FFmpeg

🧬 AI profile — grown from 6ic coverage FFmpeg is a free and open-source multimedia framework capable of decoding, encoding, transcoding, muxing, demuxing, streaming, filtering, and playing almost any audio or video format. It's a crucial tool for developers and content creators, often used as a backend for various media players and applications. The expiration of the MPEG-4 Visual patent marks a significant milestone for FFmpeg, allowing it to freely implement and improve support for this widely used video compression standard.