What is "ffmpeg"

Collection of tools to record, play, convert, mix, encode and decode streams audio and video in various formats. The Ffmpeg is composed of a collection of free software and open source libraries.

The most notable components are:

• libavcodec - video, audio and subtitle codec used by many other projects
• libavformat - (de)muxing video and audio caption
• ffmpeg - a command line program for transcoding multimedia files
• ffprobe - a command line program to view detailed information about multimedia files

Ffmpeg is published under the GNU Lesser General Public License 2.1+ or GNU General Public License 2+ (depending on which options are enabled).

See the documentation of Ffmpeg and the Wiki of the Ffmpeg for additional information.