Jellyfin FFmpeg The Jellyfin Project
winget install --id=Jellyfin.FFmpeg -e FFmpeg for Jellyfin with custom extensions and enhancements
Jellyfin FFmpeg is a multimedia processing tool designed to enhance video and audio transcoding capabilities within the Jellyfin platform. Built upon the FFmpeg framework, it includes custom extensions and optimizations tailored for seamless integration with Jellyfin, ensuring efficient media streaming and playback.
Key Features:
- Custom extensions that improve compatibility and performance for Jellyfin-specific use cases.
- Enhanced transcoding quality and speed through optimized builds.
- Support for a wide range of video, audio, and subtitle formats to ensure broad compatibility.
- Hardware acceleration support for faster processing on supported devices.
- Integration with Jellyfin's ecosystem for streamlined media management.
Ideal for content creators, streamers, and media enthusiasts who use Jellyfin to host or consume multimedia content. This tool helps reduce server load during transcoding while maintaining high-quality output, ensuring a smooth and enjoyable user experience. It can be installed via winget for easy setup on compatible systems.
README
FFmpeg README
FFmpeg is a collection of libraries and tools to process multimedia content such as audio, video, subtitles and related metadata.
Libraries
libavcodecprovides implementation of a wider range of codecs.libavformatimplements streaming protocols, container formats and basic I/O access.libavutilincludes hashers, decompressors and miscellaneous utility functions.libavfilterprovides means to alter decoded audio and video through a directed graph of connected filters.libavdeviceprovides an abstraction to access capture and playback devices.libswresampleimplements audio mixing and resampling routines.libswscaleimplements color conversion and scaling routines.
Tools
- ffmpeg is a command line toolbox to manipulate, convert and stream multimedia content.
- ffplay is a minimalistic multimedia player.
- ffprobe is a simple analysis tool to inspect multimedia content.
- Additional small tools such as
aviocat,ismindexandqt-faststart.
Documentation
The offline documentation is available in the doc/ directory.
The online documentation is available in the main website and in the wiki.
Examples
Coding examples are available in the doc/examples directory.
License
FFmpeg codebase is mainly LGPL-licensed with optional components licensed under GPL. Please refer to the LICENSE file for detailed information.
Contributing
Patches should be submitted to the ffmpeg-devel mailing list using
git format-patch or git send-email. Github pull requests should be
avoided because they are not part of our review process and will be ignored.