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FFmpeg is a free software project that produces libraries and programs for handling multimedia data. The most notable parts of FFmpeg are libavcodec, an audio/video codec library used by several other projects, libavformat, an audio/video container mux and demux library, and the ffmpeg command line program for transcoding multimedia files.

FFmpeg work really well 99% of the time so people are not afraid to use them.

FFmpeg is published under the GNU Lesser General Public License 2.1+ or GNU General Public License 2+ (depending on which options are enabled).

The project is made of several components:

• ffmpeg is a command line tool to convert multimedia files between formats.
• ffserver is a multimedia streaming server for live broadcasts.
• ffplay is a simple media player based on SDL and the FFmpeg libraries.
• ffprobe is a is a simple multimedia stream analyzer.
• libavutil is a library containing functions for simplifying programming, including random number generators, data structures, mathematics routines, core multimedia utilities, and much more.
• libavcodec is a library containing decoders and encoders for audio/video codecs.
• libavformat is a library containing demuxers and muxers for multimedia container formats.
• libavdevice is a library containing input and output devices for grabbing from and rendering to many common multimedia input/output software frameworks, including Video4Linux, Video4Linux2, VfW, and ALSA.
• libavfilter is a library containing media filters.
• libswscale is a library performing highly optimized image scaling and color space/pixel format conversion operations.