FFmpeg

Command-line toolkit to record, convert, and stream audio and video

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FFmpeg is a complete, cross-platform solution for decoding, encoding, transcoding, muxing, filtering, and streaming audio and video. Its libraries power a huge range of media software and services.

Key features

  • Transcodes between nearly all media formats
  • Powerful filter graphs for audio and video
  • Streaming input and output
  • libav* libraries for embedding

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