macOS
Homebrewverified · 100%
brew install mltlocal Homebrew formula metadata
MacPortsverified · 94%
sudo port install mltMacPorts ports tree · multimedia/mlt/Portfile · source: api.github.com
brew
Install mlt with Homebrew, apk, apt, dnf, MacPorts, Nix, pacman
Author, manage, and run multitrack audio/video compositions. Version 7.40.0 via Homebrew; verified 2026-06-25.
install
Additional install commands
Linux
Alpine Linux apkverified · 92%
sudo apk add mltAlpine Linux edge package indexes · mlt · source: dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org
Debian aptverified · 92%
sudo apt install libmlt++-devDebian stable package indexes · libmlt++-dev · source: deb.debian.org
Fedora dnfverified · 92%
sudo dnf install mltFedora Rawhide package metadata · mlt · source: dl.fedoraproject.org
Nixverified · 92%
nix profile install nixpkgs#mltnixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/ml/mlt/package.nix · source: api.github.com
Arch Linux pacmanverified · 92%
sudo pacman -S mltArch Linux sync databases · mlt · source: geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com
overview
Package summary
Author, manage, and run multitrack audio/video compositions
Project links
Commands and aliases
- melt-7
history
Project history and usage
MLT, the Media Lovin' Toolkit, is an open-source multimedia framework designed for television broadcasting and packaged for command-line and library use around the `melt` executable. The project site describes it as a framework for authoring, managing, and running multitrack audio/video compositions, and as the engine of non-linear video editors and other media applications.
Project history
Technically, MLT provides a toolkit for broadcasters, video editors, media players, transcoders, web streamers, and related applications through ready-to-use tools, XML authoring components, and an extensible plugin API. Meltytech describes MLT as an engine that can author a multimedia composition, manipulate it, save it, reload it, and execute it for playback, streaming, or non-realtime encoding. That design gives MLT a package-manager niche broader than a single CLI: installing it supplies the `melt` renderer plus shared framework pieces used by desktop editors and headless media pipelines.
How it is used
Adoption is strongest in video-editing and broadcast-style workflows. The MLT projects page lists Flowblade, Kdenlive, Shotcut, Synfig Studio, OpenShot 1.x, Melted, and other applications or services using MLT. Meltytech also documents case-study deployments for video souvenirs, Wikimedia-oriented rendering, ETV India, SLAM!FM playout, and broadcast graphics. In practice, users encounter MLT directly through `melt` commands and indirectly when editors serialize projects to MLT XML and hand rendering or playback to the framework.
Sources
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:video,audio
Install behavior
- No Homebrew post-install hook is recorded in formula metadata.
- Homebrew bottle metadata is available for 6 platform targets.
- Installs with 23 runtime dependencies.
- Build metadata lists 2 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
| Command | Kind | Exposure | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
melt-7 | cli | global 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 version7.40.0
manager updated2026-06-25
local dataok
upstreamnot checked
latest detectednot detected
https://github.com/mltframework/mlt
- infoNo cached GitHub release or tag data was available.https://github.com/mltframework/mltnone confidence
install metadata
Package metadata
| Package key | brew:mlt |
|---|---|
| Version | 7.40.0 |
| Package manager | Homebrew |
| Package manager page | https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/mlt |
| Homepage | https://www.mltframework.org/ |
| Repository | https://github.com/mltframework/mlt |
| Upstream docs | https://www.mltframework.org/docs |
| License | LGPL-2.1-only |
| Source archive | https://github.com/mltframework/mlt/releases/download/v7.40.0/mlt-7.40.0.tar.gz |
| Last updated | 2026-06-25T15:01:20Z |
| Pulse | updated |
| Dependencies | ffmpeg, fftw, fontconfig, freetype, frei0r, gdk-pixbuf, gettext, glib, harfbuzz, libdv, libexif, libomp, libsamplerate, libvidstab, libvorbis, opencv, pango, qt5compat, qtbase, qtsvg, rubberband, sdl2-compat, sox |
| Build dependencies | cmake, pkgconf |
| Uses from macOS | libxml2 |
| Bottle | available (on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux) |
| Homebrew post-install | not defined |
| Service | none declared |
registry facts
Source database details
| Source Database | Homebrew formula API |
|---|---|
| Tap | homebrew/core |
| Full Name | mlt |
| Version Scheme | 0 |
| Revision | 0 |
| Head Version | HEAD |
| Bottle Stable Root URL | https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core |
| Deprecated | no |
| Disabled | no |
| Keg Only | no |
| URL Keys |
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source database matches
Other package-manager records
Matches are pulled from external package-manager indexes and kept separate from local Automic Vault package links.
Debian apt95%
libmlt++-dev 7.30.0-1+b2
MLT multimedia framework C++ wrapper (development)
sudo apt install libmlt++-dev- Section: libdevel
- Architecture: amd64
- Source Package: mlt
- 1 dependencies
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Mlt
Debian apt95%
libmlt++7 7.30.0-1+b2
MLT multimedia framework C++ wrapper (runtime)
sudo apt install libmlt++7- Section: libs
- Architecture: amd64
- Source Package: mlt
- 4 dependencies
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Mlt
Debian apt95%
libmlt-data 7.30.0-1
multimedia framework (data)
sudo apt install libmlt-data- Section: libs
- Architecture: all
- Source Package: mlt
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Mlt
Debian apt95%
libmlt-dev 7.30.0-1+b2
multimedia framework (development)
sudo apt install libmlt-dev- Section: libdevel
- Architecture: amd64
- Source Package: mlt
- 1 dependencies
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Mlt
Debian apt95%
libmlt7 7.30.0-1+b2
multimedia framework (runtime)
sudo apt install libmlt7- Section: libs
- Architecture: amd64
- Source Package: mlt
- 32 dependencies
- 1 optional deps
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Mlt
Debian apt95%
melt 7.30.0-1+b2
command line media player and video editor
sudo apt install melt- Section: utils
- Architecture: amd64
- Source Package: mlt
- 4 dependencies
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Mlt
Debian apt95%
python3-mlt 7.30.0-1+b2
multimedia framework (Python bindings)
sudo apt install python3-mlt- Section: python
- Architecture: amd64
- Source Package: mlt
- 6 dependencies
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Mlt
Nix95%
mlt
nix profile install nixpkgs#mlt- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Mlt
Ubuntu apt95%
libmlt++-dev 7.22.0-1build6
MLT multimedia framework C++ wrapper (development)
sudo apt install libmlt++-dev- Section: universe/libdevel
- Architecture: amd64
- Source Package: mlt
- 1 dependencies
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Mlt
Ubuntu apt95%
libmlt++7 7.22.0-1build6
MLT multimedia framework C++ wrapper (runtime)
sudo apt install libmlt++7- Section: universe/libs
- Architecture: amd64
- Source Package: mlt
- 4 dependencies
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Mlt
Ubuntu apt95%
libmlt-data 7.22.0-1build6
multimedia framework (data)
sudo apt install libmlt-data- Section: universe/libs
- Architecture: all
- Source Package: mlt
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Mlt
Ubuntu apt95%
libmlt-dev 7.22.0-1build6
multimedia framework (development)
sudo apt install libmlt-dev- Section: universe/libdevel
- Architecture: amd64
- Source Package: mlt
- 1 dependencies
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Mlt
Ubuntu apt95%
libmlt7 7.22.0-1build6
multimedia framework (runtime)
sudo apt install libmlt7- Section: universe/libs
- Architecture: amd64
- Source Package: mlt
- 32 dependencies
- 1 optional deps
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Mlt
Ubuntu apt95%
melt 7.22.0-1build6
command line media player and video editor
sudo apt install melt- Section: universe/utils
- Architecture: amd64
- Source Package: mlt
- 4 dependencies
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Mlt
Ubuntu apt95%
python3-mlt 7.22.0-1build6
multimedia framework (Python bindings)
sudo apt install python3-mlt- Section: universe/python
- Architecture: amd64
- Source Package: mlt
- 6 dependencies
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Mlt
apk95%
mlt 7.36.1-r1
MLT Multimedia Framework
sudo apk add mlt- License: GPL-2.0-or-later AND LGPL-2.1-or-later AND GPL-3.0-or-later
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: mlt
- 1 dependencies
- 1 provides
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Mlt
source trail
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