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This structure served as a bridge between data pointers and frames, but it suffers from several limitations: - it is not refcounted and data must be copied to every time - it cannot be expanded without ABI break due to being used on the stack - its functions are just wrappers to imgutils which add a layer of unneeded indirection, and maintenance burden - it allows hacks like embedding uncompressed data in packets - its use is often confusing to our users AVFrame provides a much better API, and, if a full blown frame is not needed, it is just as simple and more straightfoward to use data and linesize arrays directly. Signed-off-by: Vittorio Giovara <vittorio.giovara@gmail.com>
Libav
Libav 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 a mean to alter decoded Audio and Video through chain of filters.libavdeviceprovides an abstraction to access capture and playback devices.libavresampleimplements audio mixing and resampling routines.libswscaleimplements color conversion and scaling routines.
Tools
- avconv is a command line toolbox to manipulate, convert and stream multimedia content.
- avplay is a minimalistic multimedia player.
- avprobe is a simple analisys 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
Conding examples are available in the doc/example directory.
License
Libav codebase is mainly LGPL-licensed with optional components licensed under GPL. Please refer to the LICENSE file for detailed information.