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Martin Storsjö f4e72eb5a3 configure: Enable -fno-common for Darwin targets, avoid linker warnings
Since GCC 10 and llvm.org Clang 11, -fno-common is the default.
However Apple's Xcode Clang hasn't followed suit yet, and still
defaults to -fcommon.

Compiling with -fcommon causes uninitialized global variables to
be treated as "common" (which allows multiple object files to have
similar definitions).

Common variables seem to have the issue that their intended alignment
isn't signaled, so the linker assumes that they may need alignment
according to their full size.

With large global tables, this can lead to linker warnings like
this, with Xcode 16.3:

    ld: warning: reducing alignment of section __DATA,__common from 0x8000 to 0x4000 because it exceeds segment maximum alignment

This can be reproduced with a small snippet like this:

    char table[16385];
    int main(int argc, char* argv[]) { return 0; }

Compiling with -fno-common avoids this issue and warning, and
matches the default behaviour of other compilers. (Compiling with
-fno-common also avoids the risk of accidentally accepting
duplicate definitions of global variables, as long as they are
uninitialized.)

Signed-off-by: Martin Storsjö <martin@martin.st>
2025-05-05 11:35:11 +03:00
compat compat/w32pthreads: change pthread_t into pointer to malloced struct 2024-12-16 09:43:19 +01:00
doc avcodec: add APV encoder using liboapv 2025-05-04 16:21:35 -03:00
ffbuild ffbuild: fix include path for uninstalled .pc files 2025-04-22 21:04:36 +02:00
fftools fftools/ffprobe: Disable stderr buffering on Windows 2025-05-03 07:58:08 +02:00
libavcodec avcodec/exr: add support for half-float DWAA/B compression 2025-05-04 16:22:28 -03:00
libavdevice avfoundation: Fix compilation for OSes other than macOS and iOS 2025-04-04 17:12:33 +03:00
libavfilter avfilter/drawutils: narrow variable scopes 2025-04-22 20:59:16 +02:00
libavformat avformat/apvdec: also look for an au_info PBU during probing 2025-05-04 16:26:57 -03:00
libavutil avutil/opt: Print default option value for AV_OPT_TYPE_INT64 2025-05-03 07:56:46 +02:00
libpostproc postproc/tests/blocktest: Test several filter combinations 2025-05-03 18:48:27 +02:00
libswresample libs: bump major version for all libraries 2025-03-28 14:44:34 -03:00
libswscale swscale/x86/rgb2rgb: Deduplicate ASM constants 2025-04-13 22:49:21 +02:00
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tests postproc/tests/blocktest: Test several filter combinations 2025-05-03 18:48:27 +02:00
tools tools/target_dec_fuzzer: Assert on AVERROR_BUG 2025-04-25 12:35:48 +02:00
.gitattributes gitattributes: End merge conflicts in Changelog 2025-03-17 15:26:10 +01:00
.gitignore ffmpeg/repo: Add dot-folders in the repository root to .gitignore 2025-04-19 17:29:12 +02:00
.mailmap mailmap: add entry for myself 2024-07-15 01:59:37 +02:00
Changelog avcodec: add APV encoder using liboapv 2025-05-04 16:21:35 -03:00
configure configure: Enable -fno-common for Darwin targets, avoid linker warnings 2025-05-05 11:35:11 +03:00
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COPYING.LGPLv3
CREDITS Use https for repository links 2023-03-01 21:59:10 +01:00
INSTALL.md INSTALL: explain the circular dependency issue and solution 2024-11-03 19:35:23 +01:00
LICENSE.md avfilter/vf_geq: Relicense to LGPL 2019-12-28 11:20:48 +01:00
MAINTAINERS MAINTAINERS: Add myself 2025-03-25 11:38:21 +01:00
Makefile configure: Add wasm as a fake arch 2024-12-04 16:43:06 +08:00
README.md README: fix typo and description of libavfilter 2021-10-08 09:44:34 +05:30
RELEASE RELEASE: update release number after release/7.1 branch 2024-10-09 01:55:50 +02:00

FFmpeg README

FFmpeg is a collection of libraries and tools to process multimedia content such as audio, video, subtitles and related metadata.

Libraries

  • libavcodec provides implementation of a wider range of codecs.
  • libavformat implements streaming protocols, container formats and basic I/O access.
  • libavutil includes hashers, decompressors and miscellaneous utility functions.
  • libavfilter provides means to alter decoded audio and video through a directed graph of connected filters.
  • libavdevice provides an abstraction to access capture and playback devices.
  • libswresample implements audio mixing and resampling routines.
  • libswscale implements color conversion and scaling routines.

Tools

  • ffmpeg is a command line toolbox to manipulate, convert and stream multimedia content.
  • ffplay is a minimalistic multimedia player.
  • ffprobe is a simple analysis tool to inspect multimedia content.
  • Additional small tools such as aviocat, ismindex and qt-faststart.

Documentation

The offline documentation is available in the doc/ directory.

The online documentation is available in the main website and in the wiki.

Examples

Coding examples are available in the doc/examples directory.

License

FFmpeg codebase is mainly LGPL-licensed with optional components licensed under GPL. Please refer to the LICENSE file for detailed information.

Contributing

Patches should be submitted to the ffmpeg-devel mailing list using git format-patch or git send-email. Github pull requests should be avoided because they are not part of our review process and will be ignored.