FFmpeg

• 2015-An ffmpeg and SDL Tutorial: This tutorial is meant for people with a decent programming background. At the very least you should know C and have some idea about concepts like queues, mutexes, and so on. You should know some basics about multimedia; things like waveforms and such, but you don’t need to know a lot, as I explain a lot of those concepts in this tutorial.

• 2022-FFmpeg: The Ultimate Guide: This guide covers the ins and outs of FFmpeg starting with fundamental concepts and moving to media transcoding and video and audio processing providing practical examples along the way.

OpenSource

• 2019-ffmpeg.wasm : ffmpeg.wasm is a pure WebAssembly/JavaScript port of FFmpeg. It enables video & audio record, convert and stream right inside browsers.

• Learn FFmpeg libav the Hard Way: I was looking for a tutorial/book that would teach me how to start to use FFmpeg as a library (a.k.a. libav) and then I found the “How to write a video player in less than 1k lines” tutorial. Unfortunately it was deprecated, so I decided to write this one.

• 2015-How to Write a Video Player in Less Than 1000 Lines: There is a sample program that comes with ffmpeg called ffplay. It is a simple C program that implements a complete video player using ffmpeg.