About FFmpeg

The project is made of several components:

• ffmpeg is a command line tool to convert multimedia files between formats.
• ffserver is a multimedia streaming server for live broadcasts.
• ffplay is a simple media player based on SDL and the FFmpeg libraries.
• libavutil is a library containing functions for simplifying programming, including random number generators, data structures, mathematics routines and much more.
• libavcodec is a library containing decoders and encoders for audio/video codecs.
• libavformat is a library containing demuxers and muxers for multimedia container formats.
• libavdevice is a library containing input and output devices for grabbing from and rendering to many common multimedia input/output software frameworks, including Video4Linux, Video4Linux2, VfW, and ALSA.
• libswscale is a library performing highly optimized image scaling and color space/pixel format conversion operations.