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                                                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.

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