ffmpeg

FFmpeg is a complete solution to record, convert and stream audio and video. Its components include: 


    * ffmpeg      -- Converts one video file format to another and
                     supports grabbing and encoding in real time
                     from a TV card.
    * ffserver    -- HTTP (RTSP is being developed) multimedia streaming
                     server for live broadcasts that supports time
                     shifting.
    * ffplay      -- simple media player based on SDL and the ffmpeg libraries
    * libavcodec  -- library containing all ffmpeg audio/video
		     encoders and decoders (most developed from scratch
                     for best performances and high reusability
    * libavformat -- library of parsers and generators for all
		     common audio/video formats

Last updated 7 Jan, 2008


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Leadership
  • Fabrice Bellard - Maintainer
  • See the CREDITS file in the distribution for a complete list - Contributor
Related Projects

Flumotion, FreeJ, Gstreamer, Icecast, XMFFMPEG, fftv, libshout

Subprograms

ffserver, ffplay, libavcodec, libavformat

Versions

0.4.9-pre1

0.4.9-pre1 beta released 2004-07-10

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See http://ffmpeg.sourceforge.net/documentation.php for a complete list of documentation

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