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The cached bitstream reader was originally written by Alexandra Hájková for Libav, with significant input from Kostya Shishkov and Luca Barbato. It was then committed to FFmpeg in ca079b09549, by merging it with the implementation of the current bitstream reader. This merge makes the code of get_bits.h significantly harder to read, since it now contains two different bitstream readers interleaved with #ifdefs. Additionally, the code was committed without proper authorship attribution. This commit re-adds the cached bitstream reader as a standalone header, as it was originally developed. It will be made useful in following commits. Integration by Anton Khirnov. Signed-off-by: Anton Khirnov <anton@khirnov.net>
FFmpeg README
FFmpeg is a collection of libraries and tools to process multimedia content such as audio, video, subtitles and related metadata.
Libraries
libavcodecprovides implementation of a wider range of codecs.libavformatimplements streaming protocols, container formats and basic I/O access.libavutilincludes hashers, decompressors and miscellaneous utility functions.libavfilterprovides means to alter decoded audio and video through a directed graph of connected filters.libavdeviceprovides an abstraction to access capture and playback devices.libswresampleimplements audio mixing and resampling routines.libswscaleimplements color conversion and scaling routines.
Tools
- ffmpeg is a command line toolbox to manipulate, convert and stream multimedia content.
- ffplay is a minimalistic multimedia player.
- ffprobe is a simple analysis tool to inspect multimedia content.
- Additional small tools such as
aviocat,ismindexandqt-faststart.
Documentation
The offline documentation is available in the doc/ directory.
The online documentation is available in the main website and in the wiki.
Examples
Coding examples are available in the doc/examples directory.
License
FFmpeg codebase is mainly LGPL-licensed with optional components licensed under GPL. Please refer to the LICENSE file for detailed information.
Contributing
Patches should be submitted to the ffmpeg-devel mailing list using
git format-patch or git send-email. Github pull requests should be
avoided because they are not part of our review process and will be ignored.