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6 Libav is a collection of libraries and tools to process multimedia content
7 such as audio, video, subtitles and related metadata.
11 * `libavcodec` provides implementation of a wider range of codecs.
12 * `libavformat` implements streaming protocols, container formats and basic I/O access.
13 * `libavutil` includes hashers, decompressors and miscellaneous utility functions.
14 * `libavfilter` provides a mean to alter decoded Audio and Video through chain of filters.
15 * `libavdevice` provides an abstraction to access capture and playback devices.
16 * `libavresample` implements audio mixing and resampling routines.
17 * `libswscale` implements color conversion and scaling routines.
21 * [avconv](http://libav.org/avconv.html) is a command line toolbox to
22 manipulate, convert and stream multimedia content.
23 * [avplay](http://libav.org/avplay.html) is a minimalistic multimedia player.
24 * [avprobe](http://libav.org/avprobe.html) is a simple analisys tool to inspect
26 * Additional small tools such as `aviocat`, `ismindex` and `qt-faststart`.
30 The offline documentation is available in the **doc/** directory.
32 The online documentation is available in the main [website](http://libav.org)
33 and in the [wiki](http://wiki.libav.org).
37 Conding examples are available in the **doc/example** directory.
41 Libav codebase is mainly LGPL-licensed with optional components licensed under
42 GPL. Please refer to the LICENSE file for detailed information.