libavcodec

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libavcodec
Developed by FFmpeg team
Latest release 52.19.0 / 2009-02-24
Written in C99
Operating system Cross-platform
Type Multimedia Library
License LGPL 2.1 or later
Website http://ffmpeg.org

libavcodec is a free software/open source LGPL-licensed library of codecs for encoding and decoding video and audio data[1]. It is part of the FFmpeg project.[2]

libavcodec is an integral part of many open-source multimedia applications and frameworks. The popular MPlayer, 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. The GStreamer FFmpeg plugin[3] can be used for video playback of popular but patented formats like MPEG-2 (DVD video), MPEG-4 ASP and H.264, or proprietary formats like Windows Media Video, VP6 or RealVideo. libavcodec is also used in video editing and transcoding applications like Avidemux, MEncoder or Kdenlive for both decoding and encoding.

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[edit] Implemented video codecs

libavcodec includes video decoders and encoders for the following formats:[4]

[edit] Implemented audio codecs

libavcodec includes decoders and encoders for the following formats:[5]

[edit] Libraries that depend on libavcodec

  • libavformat (part of FFmpeg)
  • libgegl (optional part of GEGL)
    • libgimp (part of GIMP)
  • libmpcodecs (part of MPlayer)
  • libvlc (part of VLC)

[edit] Applications using libavcodec

[edit] Video players

[edit] Audio players

[edit] Multimedia players

[edit] Video editors

See also Comparison of video editing software

[edit] Visual Effects

[edit] Audio editors

[edit] Video converters

[edit] Audio converters

[edit] Graphic libraries

[edit] 3D graphics editors

[edit] VoIP

[edit] Multimedia Streaming Server

[edit] Multimedia frameworks

[edit] Metadata Manager

[edit] Computer vision libraries

[edit] API wrappers

[edit] Others

[edit] References

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