Libavdevice Documentation


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1 Description

The libavdevice library provides a generic framework for grabbing from and rendering to many common multimedia input/output devices, and supports several input and output devices, including Video4Linux2, VfW, DShow, and ALSA.

2 See Also

ffmpeg, ffplay, ffprobe, ffmpeg-devices, libavutil, libavcodec, libavformat

3 Authors

The FFmpeg developers.

For details about the authorship, see the Git history of the project (https://git.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg), e.g. by typing the command git log in the FFmpeg source directory, or browsing the online repository at https://git.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.

Maintainers for the specific components are listed in the file ‘MAINTAINERS’ in the source code tree.