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@settitle Libavutil Documentation
@titlepage
@center @titlefont{Libavutil Documentation}
@end titlepage

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@contents

@chapter Description
@c man begin DESCRIPTION

The libavutil library is a utility library to aid portable
multimedia programming. It contains safe portable string functions,
random number generators, data structures, additional mathematics
functions, cryptography and multimedia related functionality (like
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enumerations for pixel and sample formats). It is not a library for
code needed by both libavcodec and libavformat.

The goals for this library is to be:

@table @strong
@item Modular
It should have few interdependencies and the possibility of disabling individual
parts during @command{./configure}.

@item Small
Both sources and objects should be small.

@item Efficient
It should have low CPU and memory usage.

@item Useful
It should avoid useless features that almost no one needs.
@end table
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@c man end DESCRIPTION

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@chapter See Also

@ifhtml
@url{ffmpeg.html,ffmpeg}, @url{ffplay.html,ffplay}, @url{ffprobe.html,ffprobe}, @url{ffserver.html,ffserver},
@url{ffmpeg-utils.html,ffmpeg-utils}
@end ifhtml

@ifnothtml
ffmpeg(1), ffplay(1), ffprobe(1), ffserver(1),
ffmpeg-utils(1)
@end ifnothtml

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@include authors.texi

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@ignore

@setfilename libavutil
@settitle multimedia-biased utility library

@end ignore

@bye