MLT is an open source multimedia framework, designed and developed for
television broadcasting.  It provides a toolkit for broadcasters, video
editors, media players, transcoders, web streamers and many more types
of applications.  The functionality of the system is provided via an
assortment of ready to use tools, XML authoring components, and an
extensible plug-in based API.

Optional dependencies are ladspa_sdk, frei0r, swfdec, libvdpau and
jack-rack.

The build script autodetect language interpreters on your system
and build the relative bindings.