av: Working with Audio and Video in R

Bindings to 'FFmpeg' <http://www.ffmpeg.org/> AV library for working with audio and video in R. Generates high quality video from images or R graphics with custom audio. Also offers high performance tools for reading raw audio, creating 'spectrograms', and converting between countless audio / video formats. This package interfaces directly to the C API and does not require any command line utilities.

Version:	0.9.6
Depends:	R (≥ 3.5)
Imports:	graphics
Suggests:	curl, testthat, ps, ggplot2, gapminder
Published:	2025-10-20
DOI:	10.32614/CRAN.package.av
Author:	Jeroen Ooms [aut, cre]
Maintainer:	Jeroen Ooms <jeroenooms at gmail.com>
BugReports:	https://github.com/ropensci/av/issues
License:	MIT + file LICENSE
URL:	https://ropensci.r-universe.dev/av, https://docs.ropensci.org/av/
NeedsCompilation:	yes
SystemRequirements:	FFmpeg (>= 3.2); with at least libx264 and lame (mp3) drivers. MacOS Homebrew: ffmpeg. Debian/Ubuntu: libavfilter-dev. Fedora/RHEL: either ffmpeg-devel from https://rpmfusion.org (preferred), or libavfilter-free-devel which is a more limited version available on Fedora/EPEL9.
Language:	en-US
Materials:	NEWS
CRAN checks:	av results

Documentation:

Reference manual:

av.html , av.pdf

Downloads:

Package source:	av_0.9.6.tar.gz
Windows binaries:	r-devel: av_0.9.6.zip, r-release: av_0.9.6.zip, r-oldrel: av_0.9.6.zip
macOS binaries:	r-release (arm64): av_0.9.6.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): av_0.9.6.tgz, r-release (x86_64): av_0.9.6.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): av_0.9.6.tgz
Old sources:	av archive

Reverse dependencies:

Reverse imports:	animl, BioTrajectory, fluidsynth, GWmodelVis, heartbeatr, praatpicture, vmeasur
Reverse suggests:	atrrr, diegr, gdalcubes, gganimate, googleLanguageR, magick, musicXML, polarzonoid, rayshader, sequenceR, sonicscrewdriver, spatialHeatmap, tmap, zonohedra

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