Simple DirectMedia Layer. [zlib]

SDL alternatives and similar libraries

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• mpv

  9.6 9.4 L3 SDL VS mpv

  Video player based on MPlayer/mplayer2

• SFML

  9.1 6.5 L1 SDL VS SFML

  Simple and Fast Multimedia Library. [zlib]

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• QtAv

  8.4 2.7 L1 SDL VS QtAv

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

• GStreamer

  6.2 0.0 L2 SDL VS GStreamer

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

• MediaInfoLib

  4.2 0.0 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

  3.4 6.0 L1 SDL VS AvCpp

  C++ wrapper for FFmpeg

• CatraMMS

  1.5 7.2 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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