Pure-Rust media transcoding and streaming. No C libraries, no FFI wrappers, no *-sys crates — every codec, container, and filter is implemented from the spec in safe Rust.

The two user-facing binaries:

Probe, remux, transcode, run JSON transcode graphs. Drop-in on servers and pipelines; one static binary, no system deps.

cargo install oxideav-cli           # from crates.io
# or grab a pre-built binary from the latest release:
# https://github.com/OxideAV/oxideav-workspace/releases

oxideav list                            # registered codecs + containers
oxideav probe video.mp4                 # demux probe + metadata
oxideav transcode song.flac song.wav    # remux or transcode
oxideav run job.json                    # run a JSON transcode graph

SDL2 + TUI frontend. SDL2 is loaded at runtime via libloading, so the binary builds + ships without an SDL2 build-time dep (install SDL2 on the target machine; oxideplay falls back gracefully if it's missing).

cargo install oxideplay             # from crates.io
# or grab it pre-built from the release archive:
# https://github.com/OxideAV/oxideav-workspace/releases

oxideplay path/to/file.mkv
oxideplay https://example.com/video.mp4
oxideplay --job job.json            # render a transcode graph live

Pre-built releases bundle both binaries (oxideav + oxideplay) in one per-platform archive — Linux x86_64, macOS universal (Intel + Apple Silicon), Windows x86_64 — published as a single GitHub Release per workspace tag.

OxideAV is a modular framework shipped as ~55 small crates. Each codec is its own repository and its own crates.io release, so you pick only what you need and their cadence stays independent of the framework.

Single-crate standalone use is the expected case:

[dependencies]
oxideav-core = "0.0"       # types
oxideav-codec = "0.0"      # Decoder / Encoder traits + registry
oxideav-g711 = "0.0"       # or any other codec

use oxideav_codec::CodecRegistry;
use oxideav_core::{CodecId, CodecParameters, Frame, Packet, TimeBase};

let mut reg = CodecRegistry::new();
oxideav_g711::register(&mut reg);

let mut params = CodecParameters::audio(CodecId::new("pcm_mulaw"));
params.sample_rate = Some(8_000);
params.channels = Some(1);

let mut dec = reg.make_decoder(&params)?;
dec.send_packet(&Packet::new(0, TimeBase::new(1, 8_000), ulaw_bytes))?;
let Frame::Audio(a) = dec.receive_frame()? else { unreachable!() };

Or use the aggregator (oxideav) to pull everything in one shot:

[dependencies]
oxideav = "0.0"

Containers — MP4 · Matroska / WebM · Ogg · AVI · FLAC · MP3 · WAV / slin · IFF / 8SVX · PNG / APNG · GIF · JPEG · WebP · AMV · MOD · S3M

Audio codecs — PCM · AAC-LC · FLAC · Vorbis · Opus · CELT · Speex · MP1 · MP2 · MP3 · GSM · G.711 · G.722 · G.723.1 · G.728 · G.729

Video codecs — MJPEG · FFV1 · MPEG-1 · MPEG-4 Part 2 · H.263 · H.264 (partial) · H.265 (parse) · AV1 (parse) · VP8 · VP9 (partial) · Theora · ProRes 422 · AMV

Image codecs — PNG / APNG · GIF · WebP (lossy + lossless) · JPEG (via MJPEG)

Subtitles — SRT · WebVTT · ASS / SSA · TTML · SAMI · MicroDVD · MPL2 · MPsub · VPlayer · PJS · AQTitle · JACOsub · RealText · SubViewer 1/2 · EBU STL · PGS · DVB · VobSub

Clone oxideav-workspace plus any sibling crate you want to hack on, then run scripts/dev-patch.sh. The generated .cargo/config.toml wires every local sibling into the workspace via [patch.crates-io], so cargo run -p oxideplay picks up your local edits without a re-publish.

Every crate is MIT-licensed. Copyright © 2026 Karpelès Lab Inc.