metadata tags from/to image files.

https://hvdwolf.github.io/jExifToolGUI/ || jexiftoolguiAUR

jhead — Exif jpeg header manipulation tool.

https://sentex.net/~mwandel/jhead/ || jhead

mat2 — Metadata removal tool, supporting a wide range of commonly used file formats.

https://0xacab.org/jvoisin/mat2 || mat2

MediaConch — Implementation checker, policy checker, reporter, and fixer.

https://mediaarea.net/MediaConch || CLI: mediaconchAUR, GUI: mediaconch-guiAUR

MediaInfo — Convenient unified display of the most relevant technical and tag data for video and audio files.

https://mediaarea.net/en/MediaInfo || CLI: mediainfo, GUI: mediainfo-gui

sndfile-info — Obtaining information about the contents of an audio file.

http://mega-nerd.com/libsndfile/ || libsndfile

Mobile device managers

Android 2 Linux Notifications — Display your Android phone notifications on your desktop using a LAN connection.

https://www.patri9ck.dev/a2ln/ || a2lnAUR

Android File Transfer — Interactive Media Transfer Protocol client with Qt5 GUI.

https://whoozle.github.io/android-file-transfer-linux/ || android-file-transfer

gMTP — Simple MP3 and media player client for Media Transfer Protocol.

https://gmtp.sourceforge.io/ || gmtp

gnokii — Tools and user space driver for use with mobile phones.

https://www.gnokii.org/ || gnokiiAUR

GNOME Phone Manager — Control your mobile phone from your GNOME desktop.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Attic/PhoneManager || gnome-phone-managerAUR

gtkpod — GUI for Apple's iPod using GTK. It allows you to import your existing iTunes database, add songs, podcasts, videos and cover art, and to edit ID3 tags.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/gtkpod/ || gtkpodAUR