[ffmpeg] upstream merge and related gn files update

Test: built locally and ran mediaplayer_tests

Fixed: 51657

Change-Id: I8f34cefc94e4376bff75997b097afc68be7c0999
tree: e73acabfe7133937aa6bb5b923fb6e2b019d1369
  1. compat/
  2. doc/
  3. ffbuild/
  4. fftools/
  5. fuchsia/
  6. libavcodec/
  7. libavdevice/
  8. libavfilter/
  9. libavformat/
  10. libavresample/
  11. libavutil/
  12. libpostproc/
  13. libswresample/
  14. libswscale/
  15. manifest/
  16. packages/
  17. presets/
  18. tests/
  19. tools/
  20. .gitattributes
  21. .gitignore
  22. .mailmap
  23. .travis.yml
  24. BUILD.gn
  25. Changelog
  26. configure
  27. CONTRIBUTING.md
  28. COPYING.GPLv2
  29. COPYING.GPLv3
  30. COPYING.LGPLv2.1
  31. COPYING.LGPLv3
  32. CREDITS
  33. CREDITS.fuchsia
  34. ffmpeg_generated.gni
  35. ffmpeg_options.gni
  36. INSTALL.md
  37. LICENSE.md
  38. MAINTAINERS
  39. Makefile
  40. README.fuchsia
  41. README.md
  42. RELEASE
  43. RELEASE_NOTES
README.md

FFmpeg README

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 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, ismindex and qt-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.