# Libavcodec Documentation

## Table of Contents

- 1 Description
- 2 See Also
- 3 Authors

## 1 Description# TOC

The libavcodec library provides a generic encoding/decoding framework and contains multiple decoders and encoders for audio, video and subtitle streams, and several bitstream filters.

The shared architecture provides various services ranging from bit stream I/O to DSP optimizations, and makes it suitable for implementing robust and fast codecs as well as for experimentation.

## 2 See Also# TOC

ffmpeg, ffplay, ffprobe, ffmpeg-codecs, bitstream-filters, libavutil

## 3 Authors# TOC

The FFmpeg developers.

For details about the authorship, see the Git history of the project (git://source.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg), e.g. by typing the command `git log` in the FFmpeg source directory, or browsing the online repository at http://source.ffmpeg.org.

Maintainers for the specific components are listed in the file `MAINTAINERS` in the source code tree.

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