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.