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While the share of elements used by both is quite big, the amount of code shared between the decoders and encoders is negligible. Therefore one can easily split the context if one wants to. The reasons for doing so are that the non-shared elements are non-negligible: The stats array which is only used by the encoder takes 524288B of 868904B (on x64); similarly, pix_bgr_map which is only used by the decoder takes 16KiB. Furthermore, using a shared context also entails inclusions of unneeded headers like put_bits.h for the decoder and get_bits.h for the encoder (and all of these and much more for huffyuv.c). 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 means to alter decoded audio and video through a directed graph of connected 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.