---
name: "libavdevice"
section: "3"
platform: "linux"
package: "ffmpeg"
version: "2:9.0.2-2"
release: "Arch Linux 2026-11-01"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/libavdevice"
---

# libavdevice(3)

multimedia device handling library

## NAME

libavdevice - multimedia device handling library

## 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

[**ffmpeg**(1)](/ffmpeg/1.md), [**ffplay**(1)](/ffplay/1.md), [**ffprobe**(1)](/ffprobe/1.md), [**ffmpeg-devices**(1)](/ffmpeg-devices/1.md), [**libavutil**(3)](/libavutil/3.md), [**libavcodec**(3)](/libavcodec/3.md), [**libavformat**(3)](/libavformat/3.md)

## 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.