# leandromoreira/ffmpeg-libav-tutorial

FFmpeg libav tutorial - learn how media works from basic to transmuxing, transcoding and more. Translations: 🇺🇸 🇨🇳 🇰🇷 🇪🇸 🇻🇳 🇧🇷 🇷🇺

Repository: https://github.com/leandromoreira/ffmpeg-libav-tutorial
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/ffmpeg-libav-tutorial
Homepage: https://github.com/leandromoreira/ffmpeg-libav-tutorial
Language: C
License: BSD-3-Clause
License Family: permissive
Topics: ffmpeg, ffmpeg-libraries, libav, tutorial, codec, video-processing, transcode-video
Last push: 2026-06-18T14:18:13+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 62/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 88, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3222, "days_push": 76, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 11039, forks 1012 (observed 2026-08-28T04:10:45.934419+00:00)

## What it is
An open-source tutorial teaching how to use FFmpeg's libav libraries in C, covering video/audio fundamentals, codecs, containers, and hands-on chapters on remuxing and transcoding. It includes runnable example code and translations in multiple languages.

## Use cases
- learn how video and audio codecs work
- get started with ffmpeg libav api in c
- write a program to remux video files
- understand transcoding and transmuxing concepts
- build a media processing tool with libav
- replace the deprecated dranger ffmpeg tutorial

## When to choose
- you want to learn FFmpeg as a library (libav) rather than just the CLI
- you need a maintained, example-driven introduction to media fundamentals
- you prefer learning through runnable C code with explanations

## When to avoid
- you only need FFmpeg command-line recipes without library programming
- you need production-ready media processing code rather than educational examples
- you want tutorials in a language other than C without adapting the concepts

## Facets
- artifact type: learning-resource
- maturity: active
- function: video-processing, developer-tools
- domain: tutorials, media, developer-tools
- platform: cpp, cross-platform
- tags: ffmpeg, libav, transcoding, transmuxing, codec, multimedia, c, tutorial, video

## Member repositories
- leandromoreira/ffmpeg-libav-tutorial (main) score 62

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:45.934419+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:17:11.691695+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/leandromoreira/ffmpeg-libav-tutorial (fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:45.934419+00:00, sha 17abc58e5292)
  - homepage: https://github.com/leandromoreira/ffmpeg-libav-tutorial (fetched 2026-08-29T08:15:34.705955+00:00, sha 38872be45570)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.