FFmpeg是一套可以用来记录、转换数字音频、视频，并能将其转化为流的开源计算机程序。它包括了目前领先的音/视频编码库libavcodec。FFmpeg是在Linux下开发出来的，但它可以在包括Windows在内的大多数操作系统中编译。这个项目是由Fabrice Bellard发起的，现在由Michael Niedermayer主持。可以轻易地实现多种视频格式之间的相互转换，例如可以将摄录下的视频avi等转成现在视频网站所采用的flv格式。
视频转码工具FFmpeg 2014-03-24发布2.2正式版.新的产品系列。之前产品线为2.1.4,1.2.6.FFmpeg在视频网站应该是必用的转码工具。
新特性：
- HNM version 4 demuxer and video decoder
- Live HDS muxer
- setsar/setdar filters now support variables in ratio expressions
- elbg filter
- string validation in ffprobe
- support for decoding through VDPAU in ffmpeg (the -hwaccel option)
- complete Voxware MetaSound decoder
- remove mp3_header_compress bitstream filter
- Windows resource files for shared libraries
- aeval filter
- stereoscopic 3d metadata handling
- WebP encoding via libwebp
- ATRAC3+ decoder
- VP8 in Ogg demuxing
- side & metadata support in NUT
- framepack filter
- XYZ12 rawvideo support in NUT
- Exif metadata support in WebP decoder
- OpenGL device
- Use metadata_header_padding to control padding in ID3 tags (currently used in
MP3, AIFF, and OMA files), FLAC header, and the AVI "junk" block.
- Mirillis FIC video decoder
- Support DNx444
- libx265 encoder
- dejudder filter
- Autodetect VDA like all other hardware accelerations
FFmpeg 2.2下载：http://ffmpeg.org/releases/ffmpeg-2.2.tar.bz2 - Live HDS muxer
- setsar/setdar filters now support variables in ratio expressions
- elbg filter
- string validation in ffprobe
- support for decoding through VDPAU in ffmpeg (the -hwaccel option)
- complete Voxware MetaSound decoder
- remove mp3_header_compress bitstream filter
- Windows resource files for shared libraries
- aeval filter
- stereoscopic 3d metadata handling
- WebP encoding via libwebp
- ATRAC3+ decoder
- VP8 in Ogg demuxing
- side & metadata support in NUT
- framepack filter
- XYZ12 rawvideo support in NUT
- Exif metadata support in WebP decoder
- OpenGL device
- Use metadata_header_padding to control padding in ID3 tags (currently used in
MP3, AIFF, and OMA files), FLAC header, and the AVI "junk" block.
- Mirillis FIC video decoder
- Support DNx444
- libx265 encoder
- dejudder filter
- Autodetect VDA like all other hardware accelerations