FFmpeg being used to convert a file from the PNG file format to the WebP format
Original author(s)
Fabrice Bellard
Bobby Bingham (libavfilter)[1]
Developer(s)
FFmpeg team
Initial release
December 20, 2000; 23 years ago (2000-12-20)[2]
Stable release
7.0[3]
/ 5 April 2024
Repository
git.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.git
Written in
C and Assembly[4]
Operating system
Various, including Windows, macOS, and Linux (executable programs are only available from third parties, as the project only distributes source code)[5][6]
Platform
x86, ARM, PowerPC, MIPS, RISC-V, DEC Alpha, Blackfin, AVR32, SH-4, and SPARC; may be compiled for other desktop computers
Type
Multimedia framework
License
LGPL-2.1-or-later, GPL-2.0-or-later Unredistributable if compiled with any software with a license incompatible with the GPL[7]
Website
ffmpeg.org
FFmpeg is a free and open-source software project consisting of a suite of libraries and programs for handling video, audio, and other multimedia files and streams. At its core is the command-line ffmpeg tool itself, designed for processing of video and audio files. It is widely used for format transcoding, basic editing (trimming and concatenation), video scaling, video post-production effects and standards compliance (SMPTE, ITU).
FFmpeg also includes other tools: ffplay, a simple media player and ffprobe, a command-line tool to display media information. Among included libraries are libavcodec, an audio/video codec library used by many commercial and free software products, libavformat (Lavf),[8] an audio/video container mux and demux library, and libavfilter, a library for enhancing and editing filters through a Gstreamer-like filtergraph.[9]
FFmpeg is part of the workflow of many other software projects, and its libraries are a core part of software media players such as VLC, and has been included in core processing for YouTube and Bilibili.[10] Encoders and decoders for many audio and video file formats are included, making it highly useful for the transcoding of common and uncommon media files.
FFmpeg is published under the LGPL-2.1-or-later or GPL-2.0-or-later, depending on which options are enabled.[11]
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^FFmpeg can be compiled with various external libraries, some of which have licenses that are incompatible with the FFmpeg's primary license, the GNU GPL.
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FFmpeg is a free and open-source software project consisting of a suite of libraries and programs for handling video, audio, and other multimedia files...
available under BSD licenses. Software supporting Matroska include all ffmpeg/libav-based ones, including, notably, mplayer, mpv, VLC, Foobar2000, Media...
September 2016. Retrieved 6 May 2017. FFmpeg/Libavcodec, numerous others, see Open Source implementations FFMPEG formats Kuro5hin.org (2008-07-20) Patent...
free software FFmpeg project's libraries have very wide support for encoding and decoding video file formats. For example, Google uses ffmpeg to support...
platforms. FFmpeg’s native AAC encoder does not support HE-AAC and HE-AACv2, but GPL 2.0+ of ffmpeg is not compatible with FDK AAC, hence ffmpeg with libfdk-aac...
WebM format using ffmpeg libraries. MPC-HC since build SVN 2071 supports WebM playback with internal VP8 decoder based on FFmpeg's code. The full decoding...
supported NVDEC since 2017. FFmpeg has supported NVDEC since 2017. mpv has supported NVDEC since 2017 by the use of FFmpeg. HW accelerated decode and encode...
"Universe" or the "Multiverse" components. In addition, there is a GStreamer FFmpeg plug-in (called gst-libav for historic reasons) that extends the number...
forked from FFmpeg in 2011, that contains libraries and programs for handling multimedia data. The Libav project was a fork of the FFmpeg project. It...
version of H.263. The same developer added support for this codec to FFmpeg. FFmpeg supports decoding of "Sorenson Vector Quantizer 3" (fourcc SVQ3) and...
only if FFmpeg was built with OpenSSL, GnuTLS, Secure Transport or SChannel. Since FFmpeg 3.4, only if FFmpeg was built with libxml2 FFmpeg-devel - PATCH...
Format Factory was hanged on the FFmpeg's hall of shame. An issue tracker post claims that Format Factory violates the FFmpeg license. Comparison of video...
Documentation, Ffmpeg.org, archived from the original on 2019-07-17, retrieved 2021-05-05 "git.ffmpeg.org Git - ffmpeg.git/commit". git.ffmpeg.org. Retrieved...
Restreamer— Apache licensed media server for RTMP, HLS, and SRT with flexible FFmpeg API and graphical user interface dyne:bolic – Linux live CD ready for radio...
studio when set to "Lossless" quality. "#534 (Ut Video Support) – FFmpeg". ffmpeg.org. Retrieved March 22, 2017. "Ut Video Codec Suite - a new lossless...
download speed and/or limited media length in the "free" version requires ffmpeg requires Termux Free and open-source software portal Comparison of BitTorrent...
(starting from release 3.0.6400) Helix media player (Linux) ffmpeg, a command line tool from the FFmpeg project, supports VA-API encoding through CLI with version...
FFmpeg, VLC media player, and MPlayer. libcaca is free software, licensed under Do What the Fuck You Want to Public License version 2. MPlayer FFmpeg...
support the MXF standard: FFmpeg, an open source project added support for muxing and demuxing of MXF and MXF D-10 in FFmpeg 0.5, released in March 2009...
and Windows MEncoder, Avidemux, VLC, WinFF (graphical front-end based on FFmpeg), etc. These platform and framework independent applications access the...
It is written in C++ and uses Qt for its graphical user interface, and FFmpeg for its multimedia functions. Starting with version 2.4, Avidemux also offers...
finding/calibrating proprietary plugins. The libavcodec library from the FFmpeg project provides many of VLC's codecs, but the player mainly uses its own...
QuickTime. On 15 September 2011, FFmpeg introduced a free decoder for ProRes 422 for libavcodec. FFmbc, a fork of FFmpeg customized for broadcast and professional...
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/ 5 April 2024