Command line media

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Open source command line media tools -- this page is by no means complete.

Audio-Video tools

• ffmpeg
• mplayer
• vlc
• sox (audio tools)
• ImageMagick (image processing)
• transcode

Frameworks / Libraries

Frameworks (and libraries) are generally speaking functionality that is made to be used from code (so like plugins to a programming language). Many frameworks also come with command-line tools (often for testing the framework) which can be quite useful even without getting too deep into coding.

• gstreamer
• mlt
• oggz tools (part of liboggz)

Other

• exiftool Reading and writing file metadata (and more than just the "exif" standard)