Medo is an open-source video and media editor made specifically for the 64-bit Haiku operating system. Despite its small installer - under 1.44 MB and relying only on software included with a standard Haiku release - it can edit UHD 4K video and export through Haiku-supported codecs. Its tools include color grading and correction, Adobe LUT support, masks and keyframes, transitions, blur and chroma-key effects, video transforms, text treatments including 3D fonts, and audio features such as a 20-band equalizer and fades. The interface is multilingual and themable, and the program is designed to use multiple CPU cores while keeping system demands low.
Extensibility is a central part of Medo’s design: users can add GLSL shader effects, while developers can build dynamically loaded extensions for more complex audio and video processing. The editor uses OpenGL 3.3 for effect rendering, a bundled OpenGL abstraction library, and Haiku’s native MediaKit for decoding; because MediaKit encoding had stability problems, FFmpeg is the default export path. The codebase is primarily C++, with parallel processing handled by an Actor library for tasks such as thumbnails, rendering, audio buffers, and exports. Developers need a Haiku environment, a 64-bit toolchain, and FFmpeg development files; the project supports Jam as its main build system and CMake as an alternative. It is released under the MIT license.
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