

In this tutorial, we learn how to install FFMPEG on CentOS 7. It can also be used as a command line tool in PHP and other programming languages for transcoding multimedia files. In short, it is a free software available with libraries and programs to handle multimedia data. Libswresample - library promoting audio resampling, rematrixing and sample format conversion operations Libswscale - library enhancing highly optimized image scaling and colorspace and pixel format conversion operations Libavdevice - library which provides a framework grabbing from and rendering to many common multimedia input/output devices framework Libavfilter - library which enhances a generic audio/video filtering Libavformat - library which provides framework for multiplexing and multiplexing video/audio and subtitle streams Libavutil - utility library to aid portable multimedia programming Libavcodec - an audio/video codec library It is supported by various library files like libavcodec, libavutil, libavformat, libavfilter, libavdevice, libswscale and libswresample. It can also convert between arbitrary sample rates and re-size video on the fly with a high quality polyphase filter. FFMPEG is a very fast video and audio converter that can also grab from a live audio/video source. FFMPEG is a major multimedia framework, able to decode, encode, transcode, mux, demux, stream, filter and play various audio and video files in different formats.
