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Multimedia framework for research and academic purposes. Version 26.02.0 via Homebrew; verified 2026-06-18.

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macOS

Homebrewverified · 100%
brew install gpac

local Homebrew formula metadata

MacPortsverified · 94%
sudo port install gpac

MacPorts ports tree · multimedia/gpac/Portfile · source: api.github.com

Linux

Fedora dnfverified · 92%
sudo dnf install gpac

Fedora Rawhide package metadata · gpac · source: dl.fedoraproject.org

Nixverified · 92%
nix profile install nixpkgs#gpac

nixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/gp/gpac/package.nix · source: api.github.com

Arch Linux pacmanverified · 92%
sudo pacman -S gpac

Arch Linux sync databases · gpac · source: geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com

Ubuntu aptverified · 92%
sudo apt install gpac

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes · gpac · source: archive.ubuntu.com

overview

Package summary

Multimedia framework for research and academic purposes

Commands and aliases

  • MP4Box
  • gpac

history

Project history and usage

GPAC is an open-source multimedia framework for standards-oriented media processing, packaging, streaming, playback, inspection, and interaction. It is especially known in packaging circles for MP4Box and for deep support of MP4/ISOBMFF, MPEG-DASH, CMAF, and related media standards.

Project history

The GPAC FAQ says the project's seeds were planted by Jean Le Feuvre in New York while working on MPEG-4 ideas, and that researchers later helped keep the codebase available as a fully open-source project. The repository README says GPAC started as a startup in NYC, gained traction from research and a nascent multimedia community, and was open-sourced in 2003.

The Git repository history imported from earlier CVS begins in 2005, and the project later moved through long-running 0.x releases to 1.x, 2.x, and calendar-style 26.x release tags. The README identifies Telecom Paris's MultiMedia group as the main development home, with external contributors and industrial R&D collaborations.

Adoption history

GPAC's adoption is strongest where media engineers need standards-conformant tooling rather than a single-purpose transcoder. Its README names video enthusiasts, academic researchers, standardization bodies, and professional broadcasters as common audiences, and the project provides installers and packages across desktop, server, and mobile platforms.

How it is used

Users commonly invoke MP4Box for MP4 import, extraction, inspection, DASH segmentation, RTP hinting, and packaging operations. The `gpac` application exposes the framework's filter engine directly, letting users build arbitrary media-processing pipelines from filters.

Why package nerds care

For package maintainers, GPAC is the kind of media package that pulls weight far beyond its formula name: MP4Box is a fixture in packaging scripts, test corpora, streaming workflows, and academic demos, while libgpac and bindings make the framework embeddable. The challenge is balancing a large codec/container feature surface with reproducible builds and platform-specific media dependencies.

Timeline

  • 2003: GPAC is open-sourced according to the official README.
  • 2005: CVS-derived repository history begins in the Git import.
  • 2015: v0.5.2 is tagged as the first GitHub-versioned release in the repository history.
  • 2020: v0.9.0 and v1.0.0 tags appear around the filter-era framework work cited by the README.
  • 2022: v2.0.0 is tagged as GPAC 2.0.
  • 2026: v26.02.0 is tagged as GPAC Release 26.02.

Related projects

  • MP4Box is the best-known GPAC command-line tool and shares the same source tree.
  • libgpac is the embeddable library beneath GPAC tools.
  • MP4Box.js is a JavaScript project inspired by GPAC's MP4Box tool.
  • The GPAC testsuite repository carries conformance and regression tests for the framework.

security posture

Risk level: blue

broad file, network, media, or database tool signal.

Risk classifier

blue risk · medium confidence · tool

Why

  • broad file, network, media, or database tool signal

Signals

  • text:media

Install behavior

  • No Homebrew post-install hook is recorded in formula metadata.
  • Homebrew bottle metadata is available for 6 platform targets.
  • Installs with 14 runtime dependencies.
  • Build metadata lists 1 build dependencies.

Recommended review

Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.

executables

Installed executables

CommandKindExposureNote
MP4Boxcliglobal executable
gpaccliglobal executable

freshness

Version and freshness

These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.

page generated2026-07-08
manager version26.02.0
manager updated2026-06-18
local dataok
upstreamcurrent
latest detectedv26.02.0

https://github.com/gpac/gpac

  • okNo freshness warnings were generated.

install metadata

Package metadata

Package keybrew:gpac
Version26.02.0
Package managerHomebrew
Package manager pagehttps://formulae.brew.sh/formula/gpac
Homepagehttps://gpac.io/
Repositoryhttps://github.com/gpac/gpac
Upstream docshttps://wiki.gpac.io/
LicenseLGPL-2.1-or-later
Source archivehttps://github.com/gpac/gpac/archive/refs/tags/v26.02.0.tar.gz
Last updated2026-06-18T02:28:58-04:00
Pulseupdated
Dependenciesffmpeg, freetype, jpeg-turbo, libnghttp2, libogg, libpng, libvorbis, libx11, libxext, openjpeg, openssl@3, sdl2-compat, theora, xz
Build dependenciespkgconf
Bottleavailable (on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux)
Homebrew post-installnot defined
Servicenone declared

registry facts

Source database details

Source DatabaseHomebrew formula API
Taphomebrew/core
Full Namegpac
Aliases
  • mp4box
Version Scheme0
Revision0
Head VersionHEAD
Bottle Stable Root URLhttps://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core
Deprecatedno
Disabledno
Keg Onlyno
URL Keys
  • head
  • stable

source database matches

Other package-manager records

Matches are pulled from external package-manager indexes and kept separate from local Automic Vault package links.

Nix95%

gpac

nix profile install nixpkgs#gpac
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Gpac
nixpkgs package indexes · api.github.com · nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/gp/gpac/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
Ubuntu apt95%

gpac 2.2.1+dfsg1-3.1build2

GPAC Project on Advanced Content - utilities

https://gpac.wp.mines-telecom.fr/

sudo apt install gpac
  • Section: universe/graphics
  • Architecture: amd64
  • 3 dependencies
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Gpac
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes · archive.ubuntu.com · Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: gpac from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz
Ubuntu apt95%

gpac-modules-base 2.2.1+dfsg1-3.1build2

GPAC Project on Advanced Content - modules

https://gpac.wp.mines-telecom.fr/

sudo apt install gpac-modules-base
  • Section: universe/graphics
  • Architecture: amd64
  • Source Package: gpac
  • 11 dependencies
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Gpac
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes · archive.ubuntu.com · Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: gpac-modules-base from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz
Ubuntu apt95%

libgpac-dev 2.2.1+dfsg1-3.1build2

GPAC Project on Advanced Content - development files

https://gpac.wp.mines-telecom.fr/

sudo apt install libgpac-dev
  • Section: universe/libdevel
  • Architecture: amd64
  • Source Package: gpac
  • 1 dependencies
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Gpac
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes · archive.ubuntu.com · Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: libgpac-dev from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz
Ubuntu apt95%

libgpac12t64 2.2.1+dfsg1-3.1build2

GPAC Project on Advanced Content - shared libraries

https://gpac.wp.mines-telecom.fr/

sudo apt install libgpac12t64
  • Section: universe/libs
  • Architecture: amd64
  • Source Package: gpac
  • 16 dependencies
  • 1 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Gpac
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes · archive.ubuntu.com · Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: libgpac12t64 from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz
dnf95%

gpac 26.02.0-1.fc45

MPEG-4 multimedia framework

https://gpac.io/

sudo dnf install gpac
  • License: LGPL-2.0-or-later
  • Category: Unspecified
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: gpac
  • 4 dependencies
  • 3 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Gpac
Fedora Rawhide package metadata · dl.fedoraproject.org · Fedora Rawhide package metadata: gpac from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst
dnf95%

gpac-devel 26.02.0-1.fc45

Development libraries and files for gpac

https://gpac.io/

sudo dnf install gpac-devel
  • License: LGPL-2.0-or-later
  • Category: Unspecified
  • Architecture: i686
  • Source Package: gpac
  • 3 dependencies
  • 2 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Gpac
Fedora Rawhide package metadata · dl.fedoraproject.org · Fedora Rawhide package metadata: gpac-devel from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst
dnf95%

gpac-doc 26.02.0-1.fc45

Documentation for gpac

https://gpac.io/

sudo dnf install gpac-doc
  • License: LGPL-2.0-or-later
  • Category: Unspecified
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: gpac
  • 1 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Gpac
Fedora Rawhide package metadata · dl.fedoraproject.org · Fedora Rawhide package metadata: gpac-doc from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst
dnf95%

gpac-libs 26.02.0-1.fc45

Library for gpac

https://gpac.io/

sudo dnf install gpac-libs
  • License: LGPL-2.0-or-later
  • Category: Unspecified
  • Architecture: i686
  • Source Package: gpac
  • 32 dependencies
  • 2 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Gpac
Fedora Rawhide package metadata · dl.fedoraproject.org · Fedora Rawhide package metadata: gpac-libs from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst
dnf95%

gpac-static 26.02.0-1.fc45

Development libraries and files for gpac

https://gpac.io/

sudo dnf install gpac-static
  • License: LGPL-2.0-or-later
  • Category: Unspecified
  • Architecture: i686
  • Source Package: gpac
  • 1 dependencies
  • 2 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Gpac
Fedora Rawhide package metadata · dl.fedoraproject.org · Fedora Rawhide package metadata: gpac-static from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst
pacman95%

gpac 1:2.4.0-1

A multimedia framework based on the MPEG-4 Systems standard

https://gpac.wp.imt.fr/

sudo pacman -S gpac
  • License: LGPL
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • 5 dependencies
  • 1 provides
  • 1 optional deps
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Gpac
Arch Linux sync databases · geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com · Arch Linux sync databases: gpac from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz
MacPorts95%

gpac

sudo port install gpac
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Gpac
MacPorts ports tree · api.github.com · MacPorts ports tree: multimedia/gpac/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1
Chocolatey95%

gpac

choco install gpac
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Gpac
Chocolatey community package catalog · community.chocolatey.org · Chocolatey community package catalog: gpac from http://community.chocolatey.org/api/v2/Packages?$filter=IsLatestVersion&$select=Id&$top=1000&$skiptoken='6.5836','capture'
Scoop95%

main/gpac

scoop install main/gpac
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Gpac
Scoop official bucket manifest trees · api.github.com · Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/gpac.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Main/git/trees/master?recursive=1
winget95%

GPAC.GPAC

winget install --id GPAC.GPAC -e
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Gpac
Windows Package Manager source index · cdn.winget.microsoft.com · Windows Package Manager source index: GPAC.GPAC from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix

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