

The logo uses a zigzag pattern that shows how MPEG video codecs handle entropy encoding. The name of the project is inspired by the MPEG video standards group, together with "FF" for "fast forward". FFmpeg includes libavcodec, an audio/video codec library used by several other projects, libavformat (Lavf), an audio/video container mux and demux library, and the ffmpeg command line program for transcoding multimedia files.įFmpeg is published under the GNU Lesser General Public License 2.1+ or GNU General Public License 2+ (depending on which options are enabled). Unredistributable if compiled as such įFmpeg is a free software project that produces libraries and programs for handling multimedia data.

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