FFmpeg For Mac

FFmpeg is a powerful and flexible multimedia framework designed to decode, encode, transcode, mux, demux, filter, stream and play a wide variety of audio and video files with ease.

FFmpeg provides a collection of tools that you can use to convert, stream, play and analyze multimedia files. Consequently, you can use the ffmpeg command line utility to convert files between numerous formats and the ffserver as a multimedia streaming server to broadcast footage in real time.

FFmpeg also comes with ffplay, a clean and simple media played based on SDL and the FFmpeg libraries, and the ffprobe, a practical multimedia stream analyzer. On top of the above mentioned tools, FFmpeg also features numerous development libraries such as libavutil, libavcodec, libavdevice, libavformat, and others.

The great thing about FFmpeg, is that it offers support for almost any file format ever created, from the most obscure ancient formats up to the latest ones. Moreover, the contained libavcodec, libavutil, libavformat, libavfilter, libavdevice, libswscale and libswresample libraries can be used by any application.

Consequently, FFmpeg comes as a versatile solution for application developers, as well as end users that need to transcode, stream or play media. Hence, developers and use the libswresample library to perform highly optimized audio resampling, rematrixing and sample format conversion operations.

Numerous media filters are available in the libavfilter library while the libswscale library can assist you in performing highly optimized image scaling and color space/pixel format conversion tasks.

Moreover, the libavdevice is the comprehensive library that contains output and input devices for capturing from and rendering to various multimedia input and output frameworks like VfW, ALSA and others.

The libavcoded library offers numerous decoders and encoders for audio and video codecs while the libavutil contains a wide variety of functions for simplifying programming, including data data structures, random number generators, core multimedia utilities, mathematics routines and more.