FFmpeg is the leading framework for decoding, encoding, transcoding, muxing, demuxing, streaming, filtering and playing pretty much any media format. It supports widespread and standardized, proprietary and fringe file formats and encodings. It's comprised of the ffmpeg, ffserver, ffplay and ffprobe utilities. But also provides libavcodec, libavutil, libavformat, libavfilter, libavdevice, libswscale and libswresample for application use. Its primary development attention is on security.
minor feature: 7.1 was released on 2024-09-30. It is the latest stable FFmpeg release
From the 7.1 release branch, which was cut from master on 2024-09-24.
It includes the following library versions:
Libavutil 59. 39.100
Libavcodec 61. 19.100
Libavformat 61. 7.100
Libavdevice 61. 3.100
Libavfilter 10. 4.100
Libswscale 8. 3.100
Libswresample 5. 3.100
Libpostproc 58. 3.100
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