What technologies are available for programmatic video editing?

Question

Problem:

Users should be able to download high-resolution video clips from an application (thick client) that runs on their system. inside this application I need a framework or lib that can convert video to a low resolution version.

and on the other hand, I need something that is capable of creating videos directly from images, animating them so that they look like videos.

Answer 1

I would recommend the following:

Window

• DirectShow SDK
• Media Foundation SDK
• Quicktime sdk

Mac

• QTKit Framework

Linux

• Gstreamer

- , MainConcept CodecSDK, .

Answer 2

, , Linux: phonon gstreamer. , avidemux mencoder ( MPlayer).

, Windows Mac.