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Libav provides cross-platform tools and libraries to convert, manipulate and stream a wide range of multimedia formats and protocols. avconv is a very fast video and audio converter that can also grab from a live audio/video source. It can also convert between arbitrary sample rates and resize video on the fly with a high quality polyphase filter. AVplay is a very simple and portable media player using the Libav libraries and the SDL library. avprobe gathers information from multimedia streams and prints it in human- and machine-readable fashion. avserver is a streaming server for both audio and video. Command line tools.
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version 12.3:
- pictor: Correctly check frame dimension (CVE-2017-7862)
- smacker: add sanity check for length in smacker_decode_tree() (CVE-2017-16803)
- smacker: limit recursion depth of smacker_decode_bigtree
- cmdutils: update copyright year to 2018
- matroskadec: allow RealAudio/Cook/Sipro streams of flavor 0 (bug/1055)
- avconv: only retry decoding on actual decoding errors (bug/1089)
- vc1: skip motion compensation when data for last picture is invalid (bug/1101)
- avcodec/vc1dec: fix mby_start for interlaced content (bug/1100)
- pictor: Correctly check frame dimension (CVE-2017-7862)
- smacker: add sanity check for length in smacker_decode_tree() (CVE-2017-16803)
- smacker: limit recursion depth of smacker_decode_bigtree
- cmdutils: update copyright year to 2018
- matroskadec: allow RealAudio/Cook/Sipro streams of flavor 0 (bug/1055)
- avconv: only retry decoding on actual decoding errors (bug/1089)
- vc1: skip motion compensation when data for last picture is invalid (bug/1101)
- avcodec/vc1dec: fix mby_start for interlaced content (bug/1100)
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It seems that branch 12 will bot released before I am 6 feet under!
That sucks! LIBAV is not a good choice for developers who wants to be up-to-date!
Your overall better choice is FFMPEG!
That sucks! LIBAV is not a good choice for developers who wants to be up-to-date!
Your overall better choice is FFMPEG!
Review by Jim_pansen on
Aug 4, 2016 Version: 11,7
OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 3/10
Functionality: 10/10
Value for money: 10/10
Overall: 5/10
Still no branch 12 to see on the horizon!
That makes me tired...
That makes me tired...
Review by Jim_pansen on
Mar 1, 2016 Version: 12
OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 1/10
Functionality: 10/10
Value for money: 10/10
Overall: 10/10
It still does not have proper support for Avisynth 2.6, is a shame.
Review by remanyao on
Feb 29, 2016 Version: Libav
OS: Windows 7 Ease of use: 5/10
Functionality: 5/10
Value for money: 5/10
Overall: 5/10
Simply annoying is the long time between major release versions. Version 12 is under development since more than a half year, but we still see no release version announced. I just complain about it because most open source software developer do not use nightly builds so new features not come to life in proper libav based softwsae tools while ffmpeg based tools have it included due to their faster integration to release versions & the shorter release cycles.
I do not say that ffmpeg is more better than libav or the other way around. I just say that great developments does not cone to life without a force to release it soon. Development in libav is great, but please let it out all the good work you did to can use all the good work in great tools such as VLC Player or Handbrake. If these tools would use ffmpeg libraries the missing features & format support would be already a part of it...
My hope for the future is to see libav & ffmpeg teams joined.
I do not say that ffmpeg is more better than libav or the other way around. I just say that great developments does not cone to life without a force to release it soon. Development in libav is great, but please let it out all the good work you did to can use all the good work in great tools such as VLC Player or Handbrake. If these tools would use ffmpeg libraries the missing features & format support would be already a part of it...
My hope for the future is to see libav & ffmpeg teams joined.
Review by Jim_pansen on
Nov 1, 2015 Version: 12
OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 5/10
Functionality: 10/10
Value for money: 10/10
Overall: 5/10
Twelve years ago that Avisynth use, in ffmpeg I have no problems, in mencoder I have no problems, in libav:
"avconv version v12_dev0-1322-g4e17946, Copyright (c) 2000-2015 the Libav developers
built on May 24 2015 18:24:04 with gcc 4.8.3 (Gentoo 4.8.3 p1.1, pie-0.5.9)
C:\Program Files (x86)\LIBAV\usr\bin\LIBRA.avs: Invalid data found when processing input"
Please fix it.
Thank you.
"avconv version v12_dev0-1322-g4e17946, Copyright (c) 2000-2015 the Libav developers
built on May 24 2015 18:24:04 with gcc 4.8.3 (Gentoo 4.8.3 p1.1, pie-0.5.9)
C:\Program Files (x86)\LIBAV\usr\bin\LIBRA.avs: Invalid data found when processing input"
Please fix it.
Thank you.
Review by remanyao on
Jun 2, 2015 Version: Libav 11.4
OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10
Functionality: 5/10
Value for money: 10/10
Overall: 5/10
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