Libavcodec
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- The correct title of this article is libavcodec. The initial letter is shown capitalized due to technical restrictions.
libavcodec is a free software/open source LGPL-licensed library of codecs for encoding and decoding video and audio data; it is written in the C programming language. It is part of the FFmpeg-project and many free/open source applications rely on it.
[edit] Implemented Video Codecs
- AVS (decoding only)
- CamStudio CSCD
- Cinepak
- Creative YUV (CYUV)
- Flash Screen Video (decoding only)
- H.261
- H.263
- H.264/MPEG-4 AVC (decoding only)
- Huffyuv
- id Software RoQ Video (decoding only)
- Intel Indeo 2 (decoding only)
- Intel Indeo 3 (decoding only)
- LOCO (decoding only)
- MJPEG
- MPEG-1
- MPEG-2
- MPEG-4 Part 2 (the format used for example by the popular DivX and Xvid codecs)
- Apple QuickDraw (decoding only)
- Quicktime Graphics SMC
- RealVideo RV10 (decoding only)
- RealVideo RV20 (decoding only)
- Snow
- Sorenson SVQ1
- Sorenson SVQ3 (decoding only)
- Theora (decoding only)
- Asus V1
- Asus V2
- Sierra VMD Video
- VMware VMnc (decoding only)
- On2 VP3 (decoding only)
- On2 VP5 (decoding only)
- On2 VP6 (decoding only)
- Westwood Studios VQA
- Microsoft WMV — version 7, 8 and 9 (decoding only)
- Wing Commander/Xan Video (decoding only)
[edit] Implemented Audio Codecs
- Apple Lossless
- Cook Codec
- FLAC
- Intel Music Coder
- MP2
- MP3 (native decoder, encoding through LAME)
- Shorten
- QDM2
- RealAudio 1.0
- RealAudio 2.0
- Vorbis
- WavPack lossless audio decoder
- Windows Media Audio 1
- Windows Media Audio 2
[edit] Applications using libavcodec
- Avidemux
- Blender
- Cinelerra
- ffdshow (wraps libavcodec as a DirectShow filter and adds postprocessing to improve image quality; once installed, it is automatically used by all Windows DirectShow video players, such as Windows Media Player, Media Player Classic, Winamp, Zoom Player etc.)
- FFmpeg
- GStreamer
- MPlayer
- MEncoder
- VLC media player
- xine
- Chroma Player
- Xvidcap
