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# [NAME](#NAME)

libavdevice - multimedia device handling library

# [DESCRIPTION](#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.

# [SEE ALSO](#SEE_ALSO)

[**ffmpeg**(1)](/man/enterprise-packages/ffmpeg-8.0/ffmpeg.1), [**ffplay**(1)](/man/enterprise-packages/ffmpeg-8.0/ffplay.1), [**ffprobe**(1)](/man/enterprise-packages/ffmpeg-8.0/ffprobe.1), [**ffmpeg-devices**(1)](/man/enterprise-packages/ffmpeg-8.0/ffmpeg-devices.1), [**libavutil**(3)](/man/enterprise-packages/ffmpeg-8.0/libavutil.3), [**libavcodec**(3)](/man/enterprise-packages/ffmpeg-8.0/libavcodec.3), [**libavformat**(3)](/man/enterprise-packages/ffmpeg-8.0/libavformat.3)

# [AUTHORS](#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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Document: libavdevice(3) from ffmpeg-8.0 8.0.3-r11 (Chainguard OS)
Source: https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg