PyAV Documentation¶

PyAV is a Pythonic binding for FFmpeg. We aim to provide all of the power and control of the underlying library, but manage the gritty details as much as possible.

Currently we provide the basics of:

libavformat: containers, audio/video/subtitle streams, packets;
libavdevice (by specifying a format to containers);
libavcodec: Codec, CodecContext, audio/video frames, data planes, subtitles;
libavfilter: Filter, Graph;
libscscale: VideoReformatter;
libavresample and/or libswresample: AudioResampler;
and a few more utilities.

Basic Demo¶

import av

container = av.open(path_to_video)

for frame in container.decode(video=0):
    frame.to_image().save('frame-%04d.jpg' % frame.index)

Contents¶

Indices and Tables¶