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FFmpeg
Ffmpeg logo.svg
Developer(s) FFmpeg team
Stable release 0.5 / 2009-03-10; 7 months ago
Written in C
Operating system Cross-platform
Platform Multi-platform
Development status active
Type Multimedia framework
License GNU Lesser General Public License
Website http://ffmpeg.org/

FFmpeg is a computer program that can record, convert and stream digital audio and video in numerous formats.[1] FFmpeg is a command line tool that is composed of a collection of free software / open source libraries. It includes libavcodec, an audio/video codec library used by several other projects, and libavformat, an audio/video container mux and demux library. The name of the project comes from the MPEG video standards group, together with "FF" for "fast forward".[2] The logo uses a zigzag pattern that shows how MPEG video codecs handle entropy encoding.

The project was started by Fabrice Bellard[citation needed] (using the pseudonym “Gerard Lantau”), and is now maintained by Michael Niedermayer. Many FFmpeg developers are also part of the MPlayer project, and FFmpeg is hosted at the MPlayer project server.

FFmpeg is developed under GNU/Linux, but it can be compiled under most operating systems, including Apple Inc. Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows and AmigaOS. Most computing platforms and microprocessor instruction set architecture are also supported, like x86 (IA-32 and x86-64), PPC (PowerPC), ARM, DEC Alpha, SPARC, and MIPS architecture.[3]

Recently version .5 of FFmpeg was released, although previously FFmpeg developers have always recommended using the latest neutral build from their source code Subversion version control system as development attempts to maintain a stable trunk.[4] Published under the GNU Lesser General Public License or GNU General Public License (depending on which sub-libraries one would include), FFmpeg is free software.

There are two video codecs and one video container invented in the FFmpeg project during its development. The two video codecs are the lossless "FFV1", and the lossless or lossy "Snow codec", for which a version 1.0 is still in development, and the video container is "NUT" which is also currently being actively developed.

Contents

Design

Diagram showing different applications (VDR, MPlayer, Xine and VideoLAN) using FFmpeg
Wiki letter w.svg This section requires expansion.

Components

The project is made of several components:

  • ffmpeg is a command line tool to convert one video file format to another. It can also grab and encode in real time from a TV card.
  • ffserver is an HTTP and RTSP multimedia streaming server for live broadcasts. It can also time shift live broadcast.
  • ffplay is a simple media player based on SDL and on the FFmpeg libraries.
  • libavcodec is a library containing all the FFmpeg audio/video encoders and decoders. Most codecs were developed from scratch to ensure best performance and high code reusability.
  • libavformat is a library containing demuxers and muxers for audio/video container formats.
  • libavutil is a helper library containing routines common to different parts of FFmpeg. This library include adler32, crc, md5, sha1, lzo decompressor, Base64 encoder/decoder, des encrypter/decrypter, rc4 encrypter/decrypter and aes encrypter/decrypter.
  • libpostproc is a library containing video postprocessing routines.
  • libswscale is a library containing video image scaling routines.
  • libavfilter is the substitute for vhook which allows the video to be modified or examined between the decoder and the encoder.

Codecs, formats and protocols supported

For more details on this topic, see libavcodec.

Formats

Format Description Encoding Decoding
3g2 3GP2 format Yes Yes
3gp 3GP format Yes Yes
4xm 4X Technologies format No Yes
IFF IFF format No Yes
MTV MTV format No Yes
RoQ id RoQ format Yes Yes
aac ADTS AAC Yes Yes
ac3 raw AC-3 Yes Yes
adts ADTS AAC Yes Yes
aiff Audio IFF Yes Yes
alaw PCM A-law format Yes Yes
amr 3GPP AMR file format Yes Yes
apc CRYO APC format No Yes
ape Monkey's Audio No Yes
asf ASF format Yes Yes
asf_stream ASF format Yes No
ass SSA/ASS format Yes Yes
au SUN AU format Yes Yes
avi AVI format Yes Yes
avm2 Flash 9 (AVM2) format Yes Yes
avs AVISynth No Yes
bethsoftvid Bethesda Softworks VID format No Yes
bfi Brute Force & Ignorance No Yes
c93 Interplay C93 No Yes
crc CRC testing format Yes No
daud D-Cinema audio format Yes Yes
dirac raw Dirac Yes Yes
dnxhd raw DNxHD (SMPTE VC-3) Yes Yes
dsicin Delphine Software International CIN format No Yes
dts raw DTS Yes Yes
dv DV video format Yes Yes
dvd MPEG-2 PS format (DVD VOB) Yes Yes
dxa DXA No Yes
ea Electronic Arts Multimedia Format No Yes
ea_cdata Electronic Arts cdata No Yes
eac3 raw E-AC-3 Yes Yes
f32be PCM 32 bit floating-point big-endian format Yes Yes
f32le PCM 32 bit floating-point little-endian format Yes Yes
f64be PCM 64 bit floating-point big-endian format Yes Yes
f64le PCM 64 bit floating-point little-endian format Yes Yes
ffm FFM (FFserver live feed) format Yes Yes
film_cpk Sega FILM/CPK format No Yes
flac raw FLAC Yes Yes
flic FLI/FLC/FLX animation format No Yes
flv FLV format Yes Yes
framecrc framecrc testing format Yes No
gif GIF Animation Yes No
gsm GSM No Yes
gxf GXF format Yes Yes
h261 raw H.261 Yes Yes
h263 raw H.263 Yes Yes
h264 raw H.264 video format Yes Yes
idcin id CIN format No Yes
image2 image2 sequence Yes Yes
image2pipe piped image2 sequence Yes Yes
ingenient Ingenient MJPEG No Yes
ipmovie Interplay MVE format No Yes
ipod iPod H.264 MP4 format Yes Yes
lmlm4 lmlm4 raw format No Yes
m4v raw MPEG-4 video format Yes Yes
matroska Matroska file format Yes Yes
mjpeg MJPEG video Yes Yes
mlp raw MLP No Yes
mm American Laser Games MM format No Yes
mmf mmf format Yes Yes
mov MOV format Yes Yes
mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2 QuickTime/MPEG-4/Motion JPEG 2000 format Yes Yes
mp2 MPEG audio layer 2 Yes Yes
mp3 MPEG audio layer 3 Yes Yes
mp4 MP4 format Yes Yes
mpc Musepack No Yes
mpc8 Musepack SV8 No Yes
mpeg MPEG-1 System format Yes Yes
mpeg1video MPEG video Yes Yes
mpeg2video MPEG-2 video Yes Yes
mpegts MPEG-2 transport stream format Yes Yes
mpegtsraw MPEG-2 raw transport stream format No Yes
mpegvideo MPEG video Yes Yes
mpjpeg Mime multipart JPEG format Yes No
msnwctcp MSN TCP Webcam stream No Yes
mulaw PCM mu-law format Yes Yes
mvi Motion Pixels MVI format No Yes
mxf Material eXchange Format Yes Yes
nsv NullSoft Video format No Yes
null null video format Yes No
nut NUT format Yes Yes
nuv NuppelVideo format No Yes
ogg Ogg Yes Yes
oma Sony OpenMG audio No Yes
psp PSP MP4 format Yes Yes
psxstr Sony Playstation STR format No Yes
pva TechnoTrend PVA file and stream format No Yes
rawvideo raw video format Yes Yes
rcv VC-1 test bitstream Yes No
redir Redirector format No Yes
rl2 rl2 format No Yes
rm RM format Yes Yes
rpl RPL/ARMovie format No Yes
rtp RTP output format Yes No
rtsp RTSP input format No Yes
s16be PCM signed 16 bit big-endian format Yes Yes
s16le PCM signed 16 bit little-endian format Yes Yes
s24be PCM signed 24 bit big-endian format Yes Yes
s24le PCM signed 24 bit little-endian format Yes Yes
s32be PCM signed 32 bit big-endian format Yes Yes
s32le PCM signed 32 bit little-endian format Yes Yes
s8 PCM signed 8 bit format Yes Yes
sdp SDP No Yes
shn raw Shorten No Yes
siff Beam Software SIFF No Yes
smk Smacker video No Yes
sol Sierra SOL format No Yes
svcd MPEG-2 PS format (VOB) Yes Yes
swf Flash format Yes Yes
thp THP No Yes
tiertexseq Tiertex Limited SEQ format No Yes
tta True Audio No Yes
txd txd format No Yes
u16be PCM unsigned 16 bit big-endian format Yes Yes
u16le PCM unsigned 16 bit little-endian format Yes Yes
u24be PCM unsigned 24 bit big-endian format Yes Yes
u24le PCM unsigned 24 bit little-endian format Yes Yes
u32be PCM unsigned 32 bit big-endian format Yes Yes
u32le PCM unsigned 32 bit little-endian format Yes Yes
u8 PCM unsigned 8 bit format Yes Yes
vc1 raw VC-1 No Yes
vc1test VC-1 test bitstream format No Yes
vcd MPEG-1 System format (VCD) Yes Yes
vfwcap VFW video capture No Yes
vmd Sierra VMD format No Yes
vob MPEG-2 PS format (VOB) Yes Yes
voc Creative Voice file format Yes Yes
vqf TwinVQ format No Yes
wav WAV format Yes Yes
wc3movie Wing Commander III movie format No Yes
wsaud Westwood Studios audio format No Yes
wsvqa Westwood Studios VQA format No Yes
wv WavPack No Yes
xa Maxis XA File Format No Yes
yuv4mpegpipe YUV4MPEG pipe format Yes Yes

Codecs

Format Description Type Encode Decode Slice Direct-Render Truncated Input
4xm 4X Movie Video No Yes No No No
8bps QuickTime 8BPS video Video No Yes No Yes No
8svx_exp 8SVX exponential Audio No Yes No No No
8svx_fib 8SVX fibonacci Audio No Yes No No No
aac Advanced Audio Coding Audio No Yes No No No
aasc Autodesk RLE Video No Yes No Yes No
ac3 ATSC A/52A (AC-3) Audio Yes Yes No No No
adpcm_4xm 4X Movie ADPCM Audio No Yes No No No
adpcm_adx SEGA CRI ADX Audio Yes Yes No No No
adpcm_ct Creative Technology ADPCM Audio No Yes No No No
adpcm_ea Electronic Arts ADPCM Audio No Yes No No No
adpcm_ea_maxis_xa Electronic Arts Maxis CDROM XA ADPCM Audio No Yes No No No
adpcm_ea_r1 Electronic Arts R1 ADPCM Audio No Yes No No No
adpcm_ea_r2 Electronic Arts R2 ADPCM Audio No Yes No No No
adpcm_ea_r3 Electronic Arts R3 ADPCM Audio No Yes No No No
adpcm_ea_xas Electronic Arts XAS ADPCM Audio No Yes No No No
adpcm_ima_amv IMA AMV ADPCM Audio No Yes No No No
adpcm_ima_dk3 IMA Duck DK3 ADPCM Audio No Yes No No No
adpcm_ima_dk4 IMA Duck DK4 ADPCM Audio No Yes No No No
adpcm_ima_ea_eacs IMA Electronic Arts EACS ADPCM Audio No Yes No No No
adpcm_ima_ea_sead IMA Electronic Arts SEAD ADPCM Audio No Yes No No No
adpcm_ima_qt IMA QuickTime ADPCM Audio Yes Yes No No No
adpcm_ima_smjpeg IMA Loki SDL MJPEG ADPCM Audio No Yes No No No
adpcm_ima_wav IMA Wav ADPCM Audio Yes Yes No No No
adpcm_ima_ws IMA Westwood ADPCM Audio No Yes No No No
adpcm_ms Microsoft ADPCM Audio Yes Yes No No No
adpcm_sbpro_2 Sound Blaster Pro 2-bit ADPCM Audio No Yes No No No
adpcm_sbpro_3 Sound Blaster Pro 2.6-bit ADPCM Audio No Yes No No No
adpcm_sbpro_4 Sound Blaster Pro 4-bit ADPCM Audio No Yes No No No
adpcm_swf Shockwave Flash ADPCM Audio Yes Yes No No No
adpcm_thp Nintendo Gamecube THP ADPCM Audio No Yes No No No
adpcm_xa CDROM XA ADPCM Audio No Yes No No No
adpcm_yamaha Yamaha ADPCM Audio Yes Yes No No No
alac ALAC (Apple Lossless Audio Codec) Audio Yes Yes No No No
amv AMV Video Video No Yes No No No
ape Monkey's Audio Audio No Yes No No No
asv1 ASUS V1 Video Yes Yes No Yes No
asv2 ASUS V2 Video Yes Yes No Yes No
atrac3 Atrac 3 (Adaptive TRansform Acoustic Coding 3) Audio No Yes No No No
avs AVS (Audio Video Standard) video Video No Yes No Yes No
bethsoftvid Bethesda VID video Video No Yes No No No
bfi Brute Force & Ignorance Video No Yes No No No
bmp BMP image Video Yes Yes No No No
c93 Interplay C93 Video No Yes No Yes No
camstudio CamStudio Video No Yes No Yes No
camtasia TechSmith Screen Capture Codec Video No Yes No Yes No
cavs Chinese AVS video (AVS1-P2, JiZhun profile) Video No Yes No Yes No
cinepak Cinepak Video No Yes No Yes No
cljr Cirrus Logic AccuPak Video No Yes No Yes No
cook COOK Audio No Yes No No No
cyuv Creative YUV (CYUV) Video No Yes No Yes No
dca DCA (DTS Coherent Acoustics) Audio No Yes No No No
dnxhd VC3/DNxHD Video Yes Yes No Yes No
dsicinaudio Delphine Software International CIN audio Audio No Yes No No No
dsicinvideo Delphine Software International CIN video Video No Yes No Yes No
dvbsub DVB subtitles Subtitle Yes Yes No No No
dvdsub DVD subtitles Subtitle Yes Yes No No No
dvvideo DV (Digital Video) Video Yes Yes No Yes No
dxa Feeble Files/ScummVM DXA Video No Yes No No No
eac3 ATSC A/52B (AC-3, E-AC-3) Audio No Yes No No No
eacmv Electronic Arts CMV Video Video No Yes No Yes No
eatgq Electronic Arts TGQ Video Video No Yes No Yes No
eatgv Electronic Arts TGV Video Video No Yes No No No
escape124 Escape 124 Video No Yes No Yes No
ffv1 FFmpeg codec #1 Video Yes Yes No Yes No
ffvhuff Huffyuv FFmpeg variant Video Yes Yes Yes Yes No
flac FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec) Audio Yes Yes No No No
flashsv Flash Screen Video Video Yes Yes No Yes No
flic Autodesk Animator Flic video Video No Yes No Yes No
flv Flash Video Video Yes Yes Yes Yes No
fraps Fraps Video No Yes No Yes No
g726 G.726 ADPCM Audio Yes Yes No No No
gif GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) Video Yes Yes No No No
h261 H.261 Video Yes Yes No Yes No
h263 H.263 Video Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
h263i H.263i Video No Yes Yes Yes No
h263p H.263+ / H.263 version 2 Video Yes No No No No
h264 H.264 / AVC / MPEG-4 AVC / MPEG-4 part 10 Video No Yes No Yes No
huffyuv Huffyuv / HuffYUV Video Yes Yes Yes Yes No
idcinvideo id Quake II CIN video Video No Yes No Yes No
imc IMC (Intel Music Coder) Audio No Yes No No No
indeo2 Intel Indeo 2 Video No Yes No Yes No
indeo3 Intel Indeo 3 Video No Yes No No No
interplay_dpcm Interplay DPCM Audio No Yes No No No
interplayvideo Interplay MVE Video Video No Yes No Yes No
jpegls JPEG-LS Video Yes Yes No Yes No
kmvc Karl Morton's video codec Video No Yes No No No
libfaac libfaac AAC (Advanced Audio Codec) Audio Yes No No No No
libgsm libgsm GSM Audio Yes Yes No No No
libgsm_ms libgsm GSM Microsoft variant Audio Yes Yes No No No
libmp3lame libmp3lame MP3 (MPEG audio layer 3) Audio Yes No No No No
libschroedinger libschroedinger Dirac 2.2 Video Yes Yes No No No
libspeex libspeex Audio No Yes No No No
libtheora libtheora Theora Video Yes No No No No
libvorbis libvorbis Vorbis Audio Yes No No No No
libx264 libx264 H.264 / AVC / MPEG-4 AVC / MPEG-4 part 10 Video Yes No No No No
libxvid libxvidcore MPEG-4 part 2 Video Yes No No No No
ljpeg Lossless JPEG Video Yes No No No No
loco LOCO Video No Yes No Yes No
mace3 MACE (Macintosh Audio Compression/Expansion) 3:1 Audio No Yes No No No
mace6 MACE (Macintosh Audio Compression/Expansion) 6:1 Audio No Yes No No No
mdec Sony PlayStation MDEC (Motion DECoder) Video No Yes No Yes No
mimic Mimic Video No Yes No Yes No
mjpeg MJPEG (Motion JPEG) Video Yes Yes No Yes No
mjpegb Apple MJPEG-B Video No Yes No Yes No
mlp Meridian Lossless Packing Audio No Yes No No No
mmvideo American Laser Games MM Video Video No Yes No Yes No
motionpixels Motion Pixels Video Video No Yes No Yes No
mp2 MP2 (MPEG audio layer 2) Audio Yes Yes No No No
mp3 MP3 (MPEG audio layer 3) Audio No Yes No No No
mp3adu ADU (Application Data Unit) MP3 (MPEG audio layer 3) Audio No Yes No No No
mp3on4 MP3onMP4 Audio No Yes No No No
mpc7 Musepack SV7 Audio No Yes No No No
mpc8 Musepack SV8 Audio No Yes No No No
mpeg1video MPEG-1 video Video Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
mpeg2video MPEG-2 video Video Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
mpeg4 MPEG-4 part 2 Video Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
mpegvideo MPEG-1 video Video No Yes Yes Yes Yes
msmpeg4 MPEG-4 part 2 Microsoft variant version 3 Video Yes Yes Yes Yes No
msmpeg4v1 MPEG-4 part 2 Microsoft variant version 1 Video Yes Yes Yes Yes No
msmpeg4v2 MPEG-4 part 2 Microsoft variant version 2 Video Yes Yes Yes Yes No
msrle Microsoft RLE Video No Yes No Yes No
msvideo1 Microsoft Video 1 Video No Yes No Yes No
mszh LCL (LossLess Codec Library) MSZH Video No Yes No Yes No
nellymoser Nellymoser Asao Codec Audio Yes Yes No No No
nuv NuppelVideo Video No Yes No Yes No
pam PAM (Portable AnyMap) image Video Yes Yes No No No
pbm PBM (Portable BitMap) image Video Yes Yes No No No
pcm_alaw A-law PCM Audio Yes Yes No No No
pcm_dvd 24-bit big-endian PCM Audio No Yes No No No
pcm_f32be 32-bit floating point big-endian PCM Audio Yes Yes No No No
pcm_f32le 32-bit floating point little-endian PCM Audio Yes Yes No No No
pcm_f64be 64-bit floating point big-endian PCM Audio Yes Yes No No No
pcm_f64le 64-bit floating point little-endian PCM Audio Yes Yes No No No
pcm_mulaw mu-law PCM Audio Yes Yes No No No
pcm_s16be signed 16-bit big-endian PCM Audio Yes Yes No No No
pcm_s16le signed 16-bit little-endian PCM Audio Yes Yes No No No
pcm_s16le_planar 16-bit little-endian planar PCM Audio No Yes No No No
pcm_s24be signed 24-bit big-endian PCM Audio Yes Yes No No No
pcm_s24daud D-Cinema audio signed 24-bit PCM Audio Yes Yes No No No
pcm_s24le signed 24-bit little-endian PCM Audio Yes Yes No No No
pcm_s32be signed 32-bit big-endian PCM Audio Yes Yes No No No
pcm_s32le signed 32-bit little-endian PCM Audio Yes Yes No No No
pcm_s8 signed 8-bit PCM Audio Yes Yes No No No
pcm_u16be unsigned 16-bit big-endian PCM Audio Yes Yes No No No
pcm_u16le unsigned 16-bit little-endian PCM Audio Yes Yes No No No
pcm_u24be unsigned 24-bit big-endian PCM Audio Yes Yes No No No
pcm_u24le unsigned 24-bit little-endian PCM Audio Yes Yes No No No
pcm_u32be unsigned 32-bit big-endian PCM Audio Yes Yes No No No
pcm_u32le unsigned 32-bit little-endian PCM Audio Yes Yes No No No
pcm_u8 unsigned 8-bit PCM Audio Yes Yes No No No
pcm_zork Zork PCM Audio Yes Yes No No No
pcx PC Paintbrush PCX image Video No Yes No No No
pgm PGM (Portable GrayMap) image Video Yes Yes No No No
pgmyuv PGMYUV (Portable GrayMap YUV) image Video Yes Yes No No No
png PNG image Video Yes Yes No No No
ppm PPM (Portable PixelMap) image Video Yes Yes No No No
ptx V.Flash PTX image Video No Yes No No No
qcelp QCELP / PureVoice Audio No Yes No No No
qdm2 QDesign Music Codec 2 Audio No Yes No No No
qdraw Apple QuickDraw Video No Yes No Yes No
qpeg Q-team QPEG Video No Yes No Yes No
qtrle QuickTime Animation (RLE) video Video Yes Yes No Yes No
rawvideo raw video Video Yes Yes No No No
real_144 RealAudio 1.0 (14.4K) Audio No Yes No No No
real_288 RealAudio 2.0 (28.8K) Audio No Yes No No No
rl2 RL2 video Video No Yes No Yes No
roq_dpcm id RoQ DPCM Audio Yes Yes No No No
roqvideo id RoQ video Video Yes Yes No Yes No
rpza QuickTime video (RPZA) Video No Yes No Yes No
rv10 RealVideo 1.0 Video Yes Yes No Yes No
rv20 RealVideo 2.0 Video Yes Yes No Yes No
rv30 RealVideo 3.0 Video No Yes No Yes No
rv40 RealVideo 4.0 Video No Yes No Yes No
sgi SGI image Video Yes Yes No No No
shorten Shorten Audio No Yes No No No
smackaud Smacker audio Audio No Yes No No No
smackvid Smacker video Video No Yes No No No
smc QuickTime Graphics (SMC) Video No Yes No Yes No
snow Snow Video Yes Yes No No No
sol_dpcm Sol DPCM Audio No Yes No No No
sonic Sonic Audio Yes Yes No No No
sonicls Sonic lossless Audio Yes No No No No
sp5x Sunplus JPEG (SP5X) Video No Yes No Yes No
sunrast Sun Rasterfile image Video No Yes No No No
svq1 Sorenson Vector Quantizer 1 Video Yes Yes No Yes No
svq3 Sorenson Vector Quantizer 3 Video No Yes Yes Yes No
targa Truevision Targa image Video Yes Yes No No No
theora Theora Video No Yes No No No
thp Nintendo Gamecube THP video Video No Yes No Yes No
tiertexseqvideo Tiertex Limited SEQ video Video No Yes No Yes No
tiff TIFF image Video Yes Yes No No No
truemotion1 Duck TrueMotion 1.0 Video No Yes No Yes No
truemotion2 Duck TrueMotion 2.0 Video No Yes No Yes No
truespeech DSP Group TrueSpeech Audio No Yes No No No
tta True Audio Audio No Yes No No No
txd Renderware TXD (TeXture Dictionary) image Video No Yes No No No
ultimotion IBM UltiMotion Video No Yes No Yes No
vb Beam Software VB Video No Yes No No No
vc1 SMPTE VC-1 Video No Yes No No No
vcr1 ATI VCR1 Video No Yes No Yes No
vmdaudio Sierra VMD audio Audio No Yes No No No
vmdvideo Sierra VMD video Video No Yes No Yes No
vmnc VMware Screen Codec / VMware Video Video No Yes No No No
vorbis Vorbis Audio Yes Yes No No No
vp3 On2 VP3 Video No Yes No No No
vp5 On2 VP5 Video No Yes No Yes No
vp6 On2 VP6 Video No Yes No Yes No
vp6a On2 VP6 (Flash version, with alpha channel) Video No Yes No Yes No
vp6f On2 VP6 (Flash version) Video No Yes No Yes No
vqavideo Westwood Studios VQA (Vector Quantized Animation) video Video No Yes No Yes No
wavpack WavPack Audio No Yes No No No
wmav1 Windows Media Audio 1 Audio Yes Yes No No No
wmav2 Windows Media Audio 2 Audio Yes Yes No No No
wmv1 Windows Media Video 7 Video Yes Yes Yes Yes No
wmv2 Windows Media Video 8 Video Yes Yes Yes Yes No
wmv3 Windows Media Video 9 Video No Yes No No No
wnv1 Winnov WNV1 Video No Yes No Yes No
ws_snd1 Westwood Audio (SND1) Audio No Yes No No No
xan_dpcm Xan DPCM Audio No Yes No No No
xan_wc3 Wing Commander III / Xan Video No Yes No Yes No
xl Miro VideoXL Video No Yes No Yes No
xsub XSUB Subtitle No Yes No No No
zlib LCL (LossLess Codec Library) ZLIB Video Yes Yes No Yes No
zmbv Zip Motion Blocks Video Video Yes Yes No No No
Format Description Type Encode Decode Slice Direct-Render Truncated Input

Codecs with the origin in the project:

The FFmpeg developers have implemented among others:

The default MPEG-4 codec used by FFmpeg for encoding has the FourCC of FMP4.

Formats

Protocols

Projects using FFmpeg

FFmpeg is used by many open source projects, including ffmpeg2theora, VLC, MPlayer, Handbrake, Blender, Google Chrome and others.[13]

Multimedia frameworks using FFmpeg

Legal status of codecs

FFmpeg contains more than 100 codecs [14] most of which do not just store uncompressed data. At least all codecs that compress information could be claimed by patent holders.[15] Such claims may be enforceable in countries like the United States which have implemented software patents, but are considered unenforceable or void in countries that have not implemented software patents. Furthermore, many of these codecs are only released under terms that forbid reverse engineering, even for purposes of interoperability. However, these terms of use are forbidden in certain countries. For example, some European Union nations have not implemented software patents and/or have laws expressly allowing reverse engineering for purposes of interoperability.[16]

Most GNU/Linux distributions include a stripped version of FFmpeg only including certain codecs to avoid legal complications, instead providing such software at unofficial repositories.[citation needed]

See also

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References

  1. ^ FFmpeg Documentation
  2. ^ Bellard, Fabrice (18 February 2006). "FFmpeg naming and logo". FFmpeg developer mailing list. Mplayer website. http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2006-February/007707.html. Retrieved 2007-03-29. 
  3. ^ FFmpeg Automated Testing Environment
  4. ^ "FFmpeg Download and SVN". FFmpeg website. http://ffmpeg.org/download.html. Retrieved 2008-03-22. 
  5. ^ a b c d e f g banan (17 April 2007). "Changelog". FFmpeg trunk SVN. FFmpeg website. http://svn.mplayerhq.hu/ffmpeg/trunk/Changelog?revision=8747&view=marku. Retrieved 2007-04-26. 
  6. ^ a b banan (7 May 2007). "FFmpeg development mailing list". FFmpeg development. FFmpeg website. http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2007-May/028761.html. Retrieved 2007-06-01. 
  7. ^ vitor (2008-04-13). "FFmpeg development mailing list". FFmpeg development. FFmpeg website. https://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/ffmpeg-cvslog/2008-April/013231.html. Retrieved 2008-04-14. 
  8. ^ vitor (2008-03-30). "FFmpeg development mailing list". FFmpeg development. FFmpeg website. https://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/ffmpeg-cvslog/2008-March/012963.html. Retrieved 2008-03-30. 
  9. ^ faust3 (2008-03-21). "FFmpeg development mailing list". FFmpeg development. FFmpeg website. http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/ffmpeg-cvslog/2008-March/012799.html. Retrieved 2008-03-21. 
  10. ^ benoit (2008-04-14). "FFmpeg development mailing list". FFmpeg development. FFmpeg website. https://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/ffmpeg-cvslog/2008-April/013245.html. Retrieved 2008-04-14. 
  11. ^ ramiro (2008-03-18). "FFmpeg development mailing list". FFmpeg development. FFmpeg website. http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/ffmpeg-cvslog/2008-March/012708.html. Retrieved 2008-03-18. 
  12. ^ banan (2008-06-08). "FFmpeg development mailing list". FFmpeg development. FFmpeg website. http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/ffmpeg-cvslog/2008-June/014417.html. Retrieved 2008-06-08. 
  13. ^ http://ffmpeg.org/projects.html
  14. ^ "Codecs list". http://ffmpeg.org/general.html#SEC8. 
  15. ^ "Legal information on FFmpeg's website". http://ffmpeg.org/legal.html. 
  16. ^ . Council Directive 91/250/EEC of 14 May 1991 on the legal protection of computer programs. 

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