FFmpeg README

FFmpeg is a collection of libraries and tools to process multimedia content
such as audio, video, subtitles and related metadata.

Libraries

• libavcodec provides implementation of a wider range of codecs.
• libavformat implements streaming protocols, container formats and basic I/O access.
• libavutil includes hashers, decompressors and miscellaneous utility functions.
• libavfilter provides means to alter decoded audio and video through a directed graph of connected filters.
• libavdevice provides an abstraction to access capture and playback devices.
• libswresample implements audio mixing and resampling routines.
• libswscale implements color conversion and scaling routines.

Tools

• ffmpeg is a command line toolbox to

manipulate, convert and stream multimedia content.

• ffplay is a minimalistic multimedia player.
• ffprobe is a simple analysis tool to inspect

multimedia content.

• Additional small tools such as aviocat, ismindex and qt-faststart.

Documentation

The offline documentation is available in the doc/ directory.

The online documentation is available in the main website
and in the wiki.

Examples

Coding examples are available in the doc/examples directory.

License

FFmpeg codebase is mainly LGPL-licensed with optional components licensed under
GPL. Please refer to the LICENSE file for detailed information.

Contributing

Patches should be submitted to the ffmpeg-devel mailing list using
git format-patch or git send-email. Github pull requests should be
avoided because they are not part of our review process and will be ignored.

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