libavcodec

libavcodec is a free and open-source library of codecs for encoding and decoding video and audio data.

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Software.name: libavcodec
Software.developer: FFmpeg team
Software.latest release version: 62.11.100
Software.programming language: C99
Software.operating system: Available for Windows, macOS, Linux but may be compiled for any other OS
Software.platform: Available for x86 and ARM but may be compiled for other processor architectures
Software.genre: Multimedia Library
Software.license: GNU LGPL 2.1+ or GNU GPL 2+ or non-redistributable if compiled as such

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Official website: ffmpeg.org

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source code repository URL: git://git.libav.org/libav.git
official shop URL: ffmpeg.org

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Implemented video codecs
Implemented audio codecs
Legal aspects
Libraries that depend on libavcodec
Applications using libavcodec
Video players
Audio players
Multimedia players
Video editors
Audio editors
Video converters
Video libraries
Optical disc authoring
Graphics libraries
3D graphics editors
VoIP
Multimedia streaming server
Multimedia frameworks
Computer vision libraries
Browser
Media center
Screen capture
Device utilities
CCTV
Games
Others
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libavcodec is a free and open-source library of codecs for encoding and decoding video and audio data.

libavcodec is an integral part of many open-source multimedia applications and frameworks. The popular MPV, xine and VLC media players use it as their main, built-in decoding engine that enables playback of many audio and video formats on all supported platforms. It is also used by the ffdshow tryouts decoder as its primary decoding library. libavcodec is also used in video editing and transcoding applications like Avidemux, MEncoder or Kdenlive for both decoding and encoding.