It contains libavcodec, libavutil, libavformat, libavfilter, libavdevice, libswscale, and libswresample, which can be used by applications as well as ffmpeg, ffserver, ffplay, and ffprobe, which end users can use for transcoding, streaming and playing. No matter if they were designed by some standards committee, the community, or a corporation. It supports the most obscure ancient formats up to the cutting edge. FFmpeg is a freeware command-line tool to convert multimedia files between formats.įFmpeg is the leading multimedia framework, able to decode, encode, transcode, mux, demux, stream, filter, and play almost anything that humans and machines have created.