Libavcodec

Infobox Software
name = libavcodec



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developer = FFmpeg team
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latest release version = 51.71.0
latest release date = 2008-09-01
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programming language = C
operating system = Cross-platform
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genre = Multimedia Library
license = LGPL 2.1 or later
website = http://www.ffmpeg.org/

libavcodec is a free software/open source LGPL-licensed library of codecs for encoding and decoding video and audio data; it is written in the C programming language. It is part of the FFmpeg-project and many free/open source applications rely on it.

Implemented video codecs

* AVS (decoding only)
* BFIcite web | author = benoit | url = https://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/ffmpeg-cvslog/2008-April/013362.html | title = FFmpeg development mailing list | publisher = FFmpeg website | work = FFmpeg development | date = 2008-04-18 | accessdate = 2008-04-18]
* CamStudio CSCD
* Cinepak
* Creative YUV (CYUV)
* DNxHD
* Flash Screen Video
* FFV1
* H.261cite web | author = banan | url = http://svn.mplayerhq.hu/ffmpeg/trunk/Changelog?revision=8747&view=marku | title = Changelog | publisher = FFmpeg website | work = FFmpeg trunk SVN | date = 17 April 2007 | accessdate = 2007-04-26]
* H.263
* H.264/MPEG-4 AVC (decoding only)
* Huffyuv
* id Software RoQ Video
* Intel Indeo 2 (decoding only)
* Intel Indeo 3 (decoding only)
* LOCO (decoding only)
* Mimiccite web | author = ramiro | url = http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/ffmpeg-cvslog/2008-March/012707.html | title = FFmpeg development mailing list | publisher = FFmpeg website | work = FFmpeg development | date = 2008-03-18 | accessdate = 2008-03-18]
* MJPEG
* MPEG-1
* MPEG-2/H.262
* MPEG-4 Part 2 (the format used for example by the popular DivX and Xvid codecs)
* Apple Computer QuickDraw (decoding only)
* Quicktime Graphics SMC
* RealVideo RV10
* RealVideo RV20
* RL2cite web | author = faust3 | url = http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/ffmpeg-cvslog/2008-March/012799.html | title = FFmpeg development mailing list | publisher = FFmpeg website | work = FFmpeg development | date = 2008-03-21 | accessdate = 2008-03-21]
* Smacker video
* Snow
* Sorenson SVQ1
* Sorenson SVQ3 (decoding only)
* Theora (decoding only)
* Asus V1
* Asus V2
* Sierra VMD Video
* VMware VMnc (decoding only)
* Duck TrueMotion v1
* Duck TrueMotion v2
* On2 VP3 (decoding only)
* On2 VP5 (decoding only)
* On2 TrueMotion VP6 (decoding only)
* Westwood Studios VQA
* Microsoft WMV — version 7 and 8
* Microsoft WMV — version 9 (decoding only)
* Wing Commander/Xan Video (decoding only)

Implemented audio codecs

* 8SVXcite web | author = vitor | url = https://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/ffmpeg-cvslog/2008-March/012962.html | title = FFmpeg development mailing list | publisher = FFmpeg website | work = FFmpeg development | date = 2008-03-30 | accessdate = 2008-03-30]
* AAC (decoding only)cite web | author = superdump | url = http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/ffmpeg-cvslog/2008-August/016286.html | title = FFmpeg development mailing list | publisher = FFmpeg website | work = FFmpeg development | date = 2008-08-21 | accessdate = 2008-08-21]
* AC-3
* Apple Losslesscite web | author = jai_menon | url = http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/ffmpeg-cvslog/2008-August/016243.html | title = FFmpeg development mailing list | publisher = FFmpeg website | work = FFmpeg development | date = 2008-08-19 | accessdate = 2008-08-21]
* ATRAC3 (decoding only)
* Cook Codec (decoding only)
* EA ADPCMcite web | author = benoit | url = https://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/ffmpeg-cvslog/2008-April/013245.html | title = FFmpeg development mailing list | publisher = FFmpeg website | work = FFmpeg development | date = 2008-04-14 | accessdate = 2008-04-14]
* E-AC-3 (decoding only)
* FLAC
* Intel Music Coder (decoding only)
* Meridian Lossless Packing (decoding only)cite web | author = ramiro | url = https://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/ffmpeg-cvslog/2008-July/014907.html | title = FFmpeg development mailing list | publisher = FFmpeg website | work = FFmpeg development | date = 2008-07-04 | accessdate = 2008-07-04]
* Monkey's Audio (decoding only)
* MP2
* MP3 (native decoder, encoding through LAME)
* Nellymoser Asao Codec in Flash
* QDM2 (decoding only)
* RealAudio 1.0 (decoding only)
* RealAudio 2.0 (decoding only)
* Shorten (decoding only)
* Truespeech (decoding only)
* TTA (decoding only)
* TXDcite web | author = banan | url = http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2007-May/028761.html | title = FFmpeg development mailing list | publisher = FFmpeg website | work = FFmpeg development | date = 7 May 2007 | accessdate = 2007-06-01]
* Vorbis
* WavPack (decoding only)
* Windows Media Audio 1
* Windows Media Audio 2

Implemented image codecs

* BMP
* GIF
* PNG
* JPEG
* V.Flash PTX
* SGI
* Sun Rasterfile
* FLIC (decoding only)
* TIFF
* PNM

Libraries that depend on libavcodec

*libavformat (part of FFmpeg)
*libgegl (optional. part of GEGL)
**libgimp (part of GIMP)
*libmpcodecs (part of MPlayer)
**libmpdemux (part of MPlayer)
*libvlc (part of VLC)

Applications using libavcodec

Video players

*GOM Player (has license issue)
*FFplay
*MPlayer
*PSPTube - network movie player for PSP
*VLC
*xine

Audio players

*Audacious (Includes only ffape code in audacious-plugins)
*Rockbox (Includes only FLAC code)
*XMMS2

Multimedia players

*Gnash
*Moonlight
*swfdec

Video editors

*Avidemux
*Cinelerra
*Kdenlive
*Kino

Audio editors

*Audacity (since 1.3.6)

Video converters

*FFmpeg
*MEncoder
*Transcode

Audio converters

*BeSweet

Graphic libraries

*GEGL

VoIP

*Ekiga
*QuteCom

Multimedia Streaming Server

*FFserver
*VLC

Multimedia frameworks

*ac3encode - a DirectShow AC3 encoder
*ffdshow (wraps libavcodec as a DirectShow filter and adds postprocessing to improve image quality; once installed, it is automatically used by all Windows DirectShow video players, such as Windows Media Player, Media Player Classic, Winamp, Zoom Player etc.)
*ffdshow tryouts
*GStreamer
*Perian

Metadata Manager

*GNU libextractor (Includes some libavcodec's code)

Others

*AtGLas
*avifile
*Avview
*bbplay
*BeOS FFmpeg decoders
*BeOS HybridDivx
*Blender
*Chameleo
*Chroma Player
*chronictv
*CorePlayer
*D-Volution
*DivXray
*DivXtoDVD
*Dr. Divx
*DreaMule (Uses a layer called "SimpleVLC")
*dvbcut
*DVDFlick
*Easy VOB 2 DivX
*ffmpeg-php
*ffmpeg2theora
*FFMPEG for QT
*ffmpegX for Mac OS X
*ffmpegX Companion
*FFRecord
*fftv
*FFusion - an alternative codec suite for Mac OS X
*FMJ
*Fobs
*FreeJ
* [http://frogger.rules.pl/ Frogger]
* [http://gallery.sourceforge.net/ Gallery]
*gmerlin
*GPAC
*HandBrake
*HTS (Home Theater System)
*Hyperion
*ImTOO DVD Ripper
*Internet DJ Console
*Jffmpeg
*K3b
*OpenCV

References