libavcodec is a free software/open source LGPL-licensed library of codecs for encoding and decoding video and audio data; it is written in the C programming language. It is part of the FFmpeg-project and many free/open source applications rely on it.

Implemented video codecs

• AVS (decoding only)
• BFI^[1]
• CamStudio CSCD
• Cinepak
• Creative YUV (CYUV)
• DNxHD
• Flash Screen Video
• FFV1
• H.261^[2]
• H.263^[2]
• H.264/MPEG-4 AVC (decoding only)^[2]
• Huffyuv
• id Software RoQ Video
• Intel Indeo 2 (decoding only)
• Intel Indeo 3 (decoding only)
• LOCO (decoding only)
• Mimic^[3]
• MJPEG
• MPEG-1
• MPEG-2/H.262
• MPEG-4 Part 2 (the format used for example by the popular DivX and Xvid codecs)
• Apple Computer QuickDraw (decoding only)
• Quicktime Graphics SMC
• RealVideo RV10
• RealVideo RV20
• RL2^[4]
• Smacker video
• Snow
• Sorenson SVQ1
• Sorenson SVQ3 (decoding only)
• Theora (decoding only)
• Asus V1
• Asus V2
• Sierra VMD Video
• VMware VMnc (decoding only)
• Duck TrueMotion v1
• Duck TrueMotion v2
• On2 VP3 (decoding only)
• On2 VP5 (decoding only)^[2]
• On2 TrueMotion VP6 (decoding only)^[2]
• Westwood Studios VQA
• Microsoft WMV — version 7 and 8
• Microsoft WMV — version 9 (decoding only)
• Wing Commander/Xan Video (decoding only)

Implemented audio codecs

• 8SVX^[5]
• AAC (decoding only)^[6]
• AC-3
• Apple Lossless^[7]
• ATRAC3 (decoding only)^[2]
• Cook Codec (decoding only)
• EA ADPCM^[8]
• FLAC
• Intel Music Coder (decoding only)
• Meridian Lossless Packing (decoding only)^[9]
• Monkey's Audio (decoding only)
• MP2
• MP3 (native decoder, encoding through LAME)
• Nellymoser Asao Codec in Flash (decoding only)
• QDM2 (decoding only)
• RealAudio 1.0 (decoding only)
• RealAudio 2.0 (decoding only)
• Shorten (decoding only)
• Truespeech (decoding only)
• TTA (decoding only)
• TXD^[10]
• Vorbis
• WavPack (decoding only)
• Windows Media Audio 1
• Windows Media Audio 2

Implemented image codecs

• BMP
• GIF
• PNG
• JPEG
• V.Flash PTX
• SGI
• Sun Rasterfile
• FLIC (decoding only)
• TIFF
• PNM

Libraries that depend on libavcodec

• libavformat (part of FFmpeg)
• libgegl (optional. part of GEGL)
  • libgimp (part of GIMP)
• libmpcodecs (part of MPlayer)
  • libmpdemux (part of MPlayer)
• libvlc (part of VLC)

Applications using libavcodec

Video players

• GOM Player (has license issue)
• FFplay
• MPlayer
• PSPTube - network movie player for PSP
• VLC
• xine

Audio players

• Audacious (Includes only ffape code in audacious-plugins)
• Rockbox (Includes only FLAC code)
• XMMS2

Multimedia players

• Gnash
• Moonlight
• swfdec

Video editors

• Avidemux
• Cinelerra
• Kdenlive
• Kino

Audio editors

• Audacity (since 1.3.6)

Video converters

• FFmpeg
• MEncoder
• Transcode

Audio converters

• BeSweet

Graphic libraries

• GEGL

VoIP

• Ekiga
• WengoPhone

Multimedia Streaming Server

• FFserver
• VLC

Multimedia frameworks

• ac3encode - a DirectShow AC3 encoder
• ffdshow (wraps libavcodec as a DirectShow filter and adds postprocessing to improve image quality; once installed, it is automatically used by all Windows DirectShow video players, such as Windows Media Player, Media Player Classic, Winamp, Zoom Player etc.)
• ffdshow tryouts
• GStreamer

Metadata Manager

• GNU libextractor (Includes some libavcodec's code)

Others

• AtGLas
• avifile
• Avview
• bbplay
• BeOS FFmpeg decoders
• BeOS HybridDivx
• Blender
• Chameleo
• Chroma Player
• chronictv
• CorePlayer
• D-Volution
• DivXray
• DivXtoDVD
• Dr. Divx
• DreaMule (Uses a layer called "SimpleVLC")
• dvbcut
• DVDFlick
• Easy VOB 2 DivX
• ffmpeg-php
• ffmpeg2theora
• FFMPEG for QT
• ffmpegX for Mac OS X
• ffmpegX Companion
• FFRecord
• fftv
• FFusion - an alternative codec suite for Mac OS X
• FMJ
• Fobs
• FreeJ
• Frogger
• Gallery
• gmerlin
• GPAC
• HandBrake
• HTS (Home Theater System)
• Hyperion
• ImTOO DVD Ripper
• Internet DJ Console
• Jffmpeg
• K3b
• OpenCV

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