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Libav

Libav 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 a mean to alter decoded Audio and Video through chain of filters.
libavdevice provides an abstraction to access capture and playback devices.
libavresample implements audio mixing and resampling routines.
libswscale implements color conversion and scaling routines.

avconv is a command line toolbox to manipulate, convert and stream multimedia content.
avplay is a minimalistic multimedia player.
avprobe is a simple analisys tool to inspect multimedia content.
Additional small tools such as aviocat, ismindex and qt-faststart.

The offline documentation is available in the doc/ directory.

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

Conding examples are available in the doc/example directory.

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