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

# libavfilter(3)

multimedia filtering library

## NAME

libavfilter - multimedia filtering library

## DESCRIPTION

The libavfilter library provides a generic audio/video filtering framework containing several filters, sources and sinks.

## SEE ALSO

[**ffmpeg**(1)](/man/ffmpeg/1.md), [**ffplay**(1)](/man/ffplay/1.md), [**ffprobe**(1)](/man/ffprobe/1.md), [**ffmpeg-filters**(1)](/man/ffmpeg-filters/1.md), [**libavutil**(3)](/man/libavutil/3.md), [**libswscale**(3)](/man/libswscale/3.md), [**libswresample**(3)](/man/libswresample/3.md), [**libavcodec**(3)](/man/libavcodec/3.md), [**libavformat**(3)](/man/libavformat/3.md), [**libavdevice**(3)](/man/libavdevice/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.