General Tools

Discover 515 curated general-purpose video development tools and utilities for building, testing, and shipping video applications on Awesome Video.

Subcategories

• API Libraries & SDKs 25 resources
• Build Scripts & Automation 33 resources
• Case Studies & Best Practices in DRM 33 resources
• Command-line Utilities & Wrappers 21 resources
• Community & Collaboration Platforms 19 resources
• Cross-Platform Media Tools 23 resources
• DRM 14 resources
• DRM Solutions & Implementations 16 resources
• DRM Testing & Validation Tools 34 resources
• Docker & Containerization Tools 17 resources
• Encryption Tools for Streaming 16 resources
• FFMPEG & Tools 16 resources
• Independent & Hobbyist Projects 30 resources
• Logging & Debugging Tools 19 resources
• Performance & Monitoring Tools 20 resources
• Research Projects & Academic Resources 29 resources
• Specialized Utility Scripts 14 resources
• Test Content & Sample Streams 46 resources
• Widevine FairPlay PlayReady Integrations 18 resources

Resources (showing 433–456 of 515)

• WaterlooSQoE-IV DatabaseLargest subject-rated ABR QoE database with 1350 videos across diverse encoders, network traces, ABR algorithms, and devices.
• YTLive DatasetDataset of 507k+ records from 12,156 real YouTube live streams via YouTube Researcher Program, tracking viewer counts and durations.
• YTLive: A Dataset of Real-World YouTube Live Streaming SessionsAcademic dataset paper capturing real-world YouTube live streaming session traces for research use.
• live-streaming-ingest-advanced-simulationnetem-based simulator injecting packet loss/delay/reorder/dup on RTMP/SRT/UDP/TS+FEC live ingest, measures and visualizes effects.
• 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.
• Binary to base64: Convert between bytes and base64 — CryptiiBase64 encoding schemes are used when binary data needs to be stored or transferred as textual data. Therefore 64 characters are chosen tha…
• CBC ST 2110 ToolkitBroadcaster-built toolkit for ST 2110 environments: PTP setup, DPDK capture, transcoding, EBU LIST and NMOS installation roles.
• Content ManagerThe Content Manager is a visual production tool which generates on-the-fly visualisations for DAB slideshow and RadioVIS. Based on the .NET…
• Extract I-frames from video using ffmpegffmpeg script gist for extracting only I-frames from video as images.
• 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.
• Springer Free BooksPython script to download all Springer books released for free during the 2020 COVID-19 quarantine
• desilenceLecture-recording silence remover with JSON configuration presets, built on ffmpeg.
• ffmpeg-generate-video-previewCLI tool generating GIF or image-strip video previews with configurable width, quality, and frame count.
• jwplayer-thumbnail-preview-generatorSmall PHP CLI generating sprite sheets and VTT files for JW Player scrub-bar thumbnail previews.
• pyvideothumbnailerCLI tool generating video preview thumbnail sheets with directory/recursive support, built on PyAV, MediaInfo, and Pillow.
• rmp-create-vtt-thumbnailsNode script generating VTT files and thumbnail mosaics for the Radiant Media Player preview-thumbnails feature.
• silencecut-ffmpegNode/TypeScript CLI using ffmpeg's silencedetect and silenceremove filters to automatically cut silence from video/audio.
• tcCoca — SMPTE/EBU Timecode CalculatorSmall C CLI tool converting/calculating SMPTE/EBU timecodes, supporting drop/non-drop frame and 14 framerates.
• video-thumbnail-spritePHP library generating thumbnail sprite sheets and VTT files from video using ffmpeg/ffmpegthumbnailer and ImageMagick, for JWPlayer-style…
• 100-4K (BVI-1004K) Test Sequence Dataset100 open UHD test sequences aggregated from Netflix Chimera, UVG, SJTU, and AWS sources, cropped/normalized for ML video-coding research.
• 240pTestSuite_HCFR — Display Test Patterns240p Test Suite HCFR patterns for geometry, luminance, gamma, latency, and display calibration.
• AOMedia AV1 test dataAOMedia's public AV1 conformance test-data bucket of reference bitstreams for decoder validation.
• AVT-VQDB-UHD-1TU Ilmenau large-scale UHD-1 (4K) video quality database (~55GB) with included download tooling.
• Argon Streams AV1 — Decoder Conformance Suite (VideoLAN Mirror)No-login mirror of Graphcore's open-sourced AV1 conformance suite: 2763 bitstreams with MD5 digests, runnable via dav1d's dav1d_argon.bash.