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Libav is a collection of libraries and tools to process multimedia contentsuch as audio, video, subtitles and related metadata.

• 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.

• avconv is a command line toolbox tomanipulate, convert and stream multimedia content.
• avplay is a minimalistic multimedia player.
• avprobe is a simple analisys tool to inspectmultimedia content.
• Additional small tools such asaviocat,ismindex andqt-faststart.

The offline documentation is available in thedoc/ directory.

The online documentation is available in the mainwebsiteand in thewiki.

Conding examples are available in thedoc/example directory.

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