A list of paid, free or open source C# and .NET plugins, libraries and tools for media including video recording, playback, decoding and encoding, Audio data, file support for MP3, MP4, WAV, AIFF, Speex and FFmpeg. Sourced under a creative commons. Sourced under a creative commons. This list will be updated regularly. Email over the URL, if you wish to be included.

C# and .NET media and video libraries, plugins and tools

• CSCore – An advanced audio library, supporting playback/recording, decoding/encoding and processing of audio data in realtime (effects, visualizations, …).
• TagLib# – TagLib# (aka taglib-sharp) is a library for reading and writing metadata in media files, including video, audio, and photo formats
• LibVLCSharp – Xamarin bindings for libvlc, the multimedia framework powering the VLC applications made by VideoLAN.
• NAudio – Playback, decode and encode audio in a variety of file formats such as MP3, MP4, WAV, AIFF, Speex, etc.
• Xabe.FFmpeg – .NET Standard wrapper for FFmpeg. It allows to process media without know how FFmpeg works, and can be used to pass customized arguments to FFmpeg from C# application. [$]
• SeeShark – Cross-platform camera library for .NET using FFmpeg supporting over 190 pixel formats

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