libav (or libav*) is the collective name of the FFmpeg libraries: libavcodec, libavformat, libavfilter, libavutil, etc. The name has also been appropriated by the Libav project–a fork of FFmpeg.
Questions tagged [libav]
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Decode MP3, then increase the audio volume, and then encode the new audio
I want to first decode a MP3 audio file, and then increase the volume of the audio, and then encode it again into a new MP3 file. I want to use libavformat or libavcodec for this. Can you help me how I can do this? Any example?

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How to obtain titles and chapters information in DVD?
I found many question about creating DVD menu using ffmpeg but i did not find any one about programmically access to DVD structure information. When i using libav (or FFmpeg) library i can open DVD image (iso file) and access to video, audio and…

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fedora 21 javafx not creating mediaplayer
I recently upgraded to fedora 21. I really like it, however, javafx MediaPlayer doesn't work.
As per the JavaFX System Requirements Site, for a Linux distro to create A MediaPlayer I need:
libavcodec53
libavformat53
I couldn't find any of these…

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FFMPEG audio transcoding using libav* libraries
I am writing an audio transcoding application using ffmpeg libraries.
Here is my code
/*
* File: main.cpp
* Author: vinod
* Compile with "g++ -std=c++11 -o audiotranscode main.cpp -lavformat -lavcodec -lavutil -lavfilter"
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ffmpeg exit status -1094995529
I'm developing an application that makes calls to ffprobe that return the unorthodox exit status of -1094995529 for certain files when on Windows. This exit status is given consistently, and there is some minor discussion of this.
Why is this value…

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Decode audio using libavcodec and play using libAO?
I use following code snippet to decode audio files (tested with MP3,WAV,WMV).
But when it plays the audio , it just gives static sounds and crashes time to time.
Any hints on what i am doing wrong here ?
#include
#include…

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iPhone SDK 4.3 libav compiling problem
I faced with strange problem. I installed iPhone SDK 4.3 and xCode 4 and now I can't compile libav from ffmpeg for ARMv6 architecture. This is my script to compile it (it works fine for iPhone SDK 4.2):
./configure \
--disable-doc --disable-ffmpeg…

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How to control key-frame generation of ffmpeg?
I'm making a segmenter that intervene ffmpeg's write_frame function and write output data to separate files. Each segmented file contains segment of about 3 seconds video.
The code does following:
1 - Get transcoded packet
2 - Check if it…

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Libav build for Android
Does anyone succeed compiling Libav for Android. I currently looking for documentation.
Thanks!

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How to Convert CMSampleBuffer/UIImage into ffmpeg's AVPicture?
I'm trying to encode iPhone's camera frames into a H.264 video using ffmpeg's libav* libraries. I found in this
Apple's article how to convert CMSampleBuffer to UIImage, but how can I convert it to ffmpeg's AVPicture?
Thanks.

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FFMpeg - How to copy codec ( video and audio ) from 'mp4' container to 'ts' container
i have this ffmpeg command
ffmpeg -i c:\input.mp4 -vcodec copy -acodec copy -vbsf h264_mp4toannexb c:\output.ts.
The above command successfully converts input.mp4 to output.ts.
I need to implement the same functionality via code (using the ffmpeg…

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Decode a video file from memory using libav
Supose I have an entire video file in memory and I want to use libav to decode the whole frames. How should I do it? The point is that I can do it reading directly from a file using avformat_open_input() function but I do need to do it from a file…

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Set RTSP/UDP buffer size in FFmpeg/LibAV
Note: I'm aware ffmpeg and libav are different libraries. This is a problem common to both.
Disclaimer: Duplicate of SO question marked as answered but actually didn't give a proper solution.
Insufficient UDP buffer size causes broken streams for…

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LIBAV - avprobe
Coming from a linux background. I was just wondering that the best way to install avprobe on OSX is?
I tried installing libav: http://libav.org/download.html but this seems to use avconf. I have a script that was written by someone else that depends…

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Extremely high bit rate when encoding video with libavcodec
I am trying to capture the camera output and make a video using libavcodec. As an example on how to accomplish this i have used ffmpeg muxing example.
The problem is that a 4 seconds video has a size of ~15mb and a bitrate of ~30000 kb/s, although I…

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