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Libav

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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](http://libav.org/avconv.html) is a command line toolbox to

  manipulate, convert and stream multimedia content.

* [avplay](http://libav.org/avplay.html) is a minimalistic multimedia player.

* [avprobe](http://libav.org/avprobe.html) 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](http://libav.org)

and in the [wiki](http://wiki.libav.org).



### 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.