Open source multimedia suite for conversion, playback, profiling, and streaming.
Open source multimedia suite for conversion, playback, profiling, and streaming.
FFmpeg Platforms
Windows
Linux
Mac
FFmpeg Video and Screenshots
FFmpeg Overview
FFmpeg is an open source project that develops libraries and programs for handling multimedia data. FFmpeg is the home to libavcodec, a codec library used by a large spectrum of programs, and libavformat, a mux and demux library for containers. The project develops 4 command-line programs; ffmpeg, the central tool for transcoding multimedia files, as well as ffplay, a simple media player for previewing files, ffprobe, a profiling tool for scanning containers, and ffserver, a network streaming server.
FFmpeg is published under the GNU Lesser General Public License 2.1+ or GNU General Public License 2+ (depending on which options are enabled).