About FFmpeg
The project is made of several components:
- ffmpeg is a command line tool to convert multimedia files
between formats.
- ffserver is a multimedia streaming server for live
broadcasts.
- ffplay is a simple media player based on SDL and the FFmpeg libraries.
- libavcodec is a library containing decoders and encoders
for audio/video codecs.
- libavformat is a library containing demuxers and
muxers for multimedia container formats.