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Rust crates · category · data Oct 27, 2026
Multimedia crates by real downloads
crates.io describes this category as: “Crates that provide audio, video, and image processing or rendering engines.” Below are the 5 crates in it among the 1000 most-downloaded crates, ranked by real downloads (quiet-day baseline) instead of raw count.
Short answerBy steady daily use, gstreamer leads Multimedia with 30,924 real downloads a day (established and gaining). 0 of the 5 have 1,000+ dependents; 0 have shipped nothing in 2+ years. Release spikes barely matter here: the median crate got 3.2% of its downloads within 2 days of a release.
5 crates
| Compare | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| gstreamerEstablished | 30,924 | 237 | 36d | +48% | 12.4M | |
| ffmpeg-nextEstablished | 25,189 | 125 | 3mo | +12% | 8.3M | |
| gstreamer-videoEstablished | 19,154 | 104 | 36d | -24% | 8.4M | |
| opencvEstablished | 14,034 | 100 | 18d | -46% | 5.1M | |
| video-rsPulled in | 1,478 | 16 | 48d | +9% | 466K |
Click a column to sort; press + to add a crate to a comparison. Real / day = median downloads on days with no release that day or the day before. Each crate's page shows its verdict and the 4 rules behind it. Why this method · this category on crates.io
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