FFmpeg
The universal toolkit for recording, converting and streaming audio and video — the libavcodec/libavformat libraries at its core decode practically every multimedia format ever devised. Nearly every media application, from VLC to YouTube's pipeline, stands on its shoulders.
| Status | Active |
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| Category | multimedia |
| License | LGPL-2.1-or-later / GPL-2.0-or-later |
| Website | https://ffmpeg.org/ |
Preservation rating
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Learn more| Mirror redundancy | 5 out of 5 (5/5) |
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| Documentation | 3 out of 5 (3/5) |
| Reproducibility | 2 out of 5 (2/5) |
| License | 5 out of 5 (5/5) |
| Metadata | 5 out of 5 (5/5) |
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Details
| Checksums | SHA256 + PGP |
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| Reproducible build | No |
| History | Started by Fabrice Bellard in 2000; the name combines "fast forward" and MPEG. |
| Versions | 7.x |
| Maintainers | FFmpeg community |
| Last verified | 2026-07-02 |
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| SHA-256 | ffmpeg-8.1.2.tar.xz |
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