4 Muxers are configured elements in Libav which allow writing
5 multimedia streams to a particular type of file.
7 When you configure your Libav build, all the supported muxers
8 are enabled by default. You can list all available muxers using the
9 configure option @code{--list-muxers}.
11 You can disable all the muxers with the configure option
12 @code{--disable-muxers} and selectively enable / disable single muxers
13 with the options @code{--enable-muxer=@var{MUXER}} /
14 @code{--disable-muxer=@var{MUXER}}.
16 The option @code{-formats} of the ff* tools will display the list of
19 A description of some of the currently available muxers follows.
24 CRC (Cyclic Redundancy Check) testing format.
26 This muxer computes and prints the Adler-32 CRC of all the input audio
27 and video frames. By default audio frames are converted to signed
28 16-bit raw audio and video frames to raw video before computing the
31 The output of the muxer consists of a single line of the form:
32 CRC=0x@var{CRC}, where @var{CRC} is a hexadecimal number 0-padded to
33 8 digits containing the CRC for all the decoded input frames.
35 For example to compute the CRC of the input, and store it in the file
38 avconv -i INPUT -f crc out.crc
41 You can print the CRC to stdout with the command:
43 avconv -i INPUT -f crc -
46 You can select the output format of each frame with @command{avconv} by
47 specifying the audio and video codec and format. For example to
48 compute the CRC of the input audio converted to PCM unsigned 8-bit
49 and the input video converted to MPEG-2 video, use the command:
51 avconv -i INPUT -c:a pcm_u8 -c:v mpeg2video -f crc -
54 See also the @ref{framecrc} muxer.
59 Per-frame CRC (Cyclic Redundancy Check) testing format.
61 This muxer computes and prints the Adler-32 CRC for each decoded audio
62 and video frame. By default audio frames are converted to signed
63 16-bit raw audio and video frames to raw video before computing the
66 The output of the muxer consists of a line for each audio and video
67 frame of the form: @var{stream_index}, @var{frame_dts},
68 @var{frame_size}, 0x@var{CRC}, where @var{CRC} is a hexadecimal
69 number 0-padded to 8 digits containing the CRC of the decoded frame.
71 For example to compute the CRC of each decoded frame in the input, and
72 store it in the file @file{out.crc}:
74 avconv -i INPUT -f framecrc out.crc
77 You can print the CRC of each decoded frame to stdout with the command:
79 avconv -i INPUT -f framecrc -
82 You can select the output format of each frame with @command{avconv} by
83 specifying the audio and video codec and format. For example, to
84 compute the CRC of each decoded input audio frame converted to PCM
85 unsigned 8-bit and of each decoded input video frame converted to
86 MPEG-2 video, use the command:
88 avconv -i INPUT -c:a pcm_u8 -c:v mpeg2video -f framecrc -
91 See also the @ref{crc} muxer.
97 The image file muxer writes video frames to image files.
99 The output filenames are specified by a pattern, which can be used to
100 produce sequentially numbered series of files.
101 The pattern may contain the string "%d" or "%0@var{N}d", this string
102 specifies the position of the characters representing a numbering in
103 the filenames. If the form "%0@var{N}d" is used, the string
104 representing the number in each filename is 0-padded to @var{N}
105 digits. The literal character '%' can be specified in the pattern with
108 If the pattern contains "%d" or "%0@var{N}d", the first filename of
109 the file list specified will contain the number 1, all the following
110 numbers will be sequential.
112 The pattern may contain a suffix which is used to automatically
113 determine the format of the image files to write.
115 For example the pattern "img-%03d.bmp" will specify a sequence of
116 filenames of the form @file{img-001.bmp}, @file{img-002.bmp}, ...,
117 @file{img-010.bmp}, etc.
118 The pattern "img%%-%d.jpg" will specify a sequence of filenames of the
119 form @file{img%-1.jpg}, @file{img%-2.jpg}, ..., @file{img%-10.jpg},
122 The following example shows how to use @command{avconv} for creating a
123 sequence of files @file{img-001.jpeg}, @file{img-002.jpeg}, ...,
124 taking one image every second from the input video:
126 avconv -i in.avi -vsync 1 -r 1 -f image2 'img-%03d.jpeg'
129 Note that with @command{avconv}, if the format is not specified with the
130 @code{-f} option and the output filename specifies an image file
131 format, the image2 muxer is automatically selected, so the previous
132 command can be written as:
134 avconv -i in.avi -vsync 1 -r 1 'img-%03d.jpeg'
137 Note also that the pattern must not necessarily contain "%d" or
138 "%0@var{N}d", for example to create a single image file
139 @file{img.jpeg} from the input video you can employ the command:
141 avconv -i in.avi -f image2 -frames:v 1 img.jpeg
146 MPEG transport stream muxer.
148 This muxer implements ISO 13818-1 and part of ETSI EN 300 468.
150 The muxer options are:
153 @item -mpegts_original_network_id @var{number}
154 Set the original_network_id (default 0x0001). This is unique identifier
155 of a network in DVB. Its main use is in the unique identification of a
156 service through the path Original_Network_ID, Transport_Stream_ID.
157 @item -mpegts_transport_stream_id @var{number}
158 Set the transport_stream_id (default 0x0001). This identifies a
160 @item -mpegts_service_id @var{number}
161 Set the service_id (default 0x0001) also known as program in DVB.
162 @item -mpegts_pmt_start_pid @var{number}
163 Set the first PID for PMT (default 0x1000, max 0x1f00).
164 @item -mpegts_start_pid @var{number}
165 Set the first PID for data packets (default 0x0100, max 0x0f00).
168 The recognized metadata settings in mpegts muxer are @code{service_provider}
169 and @code{service_name}. If they are not set the default for
170 @code{service_provider} is "Libav" and the default for
171 @code{service_name} is "Service01".
174 avconv -i file.mpg -c copy \
175 -mpegts_original_network_id 0x1122 \
176 -mpegts_transport_stream_id 0x3344 \
177 -mpegts_service_id 0x5566 \
178 -mpegts_pmt_start_pid 0x1500 \
179 -mpegts_start_pid 0x150 \
180 -metadata service_provider="Some provider" \
181 -metadata service_name="Some Channel" \
189 This muxer does not generate any output file, it is mainly useful for
190 testing or benchmarking purposes.
192 For example to benchmark decoding with @command{avconv} you can use the
195 avconv -benchmark -i INPUT -f null out.null
198 Note that the above command does not read or write the @file{out.null}
199 file, but specifying the output file is required by the @command{avconv}
202 Alternatively you can write the command as:
204 avconv -benchmark -i INPUT -f null -
209 Matroska container muxer.
211 This muxer implements the matroska and webm container specs.
213 The recognized metadata settings in this muxer are:
217 @item title=@var{title name}
218 Name provided to a single track
223 @item language=@var{language name}
224 Specifies the language of the track in the Matroska languages form
229 @item STEREO_MODE=@var{mode}
230 Stereo 3D video layout of two views in a single video track
235 Both views are arranged side by side, Left-eye view is on the left
237 Both views are arranged in top-bottom orientation, Left-eye view is at bottom
239 Both views are arranged in top-bottom orientation, Left-eye view is on top
240 @item checkerboard_rl
241 Each view is arranged in a checkerboard interleaved pattern, Left-eye view being first
242 @item checkerboard_lr
243 Each view is arranged in a checkerboard interleaved pattern, Right-eye view being first
244 @item row_interleaved_rl
245 Each view is constituted by a row based interleaving, Right-eye view is first row
246 @item row_interleaved_lr
247 Each view is constituted by a row based interleaving, Left-eye view is first row
248 @item col_interleaved_rl
249 Both views are arranged in a column based interleaving manner, Right-eye view is first column
250 @item col_interleaved_lr
251 Both views are arranged in a column based interleaving manner, Left-eye view is first column
252 @item anaglyph_cyan_red
253 All frames are in anaglyph format viewable through red-cyan filters
255 Both views are arranged side by side, Right-eye view is on the left
256 @item anaglyph_green_magenta
257 All frames are in anaglyph format viewable through green-magenta filters
259 Both eyes laced in one Block, Left-eye view is first
261 Both eyes laced in one Block, Right-eye view is first
265 For example a 3D WebM clip can be created using the following command line:
267 avconv -i sample_left_right_clip.mpg -an -c:v libvpx -metadata STEREO_MODE=left_right -y stereo_clip.webm