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Package: ffmpeg

Description: Tools for transcoding, streaming and playing of multimedia files
FFmpeg is the leading multimedia framework, able to decode, encode, transcode, mux, demux, stream, filter and play pretty much anything that humans and machines have created. It supports the most obscure ancient formats up to the cutting edge.
This package contains:
 * ffmpeg: a command line tool to convert multimedia files between formats
 * ffplay: a simple media player based on SDL and the FFmpeg libraries
 * ffprobe: a simple multimedia stream analyzer
 * qt-faststart: a utility to rearrange Quicktime files
Homepage: https://ffmpeg.org/
copyright | changelog | Debian changelog | Debian README

Manual pages:

ffmpeg-all(1) ffmpeg-bitstream-filters(1) ffmpeg-codecs(1)
ffmpeg-devices(1) ffmpeg-filters(1) ffmpeg-formats(1)
ffmpeg-protocols(1) ffmpeg-resampler(1) ffmpeg-scaler(1)
ffmpeg-utils(1) ffmpeg(1) ffplay-all(1)
ffplay(1) ffprobe-all(1) ffprobe(1)
qt-faststart(1)

Other documents:

/usr/share/doc/ffmpeg

Other packages built from the same source:

libavdevice61 libavfilter10 libavformat61 libavutil59 libpostproc58
libswresample5 libswscale8 ffmpeg-doc libavcodec61

Manual page search:

ffmpeg(1) ffmpeg-all(1) ffmpeg-bitstream-filters(1)
ffmpeg-codecs(1) ffmpeg-devices(1) ffmpeg-filters(1)
ffmpeg-formats(1) ffmpeg-protocols(1) ffmpeg-resampler(1)
ffmpeg-scaler(1) ffmpeg-utils(1)

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