SFML Alternatives - C++ Multimedia

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Code Quality Rank: L1

Programming language: C++

License: GNU General Public License v3.0 or later

Tags: Multimedia

Latest version: v2.5.1

SFML alternatives and similar libraries

Based on the "Multimedia" category.
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mpv

9.6 9.4 L3 SFML VS mpv

Video player based on MPlayer/mplayer2
QtAv

8.4 2.7 L1 SFML VS QtAv

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

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GStreamer

6.2 0.0 L2 SFML VS GStreamer

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

5.4 9.7 L3 SFML VS SDL

Simple DirectMedia Layer. [zlib]
MediaInfoLib

4.2 0.0 SFML VS MediaInfoLib

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

3.6 - SFML VS libVLC

libVLC (VLC SDK) media framework. [GPL]
AvCpp

3.4 6.0 L1 SFML VS AvCpp

C++ wrapper for FFmpeg
CatraMMS

1.5 7.2 SFML VS CatraMMS

Media Management System
LIVE555 Streaming Media

- SFML VS LIVE555 Streaming Media

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

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README

SFML — Simple and Fast Multimedia Library

SFML is a simple, fast, cross-platform and object-oriented multimedia API. It provides access to windowing, graphics, audio and network. It is written in C++, and has bindings for various languages such as C, .Net, Ruby, Python.

Authors

Laurent Gomila — main developer ([email protected])
Marco Antognini — OS X developer ([email protected])
Jonathan De Wachter — Android developer ([email protected])
Jan Haller ([email protected])
Stefan Schindler ([email protected])
Lukas Dürrenberger ([email protected])
binary1248 ([email protected])
Artur Moreira ([email protected])
Mario Liebisch ([email protected])
And many other members of the SFML community

Download

You can get the latest official release on SFML's website. You can also get the current development version from the Git repository.

Install

Follow the instructions of the tutorials, there is one for each platform/compiler that SFML supports.

Learn

There are several places to learn SFML:

Contribute

SFML is an open-source project, and it needs your help to go on growing and improving. If you want to get involved and suggest some additional features, file a bug report or submit a patch, please have a look at the contribution guidelines.

SFML

Simple and Fast Multimedia Library. [zlib]