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The earlier documentation claimed that av_interleaved_write_frame() always orders by dts, which is not necessarily true when using muxers with custom interleavement functions or the audio_preload option. Furthermore, the documentation stated that libavformat takes ownership of the reference of the provided packet (if it is refcounted) and that the caller may not access the data through this reference after the function returns. This suggests that the returned packet is not blank, but instead still contains some set, but invalid fields, which implies that it would be dangerous to unreference this packet again. But this is not true: av_interleaved_write_frame()'s actual behaviour is to always output blank packet (even on error). This commit documents this fact so that callers know that they can directly reuse this packet. Signed-off-by: Andreas Rheinhardt <andreas.rheinhardt@outlook.com>
FFmpeg README
FFmpeg is a collection of libraries and tools to process multimedia content such as audio, video, subtitles and related metadata.
Libraries
libavcodecprovides implementation of a wider range of codecs.libavformatimplements streaming protocols, container formats and basic I/O access.libavutilincludes hashers, decompressors and miscellaneous utility functions.libavfilterprovides a mean to alter decoded Audio and Video through chain of filters.libavdeviceprovides an abstraction to access capture and playback devices.libswresampleimplements audio mixing and resampling routines.libswscaleimplements color conversion and scaling routines.
Tools
- ffmpeg is a command line toolbox to manipulate, convert and stream multimedia content.
- ffplay is a minimalistic multimedia player.
- ffprobe is a simple analysis tool to inspect multimedia content.
- Additional small tools such as
aviocat,ismindexandqt-faststart.
Documentation
The offline documentation is available in the doc/ directory.
The online documentation is available in the main website and in the wiki.
Examples
Coding examples are available in the doc/examples directory.
License
FFmpeg codebase is mainly LGPL-licensed with optional components licensed under GPL. Please refer to the LICENSE file for detailed information.
Contributing
Patches should be submitted to the ffmpeg-devel mailing list using
git format-patch or git send-email. Github pull requests should be
avoided because they are not part of our review process and will be ignored.