Open Source Sound/Audio Software

Matroska is an open standard audio/video container format. Visit our homepage at http://www.matroska.org

projectM is an OpenGL based advanced music visualization program for Linux, Mac OSX, and Windows. It is backward compatible with all the features of Milkdrop 1.x (and now 2.x), but has many new toys and enhancements.

The Pure Data (short Pd) project on SourceForge unifies the extensions (or externals) written for the Pure Data Graphical Computer Music System written by Miller Puckette with contributions from many others.

"ISO Unix Linux OS Distribution This distribution comes with all the optimizations, customizations, and exclusive configurations already in place, allowing you to use it right out of the box. You'll have everything you need to work immediately, without complicated setups, and with the best professional software already installed and optimized. It's built for a complete desktop experience, ideal for professionals and advanced enthusiasts such as musicians, graphic designers, and video makers. You won't have to search for or configure anything; all the best tools available are already present and ready for you to start producing."

This program transforms the sound or the image using a single large FFT window and allows to do many interesting and strange effects to sounds and images. There is included another program who does extreme-time-stretch of the audio.

Shutter Encoder is an video, audio and image converter based on FFmpeg and other great tools. It has been designed by video editors in order to be as accessible and efficient as possible. It's a swiss knife tool for any video editor. Link to website & downloads : https://www.shutterencoder.com - Without conversion: Cut without re-encoding, Replace audio, Rewrap, Conform, Merge, Extract, Subtitling, Video inserts - Sound conversions: WAV, AIFF, FLAC, ALAC, MP3, AAC, AC3, OPUS, OGG - Editing codecs: DNxHD, DNxHR, Apple ProRes, QT Animation, GoPro CineForm, Uncompressed YUV - Output codecs: H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, AV1, OGV - Broadcast codecs: XDCAM HD422, AVC-Intra 100, XAVC, HAP - Old codecs: DV PAL, MJPEG, Xvid, WMV, MPEG - Archiving codec: FFV1 - Images creation: JPEG, Image - Burn & Rip: DVD, Blu-ray, DVD RIP - Analysis: Loudness & True Peak, Audio normalization, Cut detection, Black detection, Media, VMAF - Download: Web video

This project is now located at http://xiph.org/quicktime/ Xiph QuickTime Components (XiphQT) is, in short, the solution for Mac and Windows users who want to use Xiph formats in any QuickTime-based application, e.g. playing Ogg Vorbis in iTunes or produc

The Open Toolkit is an advanced, cross-platform, C# OpenGL, OpenAL and OpenCL wrapper for Mono/.Net. It is especially suitable to RAD development and can be used in games, GUIs (WinForms, WPF, GTK#) and scientific applications. The official repository can be found in github: https://github.com/opentk/opentk The sourceforge repository will no longer be updated, but will remain online for posterity.

Krut Computer Recorder is a screencast tool to record audio and video from your computer screen into .mov-files and .wav-files. It can be used to e.g. make video tutorials or record games. It could also be used to record streaming video and audio.

PLIB is a set of libraries that are designed to help developers of interactive 3D applications such as games. All PLIB libraries are portable to just about every modern Operating System. PLIB includes OpenGL GUI and scene graph, portable audio, portable

Volocian believes first and foremost that financial status shouldn’t be a barrier to entry in multimedia content creation. Whether you want to design a product or website, record a band, remix a song, or produce a feature length movie with professional post production graphics and effects, Volocian™ wants to help, even if you’re using borrowed hardware with no previous experience. We provide affordable products and services for any budget, including cost-free solutions for education and demo purposes, while everything we do is designed with ease of use and flexibility in mind, to suit everyone from novice hobbyists to expert professionals. Wherever possible, Volocian™ relies on free, open source, and cross-platform software to prevent vendor lock-in, planned obsolescence, and software as a service licensing. While we remain pragmatic about the use of proprietary software, as we’re aware of the feature limitations of some open source solutions, free solutions are preferred.

The GUIDOLib provides a powerful engine for the graphic rendering of music scores, based on the Guido Music Notation format. It supports Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, Android and iOS operating systems. A Java JNI interface is available as well as a Javascript version of the library. A Web API has also been designed, allowing to deploy the engine as a Web service.

XBMC Skinning Project is a side-project for hosting open source skins and skinning tools for XBMC Media Center. Any skin author/developer may apply to join to get write access to this projects CVS/SVN/GIT, tracking tools, file publishing, and more.

JavaHMO is a media server for the Home Media Option (HMO) from TiVoŽ implemented in the Java programming language.

Remember when you wrote your games in Pascal? Well continue that fine tradition by using JEDI-SDL! Which works with Delphi, Kylix, Free Pascal, Gnu Pascal and TMT Pascal. Cross-platform game develpment has never been easier!

A Java Utility to edit and create new game content for Might and Magic 8 with support for 6 and 7. This is an extension of the no-longer-developed UnLod java utility for MM8. MM8LevelEditor is no longer actively developed. A new MMLevelEditor is being re

A C and C++ Library + a compiler to create Adobe Flash SWF movies up to version 9 (v1.8.1). Supports nearly all the tags, includes an ActionScript compiler. Detailed docs and other tools: convert fonts to Flash, decompile Flash, jpg2swf. LASTEST IS 1.8.4

The program MinDia can be used to create, modify and run multimedia slide shows with a diaprojector Rolleivision 35 Twin digital P (with RS232 interface).

Animix brings a storyboard to life by combining and synchronising storyboard frames with a soundtrack, allowing an artist or animator to quickly create, and present an Animatic over the web.

GEM (Graphics Environment for Multimedia) is a library to be used with Miller Puckette's Max-like realtime-computermusic-software "Pure Data" (Pd), which allows to draw and control openGL- and pixel-graphics (like video) in realtime from within Pd.

JMusicxml is a music application base on Recordare MusicXML, on kind of open musical data format. It provided midi parser and staff parser api. besides, some java awt/swing graphics player, Staff brower for viewing provided too.

Orchid Studio is a beautiful full multimedia operating system that can edit sound, video, and photographs on a 10 year old laptop with just 4GB of memory. Although designed for 10 year old and newer 64-bit computers that are unable to upgrade to windows 11, it excels on newer systems. It works great on multi-monitor and ultra wide screen monitor setups. Orchid Studio can be run live from a USB drive, however is intended to be installed on a solid state drive or hard drive. Orchid Studio is designed as a single user setup where the “admin” user does not require passwords for updates, installing software, and performing most administrative tasks. Other users will require passwords to be used for these functions. Passwords: root and admin initial passwords are “admin”, if you are security conscious you should change them.

Synthclipse is a GLSL shader prototyping tool. It makes possible to fast develop all kinds of shaders: Fragment (FS), Vertex (VS), Geometry (GS), Tessellation (TS) and Compute (CS). Shader development can be done using, compatible with Fragmentarium and Shadertoy (but limited to FS and VS), Fragx shaders or by using fully featured JavaScript JSX scripts. The JSX API is consistent with WebGL but in fact exposes complete OpenGL 4+ API. To install Synthclipse one can download prepacked Eclipse with Synthclipse feature (see "Files" section above) or update an existing Eclipse using the following Update Site: https://kamil-kolaczynski.github.io/synthclipse/update/ Prepacked version has one advantage: it has nice console logs coloring since it shipped with Grep Console plugin ( https://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/grep-console ) that is configured specially for Synthclipse logs.

This is an adaptation of the software used by chdh for the performance egregore in 2011-2013. It is based on five different audiovisual instruments made of chaotic and physical modeling algorithms that you can directly control. They have been remotely controlled live by chdh the 27th may 2015. You can play, adapt, and use this audiovisual instrument for yourself. It is based on physical modeling and chaotic algorithms entirely build in the Pure Data software.

Simple general-purpose metadata extraction API with support for popular multimedia metadata formats such as EXIF and ID3.