| 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](https://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.html) is a command line toolbox to | |
| manipulate, convert and stream multimedia content. | |
| * [ffplay](https://ffmpeg.org/ffplay.html) is a minimalistic multimedia player. | |
| * [ffprobe](https://ffmpeg.org/ffprobe.html) 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](https://ffmpeg.org) | |
| and in the [wiki](https://trac.ffmpeg.org). | |
| ### 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. | |