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NAME

libavdevice - multimedia device handling library

DESCRIPTION

The libavdevice library provides a generic framework for grabbing from and rendering to many common multimedia input/output devices, and supports several input and output devices, including Video4Linux2, VfW, DShow, and ALSA.

SEE ALSO

ffmpeg(1), ffplay(1), ffprobe(1), ffmpeg-devices(1), libavutil(3), libavcodec(3), libavformat(3)

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.
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