FFmpeg libav tutorial

FFmpeg libav tutorial, learn how media works from basic to transmuxing, transcoding and more. Most of the code in here will be in C but don't worry: you can easily understand and apply it to your preferred language. FFmpeg libav has lots of bindings for many languages like python, go and even if your language doesn't have it, you can still support it through the ffi (here's an example with Lua). We'll start with a quick lesson about what is video, audio, codec and container and then we'll go to a crash course on how to use FFmpeg command line and finally we'll write code, feel free to skip directly to the section Learn FFmpeg libav the Hard Way. Some people used to say that the Internet video streaming is the future of the traditional TV, in any case, the FFmpeg is something that is worth studying.