A complete, cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video. FFmpeg is a collection of libraries and tools to process multimedia content such as audio, video, subtitles, and related metadata. Provides an implementation of a wider range of codecs. Implements streaming protocols, container formats, and basic I/O access. Includes hashers, decompressors and miscellaneous utility functions. Provides means to alter decoded audio and video through a directed graph of connected filters. Provides an abstraction to access capture and playback devices. Implements audio mixing and resampling routines. Implements color conversion and scaling routines. FFmpeg is a command-line toolbox to manipulate, convert and stream multimedia content. ffplay is a minimalistic multimedia player. FFmpeg codebase is mainly LGPL-licensed with optional components licensed under GPL.
Features
- Converting video and audio has never been so easy
- 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
- The offline documentation is available in the doc/ directory
- Coding examples are available in the doc/examples directory