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FFmpeg

CLI · Multi-platform

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Decodes, encodes and converts nearly every audio and video format, as a command-line tool and as the libav* libraries behind it.

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The licence here depends on how you configure the build, which is the detail people most often get wrong when shipping FFmpeg inside a product.Telebem editors

Details

Use case
CLI
Language
CMulti-platform ecosystem
Licence
LGPL-2.1-or-laterWeak copyleft: Changes to the library itself stay open; your own code need not.The core is LGPL-2.1-or-later so it can be linked into proprietary software if users can substitute their own build, but configuring with --enable-gpl pulls in GPL components and makes the whole result GPL-2.0-or-later.
Activity
ActiveReleasing regularly
Package
Source build or distro package (ffmpeg, libavcodec-dev)
Tags
video · audio · transcoding · codecs · media

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