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.