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It was sort of optional before - if you didn't call it, networking was initialized on demand, and an ugly warning was logged. Also, the doxygen comments threatened that it would be made strictly required one day. Make it explicitly optional. I would prefer to deprecate it fully, but there might still be legitimate reasons to use this. But the average user won't need it. This is needed only for two reasons: to initialize TLS libraries like OpenSSL and GnuTLS, and winsock. OpenSSL and GnuTLS were already silently initialized on demand if the global network init function was not called. They also have various thread-safety acrobatics, which make concurrent initialization within libavformat safe. In addition, the libraries are moving towards making their global init functions safe, which removes all need for central global init. In particular, GnuTLS 3.5.16 and OpenSSL 1.1.0g have been found to have safe init functions. In all cases, they use internal reference counters to avoid that the global uninit functions interfere with concurrent uses of the library by other API users who called global init. winsock should be thread-safe as well, and maintains an internal reference counter as well. Since we still support ancient TLS libraries, which do not have this fixed, and since it's unknown whether winsock and GnuTLS reinitialization is costly in any way, don't deprecate the libavformat functions yet. |
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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.