FFmpeg C API documentation/tutorial

Question

I am trying to find documentation to use the FFmpeg C API. It seems that only command line documentation is available.

Is there any good documentation/tutorials/links available?

Solution 1

I've been keeping the Dranger ffmpeg tutorials up to date here: https://github.com/mpenkov/ffmpeg-tutorial

I've tried to keep the code changes minimal while fixing bugs and rewriting deprecated parts.

Solution 2

Here is the best one I have found so far. It deals with a lot of the quirks of the API and shows you how to build a working video player using SDL and libavformat/libavcodec.

http://dranger.com/ffmpeg/

Solution 3

I created this wiki page so that it can try and keep updated:

Using libav*

Solution 4

http://dranger.com/ffmpeg/ is great, but the source code is little dated. For updated code of the tutorial, please take a look here: https://github.com/phamquy/FFmpeg-tutorial-samples

Solution 5

If you're interested in writing your own ffmpeg format or codec, take a look here:

http://wiki.multimedia.cx/index.php?title=Category:FFmpeg_Tutorials

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Comments

[rogerdpack]

outdated though, see the other answers...

[njahnke]

note that this link was broken by stack overflow's autolinking regex not matching the star at the end of the link - you will need to manually add the star or else copy and paste the link to be taken to the wiki page.

[rogerdpack]

ok hopefully fixed it, at least for now...

[Tas]

FYI the dranger.com one appears to have been updated in 2015

[Tas]

FYI the dranger.com one appears to have been updated in 2015