AVBlocks – Video & Audio SDK for Encoding, Decoding and Transcoding

AVBlocks is a cross-platform Video SDK and Audio SDK for audio and video encoding, decoding, transcoding and processing in C++, .NET (C#, VB, F#) and Python on Windows, macOS and Linux.

Audio / Video coding Blocks — one SDK for the whole media pipeline.

A Video SDK and Audio SDK in one

AVBlocks gives developers a single, unified video SDK and audio SDK for building transcoding, conversion and media-processing pipelines in C++, .NET (C#, VB, F#) and Python — without the complexity of FFmpeg or platform-specific media frameworks.

Solutions

By product:

• Video SDK — video encoding, decoding, transcoding and processing

• Audio SDK — audio encoding, decoding, conversion and processing

• Voice SDK — speech & telephony audio (Opus, G.711, G.726)

• Transcoding SDK — convert whole media files between formats

By codec / format:

• H.264 Encoder & Decoder SDK

• H.265 / HEVC Encoder & Decoder SDK

• AAC Encoder & Decoder SDK

• MP3 Encoder & Decoder SDK

• Opus Encoder & Decoder SDK

• MPEG-2 Encoder & Decoder SDK

• WebM / VP9 / VP8 Encoder & Decoder SDK

• MP4 Transcoder SDK

Comparisons:

• AVBlocks vs FFmpeg — a commercial, supported FFmpeg alternative

Supported audio codecs

• LPCM Audio

• MPEG-1 Audio and MPEG-2 Audio (Layer 1, 2 and 3)

• AAC Audio (MPEG-2 Part 7 / MPEG-4 Part 3)

• Vorbis Audio

• Opus Audio

• Dolby Digital Audio (AC3) (decode only)

• Windows Media Audio (encode on Windows, decode)

• Speech Audio / Voice Audio (G.711 / G.726)

Supported video codecs

• High Efficiency Video Coding (H.265 / HEVC / MPEG-H Part 2)

• Advanced Video Coding (H.264 / MPEG-4 AVC / MPEG-4 Part 10)

• WebM Video (Google VP8 and VP9)

• VC-1 Video

• MPEG-4 Video (MPEG-4 Part 2)

• MJPEG Video (decode only)

• Windows Media Video (encode on Windows, decode)

• Mobile Video (H.263 / 3GPP / 3GPP2)

• MPEG-2 Video (H.262 / MPEG-2 Part)

• MPEG-1 Video (MPEG-1 Part 2)

• H.261 Video

Supported file formats

• Audio Video Interleaved (AVI)

• Advanced Systems Format (ASF / WMA / WMV)

• MPEG-1 Part 1 (MPEG Systems / MPG)

• MPEG-2 Part 1 (MPEG-2 Program Stream / MPEG-PS)

• MPEG-2 Part 1 (MPEG-2 Transport Stream / MPEG-TS / MTS / M2TS)

• MPEG-4 Part 14 (M4A / MP4)

• Waveform Audio File Format (WAVE / WAV)

• WebM Container Format (WEBM)

• Duck IVF (IVF) for VP8 and VP9 video

Platforms

• Available for Windows, macOS, and Linux (Ubuntu)

Programming languages

• C++ SDK

• Python SDK

• .NET SDK (C# - Visual Basic - F#)