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It is not documented to be safe and in any case it is nonsense: Currently av_strdup(NULL) returns NULL and in order to distinguish this from a genuine allocation failure, opt_copy_elem() checked afterwards whether src was actually NULL. But then one can simply check in advance whether one should call av_strdup() at all. set_string() was even worse and returned ENOMEM in case the value to be duplicated is NULL; this only worked because av_opt_set_defaults2() does not check the return value at all (given that it can't propagate it). These two places account for 389114 of 390356 av_strdup(NULL) calls during one FATE run. Signed-off-by: Andreas Rheinhardt <andreas.rheinhardt@outlook.com>
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.