A software named Thin Wrapper facilitates binary compatibility with applications and programming languages by working as an interface for FFmpeg. It serves as a bridge between FFmpeg and other software, enabling seamless communication.
AVbin is a useful software that acts as a thin wrapper for FFmpeg. It is designed to provide binary compatibility to applications and languages that require it. FFmpeg is a collection of audio and video codecs that are widely used in various projects such as VLC, gstreamer, mplayer, and xine. The development of FFmpeg is continuous, and as such, its developers rarely provide a release. Instead, SVN snapshots of the library must be statically linked to avoid incompatibilities between versions.
Fortunately, AVbin makes it possible for programs that require dynamic linkage to use FFmpeg. It accomplishes this by providing two main features. Firstly, it provides an accurate version number within the shared library. This allows applications to select the appropriate data structures and functions to use at runtime. Secondly, AVbin provides a simplified interface with an unchanging ABI that caters to the most common decoding functionalities within FFmpeg.
AVbin is distributed as a single dynamic library that depends on no other files or installations. This eliminates the complexities of building FFmpeg on platforms other than Linux. However, users can still choose to build it from source if they prefer. There are two ways of using AVbin. Linking against the avbin shared library provides access to all libavcodec, libavutil, and libavformat functions. Users can use the avbin_get_ffmpeg_revision function to determine the exact version of FFmpeg that has been linked and leverage the appropriate data structures and functions.
Given that the FFmpeg interface changes quite quickly, AVbin provides a simpler interface that is guaranteed to be backward and forward compatible with future releases. Overall, AVbin is a great tool that allows for seamless integration of FFmpeg within dynamic applications and languages.
Fortunately, AVbin makes it possible for programs that require dynamic linkage to use FFmpeg. It accomplishes this by providing two main features. Firstly, it provides an accurate version number within the shared library. This allows applications to select the appropriate data structures and functions to use at runtime. Secondly, AVbin provides a simplified interface with an unchanging ABI that caters to the most common decoding functionalities within FFmpeg.
AVbin is distributed as a single dynamic library that depends on no other files or installations. This eliminates the complexities of building FFmpeg on platforms other than Linux. However, users can still choose to build it from source if they prefer. There are two ways of using AVbin. Linking against the avbin shared library provides access to all libavcodec, libavutil, and libavformat functions. Users can use the avbin_get_ffmpeg_revision function to determine the exact version of FFmpeg that has been linked and leverage the appropriate data structures and functions.
Given that the FFmpeg interface changes quite quickly, AVbin provides a simpler interface that is guaranteed to be backward and forward compatible with future releases. Overall, AVbin is a great tool that allows for seamless integration of FFmpeg within dynamic applications and languages.
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