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Currently, the new decoding API is pretty much just a wrapper around the old deprecated one. This is problematic, since it interferes with making full use of the flexibility added by the new API. The old API should also be removed at some future point. Reorganize the code so that the new send_packet/receive_frame functions call the actual decoding directly and change the old deprecated avcodec_decode_* functions into wrappers around the new API. The new internal API for decoders is now changing as well. Before this commit, it mirrors the public API, so the decoders need to implement send_packet() and receive_frame() callbacks. This turns out to require awkward constructs in both the decoders and the generic code. After this commit, the decoders only implement the receive_frame() callback and call a new internal function, ff_decode_get_packet() to obtain input data, in the same manner to how the bitstream filters now work. avcodec will now always make a reference to the input packet, which means that non-refcounted input packets will be copied. Keeping the previous behaviour, where this copy could sometimes be avoided, would make the code significantly more complex and fragile for only dubious gains, since packets are typically small and everyone who cares about performance should use refcounted packets anyway.
Libav
Libav 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.libavresampleimplements audio mixing and resampling routines.libswscaleimplements color conversion and scaling routines.
Tools
- avconv is a command line toolbox to manipulate, convert and stream multimedia content.
- avplay is a minimalistic multimedia player.
- avprobe is a simple analisys 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
Conding examples are available in the doc/example directory.
License
Libav codebase is mainly LGPL-licensed with optional components licensed under GPL. Please refer to the LICENSE file for detailed information.