libavcodec is a free software/open source LGPL-licensed library of codecs for encoding and decoding video and audio data written in the C programming language. It's part of the FFmpeg-project. There are many applications that rely on it.

Implemented Video Codecs

• MPEG-1
• MPEG-2
• MPEG-4 Part 2
• H.261
• H.263
• H.264/MPEG-4 AVC (decoding only)
• WMV (version 7/8 only)
• Sorenson codec
• Cinepak
• MJPEG
• Huffyuv
• Snow
• Theora
• VP3

Implemented Audio Codecs

• Apple Lossless
• Cook Codec
• FLAC
• MP2
• MP3 (native decoder, encoding through LAME)
• Shorten
• QDM2
• RealAudio 1.0
• RealAudio 2.0
• Vorbis
• Windows Media Audio

Applications using libavcodec

• Avidemux
• ffdshow
• FFmpeg
• GStreamer
• MPlayer
• VLC media player
• xine
• Chroma Player

C libraries | Free video software | Video codecs | Free multimedia codecs, containers, and splitters

External links

• FFMpeg/Libavformat/Libavcodec/Libavutils Doxygen

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