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compat compat: Fix the fallback definition of stdc_trailing_zeros 2024-09-24 14:00:27 +03:00
doc doc/examples/vaapi_encode: fix invalid check on fwrite 2025-09-14 00:31:17 +02:00
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fftools fftools/ffmpeg: fix gracefully shutdown 2025-09-14 00:31:17 +02:00
libavcodec avcodec/librsvgdec: fix compilation with librsvg 2.50.3 2025-09-14 00:31:17 +02:00
libavdevice avdevice/decklink_dec: fix leaks on error 2024-09-29 10:30:49 +02:00
libavfilter libavfilter/dnn/dnn_backend_tf: Remove redundant av_freep() to avoid double free 2025-09-08 02:13:31 +02:00
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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.