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xvid

brew install xvid v1.3.7 GPL-2.0-or-later

MPEG-4 video codec library with fast, high-quality encoding and decoding.

Why you might care

Xvid is a widely-used open-source video codec library, primarily needed as a build or runtime dependency for multimedia applications that require MPEG-4 video support. It's stable, mature, and offers good performance-to-quality tradeoffs; you typically reach for it when another tool (FFmpeg, GStreamer, VLC) depends on it or when building custom video processing pipelines.

Categories

library video-tool compression

Alternatives

FFmpeg libx264 libx265 GStreamer
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