FFmpeg README

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 FFmpeg is a collection of libraries and tools to process multimedia content

 such as audio, video, subtitles and related metadata.

 ## Libraries

 * `libavcodec` provides implementation of a wider range of codecs.
 * `libavformat` implements streaming protocols, container formats and basic I/O access.
 * `libavutil` includes hashers, decompressors and miscellaneous utility functions.
 * `libavfilter` provides a mean to alter decoded Audio and Video through chain of filters.
 * `libavdevice` provides an abstraction to access capture and playback devices.

 * `libswresample` implements audio mixing and resampling routines.

 * `libswscale` implements color conversion and scaling routines.

 ## Tools

 * [ffmpeg](https://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.html) is a command line toolbox to

   manipulate, convert and stream multimedia content.

 * [ffplay](https://ffmpeg.org/ffplay.html) is a minimalistic multimedia player.
 * [ffprobe](https://ffmpeg.org/ffprobe.html) is a simple analysis tool to inspect

   multimedia content.

 * [ffserver](https://ffmpeg.org/ffserver.html) is a multimedia streaming server

   for live broadcasts.

 * Additional small tools such as `aviocat`, `ismindex` and `qt-faststart`.

 ## Documentation

 The offline documentation is available in the **doc/** directory.
 

 The online documentation is available in the main [website](https://ffmpeg.org)
 and in the [wiki](https://trac.ffmpeg.org).

 
 ### 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.