Simple DirectMedia Layer. [zlib]

SDL alternatives and similar libraries

Based on the "Multimedia" category

• mpv

  9.5 9.4 L3 SDL VS mpv

  Video player based on MPlayer/mplayer2

• SFML

  9.0 5.8 L1 SDL VS SFML

  Simple and Fast Multimedia Library. [zlib]

• QtAv

  8.2 5.4 L1 SDL VS QtAv

  A multimedia playback framework based on Qt and FFmpeg to write a player easily. [LGPL] website

• GStreamer

  5.7 9.1 L2 SDL VS GStreamer

  A library for constructing graphs of media-handling components. [LGPL]

• MediaInfoLib

  3.7 8.4 SDL VS MediaInfoLib

  Convenient unified display of the most relevant technical and tag data for video and audio files. [BSD]

• libVLC

  3.6 - SDL VS libVLC

  libVLC (VLC SDK) media framework. [GPL]

• AvCpp

  3.0 6.8 L1 SDL VS AvCpp

  C++ wrapper for FFmpeg

• CatraMMS

  1.3 9.4 SDL VS CatraMMS

  Media Management System

• LIVE555 Streaming Media

  - - SDL VS LIVE555 Streaming Media

  Multimedia streaming library using open standard protocols (RTP/RTCP, RTSP, SIP). [LGPL]

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