doc::libavutil(3)

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💖 NAME 💖

okay so hi bestie, this is the doc::libavutil(3) page, and libavutil is a multimedia-biased utility library. That's the whole NAME vibe: libavutil — multimedia-biased utility library. Periodt. 💅

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

The libavutil library is a utility library to aid portable multimedia programming. Inside it you'll find safe portable string functions, random number generators, data structures, additional mathematics functions, cryptography, and multimedia related functionality (like enumerations for pixel and sample formats). It is not a library for code needed by both libavcodec and libavformat. Not me clarifying that immediately, but yes. 🫶

The goals for this library are to be:

  • Modular — It should have few interdependencies and the possibility of disabling individual parts during ./configure.
  • Small — Both sources and objects should be small.
  • Efficient — It should have low CPU and memory usage.
  • Useful — It should avoid useless features that almost no one needs.

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

👑 AUTHORS 👑

The FFmpeg developers. 👑

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

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

byeee bestie 💖 the footer stamp we have is literally doc::libavutil(3) — that's the source/version-ish line included here, and there's no separate date listed in this copy, so I'm not inventing one. ✨🫶

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