FFmpeg C API documentation/tutorial

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fvisticot picture fvisticot · Apr 15, 2010 · Viewed 62.6k times · Source

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?

Answer

mpenkov picture mpenkov · Oct 29, 2012

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.

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