Update for 10-01-22 12:45

tech/development.wiki

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 * [[sdl2|SDL2]] - Simple Direct Media Layer (Low level X Windows and graphics)
 * [[libcurl|Libcurl]] - Curl the tool, but the API
 * [[periodictable|Periodic Table]] - Python periodic table
+* [[ffmpeg]] - video/media library
 
 == Tools ==
 

tech/ffmpeg.wiki

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 = FFmpeg =
 
-Command line tool for working with video
+Command line tool for working with video. Also a library
 This is just a collection of common tasks
 
 == Rencode as another video ==
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 ffmpeg -i in.mp4 -ss 00:00:30.0 -c copy -t 00:00:10.0 out.mp4
   }}}
 
+== Library ==
+
+The C library for ffmpeg has poor documentation.
+
+Movie files consist of several components in the FFMPEG model.
+
+- Container 
+  - The file itself
+  - MKV, AVI, etc
+- Streams 
+  - Several streams in a container
+  - IE audio stream, video stream, subtitle stream, etc
+- Frames 
+  - Elements or samples of a stream
+- Codec 
+  - Define how data is encoded and decoded 
+  - MP3, DivX, x264, etc
+- Packets 
+  - Bits of data in a stream that are decoded into raw frames
+
 [[index]]