# Libavdevice Documentation

## Table of Contents

## 1 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.

## 2 See Also ¶

ffmpeg, ffplay, ffprobe, ffmpeg-devices, libavutil, libavcodec, 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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