FFmpeg是一套可以用来记录、转换数字音频、视频，并能将其转化为流的开源计算机程序。它包括了目前领先的音/视频编码库libavcodec。FFmpeg是在Linux下开发出来的，但它可以在包括Windows在内的大多数操作系统中编译。这个项目是由Fabrice Bellard发起的，现在由Michael Niedermayer主持。可以轻易地实现多种视频格式之间的相互转换，例如可以将摄录下的视频avi等转成现在视频网站所采用的flv格式。
视频转码工具FFmpeg 2014-07-15发布2.3正式版.新的产品系列。之前产品线为2.2.5 2.1.4,1.2.6.上个产品系列是2014-03-24的2.2 FFmpeg在视频网站应该是必用的转码工具。
完全改进：
version 2.3:
- AC3 fixed-point decoding
- shuffleplanes filter
- subfile protocol
- Phantom Cine demuxer
- replaygain data export
- VP7 video decoder
- Alias PIX image encoder and decoder
- Improvements to the BRender PIX image decoder
- Improvements to the XBM decoder
- QTKit input device
- improvements to OpenEXR image decoder
- support decoding 16-bit RLE SGI images
- GDI screen grabbing for Windows
- alternative rendition support for HTTP Live Streaming
- AVFoundation input device
- Direct Stream Digital (DSD) decoder
- Magic Lantern Video (MLV) demuxer
- On2 AVC (Audio for Video) decoder
- support for decoding through DXVA2 in ffmpeg
- libbs2b-based stereo-to-binaural audio filter
- libx264 reference frames count limiting depending on level
- native Opus decoder
- display matrix export and rotation api
- WebVTT encoder
- showcqt multimedia filter
- zoompan filter
- signalstats filter
- hqx filter (hq2x, hq3x, hq4x)
- flanger filter
- Image format auto-detection
- LRC demuxer and muxer
- Samba protocol (via libsmbclient)
- WebM DASH Manifest muxer
- libfribidi support in drawtext
项目主页：http://ffmpeg.org/
下载地址：http://ffmpeg.org/releases/ffmpeg-2.3.tar.bz2
来自:开源中国社区
