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 a mean to alter decoded Audio and Video through chain of 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.
• ffserver is a multimedia streaming server for live broadcasts.
• 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. Few developers follow pull requests so they will likely be ignored.