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Libav
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Libav is a collection of libraries and tools to process multimedia content
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such as audio, video, subtitles and related metadata.
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## Libraries
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* `libavcodec` provides implementation of a wider range of codecs.
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* `libavformat` implements streaming protocols, container formats and basic I/O access.
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* `libavutil` includes hashers, decompressors and miscellaneous utility functions.
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* `libavfilter` provides a mean to alter decoded Audio and Video through chain of filters.
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* `libavdevice` provides an abstraction to access capture and playback devices.
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* `libavresample` implements audio mixing and resampling routines.
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* `libswscale` implements color conversion and scaling routines.
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## Tools
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* [avconv](http://libav.org/avconv.html) is a command line toolbox to
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manipulate, convert and stream multimedia content.
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* [avplay](http://libav.org/avplay.html) is a minimalistic multimedia player.
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* [avprobe](http://libav.org/avprobe.html) is a simple analisys tool to inspect
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multimedia content.
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* Additional small tools such as `aviocat`, `ismindex` and `qt-faststart`.
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## Documentation
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The offline documentation is available in the **doc/** directory.
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The online documentation is available in the main [website](http://libav.org)
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and in the [wiki](http://wiki.libav.org).
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### Examples
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Conding examples are available in the **doc/example** directory.
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## License
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Libav codebase is mainly LGPL-licensed with optional components licensed under
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GPL. Please refer to the LICENSE file for detailed information.
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