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FFmpeg

Name: FFmpeg
Author: FFmpeg

by FFmpegC

The universal media toolkit. Every video pipeline ends up shelling out to it.

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Last commit: 2026-08-03
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In practice

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Media pipelines need format conversion, resampling, and filtering that no single language runtime provides.

Use it when

When a workflow has to transcode, cut, resample, or inspect audio and video files.

Not the right pick when

This repo is a mirror with no install instructions, and GitHub pull requests are ignored in favor of the mailing list.

Capabilities

ffmpeg command line toolbox to manipulate, convert and stream media
ffprobe to inspect multimedia content
ffplay minimalistic media player
libavcodec and libavformat for codecs and container formats
libavfilter graph based audio and video filtering
libswresample and libswscale for resampling and scaling

Cost: Free and open source

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What the repository ships

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README

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 means to alter decoded audio and video through a directed graph of connected 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.

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 and will be ignored.