Libav provides cross-platform tools and libraries to convert, manipulate and stream a wide range of multimedia formats and protocols.

Libav is free software licensed under the LGPL or GPL depending on your choice of configuration options. If you use Libav or its constituent libraries, you must adhere to the terms of the license in question. You can find basic compliance information and get licensing help on our license and legal considerations page.

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News

May 12, 2013

Today, we are happy to present you updates to our latest two release branches: Libav 9.6, and Libav 0.8.7. Both point releases include a number of security and stability fixes. For details, please refer to the verbose Changelog files for version 9.6 and version 0.8.7.

Distributors and system integrators are encouraged to update and share their patches against our release branches.

You can download the new release, as usual, from our download page.

April 21, 2013

Thanks to the Google Security Team, who have provided us with a number of samples, we have been able to fix a number of security relevant issues. Many of these fixes are now available in the current update, Libav 9.5. For details, please refer to the verbose Changelog file.

Distributors and system integrators are encouraged to update and share their patches against our release branches.

You can download the new release, as usual, from our download page.