You can not select more than 25 topics Topics must start with a letter or number, can include dashes ('-') and can be up to 35 characters long.
 
 
 
 
Vittorio Giovara 01bcc2d5c2 lavc: Drop deprecated destruct_packet related functions 9 years ago
compat use a wrapper script to call MS link.exe to avoid mixing with /usr/bin/link.exe 10 years ago
doc avconv_opt: Add an option that lists all supported hwaccels 9 years ago
libavcodec lavc: Drop deprecated destruct_packet related functions 9 years ago
libavdevice lavc: Drop deprecated destruct_packet related functions 9 years ago
libavfilter lavfi: Drop deprecated AVFilterBuffer* code 9 years ago
libavformat lavc: Drop deprecated destruct_packet related functions 9 years ago
libavresample lavr: Drop deprecated context reinitialization if resampling was not enabled 9 years ago
libavutil channel_layout: Add a 16channel default layout 9 years ago
libswscale sws: Drop deprecated SWS_CPU_CAPS defines 9 years ago
presets presets: spelling error in libvpx 1080p50_60 13 years ago
tests checkasm: Fix floating point arguments on 64-bit Windows 9 years ago
tools cws2fws: Close file handles on error 10 years ago
.gitattributes Treat all '*.pnm' files as non-text file 10 years ago
.gitignore Checkasm: assembly testing and benchmarking tool 10 years ago
COPYING.GPLv2 Rename COPYING.GPL --> COPYING.GPLv2 and COPYING.LGPL --> COPYING.LGPLv2.1. 16 years ago
COPYING.GPLv3 Add configure option to upgrade (L)GPL to version 3. 16 years ago
COPYING.LGPLv2.1 cosmetics: Delete empty lines at end of file. 13 years ago
COPYING.LGPLv3 Add configure option to upgrade (L)GPL to version 3. 16 years ago
CREDITS partially rename FFmpeg to Libav 14 years ago
Changelog dnxhddata: Add tables for missing DNx100 profiles 9 years ago
INSTALL doc: clarify configure features 14 years ago
LICENSE license: Mention that vf_interlace is GPL, not LGPL 10 years ago
Makefile checkasm: Always link statically 10 years ago
README doc: Add more information in the README 11 years ago
README.md doc: Add more information in the README 11 years ago
RELEASE Make the RELEASE file match with the most recent tag 10 years ago
arch.mak ppc: vsx: Implement float_dsp 10 years ago
avconv.c lavc: Consistently prefix input buffer defines 10 years ago
avconv.h Add a quality factor packet side data 10 years ago
avconv_dxva2.c avconv_dxva2: add hevc support 10 years ago
avconv_filter.c avconv: split creating and (re-)configuring complex filtergraphs 10 years ago
avconv_opt.c avconv_opt: Add an option that lists all supported hwaccels 9 years ago
avconv_vda.c avconv: vda: Unlock the pixel buffer once it is accessed 10 years ago
avconv_vdpau.c avconv_vdpau: allocate video surface of VDPAU-specified size 10 years ago
avplay.c lavc: AV-prefix all codec capabilities 10 years ago
avprobe.c avprobe: Print the display matrix from per-stream sidedata 10 years ago
cmdutils.c lavc: AV-prefix all codec capabilities 10 years ago
cmdutils.h avconv: use read_file() for reading the 2pass stats 10 years ago
cmdutils_common_opts.h avplay: Accept cpuflags option 11 years ago
common.mak checkasm: Always link statically 10 years ago
configure webm: Explicitly select libvpx, libopus and libvorbis encoders 9 years ago
library.mak build: Support executable only ldflags 11 years ago
version.sh Drop git- prefix from version labels 14 years ago

README.md

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.

Tools

  • 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.

Documentation

The offline documentation is available in the doc/ directory.

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

Examples

Conding examples are available in the doc/example directory.

License

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