Free software projects

Here is a list of features projects, which are important for Free Sofware development of video applications. Some projects provide engines, libraries and codecs used by Kdenlive. Other projects are a central places for software development and communities. We are grateful to 20 years of hard work ...

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Dirac Video http://www.diracvideo.org Dirac is an advanced royalty-free video compression format designed for a wide range of uses, from delivering low-resolution web content to broadcasting HD and beyond, to near-lossless studio editing.	Dvgrab http://www.kinodv.org Dvgrab is a firewire toolkit used by Kdenlive to grab video from camcorders. It is compatible with DV and HDV comcorders and and is very well maintained.
Linux Audio http://www.linuxaudio.org Linuxaudio.org is a not-for-profit consortium of libre software projects and artists, companies, institutions, organizations, and hardware vendors using Linux kernel-based systems	Linux Audio Developer's Simple Plugin API (LADSPA) http://www.ladspa.org LADSPA is a standard that allows software audio processors and effects to be plugged into a wide range of audio synthesis and recording packages.
SoX, the Swiss Army knife of sound processing http://sox.sourceforge.net SoX is a cross-platform (Linux, MacOS X, etc.) command line utility that can convert various formats of computer audio files in to other formats.	Synfig Studio http://www.synfig.org Free software/open source tool for producing feature-film quality animation with fewer people and resources. A good way to make short animations for Kdenlive.
Video4Linux http://www.linuxtv.org The LinuxTV project develops and maintains the video acquisition drivers for GNU/Linux, including television and satellite cards and various sources of video.