General Tools

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General Tools brings together 514 curated resources from across the video technology landscape. Notable topics include API Libraries & SDKs, Build Scripts & Automation, Case Studies & Best Practices in DRM, and Command-line Utilities & Wrappers.

Resources (showing 73–96 of 514)

• BrightWebSocketRFC 6455 WebSocket Library for the Roku.
• Bunny Stream API ReferenceComplete REST reference for Bunny Stream: per-library AccessKey auth, video create/upload, fetch-from-URL and collection management endpoin…
• Eyevinn Channel Engine — API referenceDeveloper reference for the VOD2Live Channel Engine library covering asset managers, channel managers and stream switching hooks.
• Hybrik API ReferenceAPI reference documentation for Hybrik, a cloud-based media processing platform that provides endpoints for managing video encoding, transc…
• Mediabunny — JavaScript Media ToolkitZero-dependency TypeScript library for reading, writing and converting video/audio in the browser: per-container muxers/demuxers plus high-…
• Membrane FrameworkElixir multimedia processing framework (GStreamer-inspired architecture) wrapping FFmpeg/GStreamer elements for RTSP/RTMP/HLS/WebRTC pipeli…
• XML + Code + Good times = RSG ApplicationWritten by John Zolezzi - April 6th 2018.
• api.stream-sdkClient SDKs for API.stream cloud video workflow service supporting composable layouts and source/destination integration.
• api.video — Encoding and Transcoding DocumentationDeveloper docs explaining api.video's encoding/transcoding pipeline, codec and compression tradeoffs, and how output renditions are produce…
• cloudflare-stream-uploaderNode.js chunked uploader for Cloudflare Stream via flow.js proxy, avoiding manual storage/encoding handling.
• datarhei Core API — FFmpeg process orchestrationREST/JSON API documentation for datarhei Core, which supervises long-running FFmpeg processes with resource limits, acting as a transcode o…
• ffmpeg-sidecar — Rust Wrapper Around the FFmpeg CLIRust crate that drives FFmpeg as a child process (no linking), auto-downloads binaries, exposes a builder API and parses progress, metadata…
• ffmpeg-the-third — maintained Rust FFmpeg bindingsActively maintained fork of ffmpeg-next providing safe Rust bindings for FFmpeg 5.1 through 8.x.
• go-libav — cgo FFmpeg bindings for GoGo cgo bindings targeting FFmpeg 6.1+, an alternative to go-astiav with notes on CGO call overhead.
• laravel-cloudflare-streamLaravel/PHP wrapper for the Cloudflare Stream API.
• mux-ruby (unofficial)Unofficial Ruby client for the Mux API, predating the official SDK.
• python-cloudflare-streamCommunity Python wrapper for the Cloudflare Stream API.
• re_mp4 — Rust MP4 Container Parser for Web Video PlayersRerun's maintained fork of the mp4 crate, parse-only, designed to feed WebCodecs-based video players written in Rust/WASM.
• rsmpeg — Safe Rust Bindings to the Full FFmpeg APIThin safe layer over the complete FFmpeg C API (built on rusty_ffmpeg) with FFmpeg 8.0 support and system/vcpkg linking options.
• rust-ac-ffmpegSafe minimal Rust bindings to libav with no bindgen dependency, supporting FFmpeg 4–7.
• rusty_ffmpeg — raw FFmpeg FFI bindings for RustAuto-generated low-level Rust FFI bindings to FFmpeg libraries, tracking recent FFmpeg releases with build-time linking helpers.
• stainless-ffmpegRust FFmpeg wrapper for building and running media processing graphs efficiently.
• va-ts — Rust MPEG-TS muxer/demuxerRust library for muxing and demuxing MPEG transport streams, useful for broadcast and HLS segment tooling.
• video-rs — high-level Rust video encode/decodeErgonomic Rust library layered on ffmpeg-next for reading, writing, encoding, decoding and muxing video with ndarray frame interop.