FFmpeg is one of the best multimedia frameworks that contains various tools for different tasks. For example the ffplay is a portable media player that can be used to play audio/video files, ffmpeg can convert between different file formats, ffserver can be used to stream live broadcasts and ffprobe is able to analyze multimedia stream.

This framework is really powerful due to the diversity of available tools in it, that provide the best technical solution for the user. According to the description of FFmpeg in the official website, the reason for having such a great multimedia framework is the combination of the best free software options available.

The FFmpeg framework offers high security and the reason for this is the seriosity of the developers when they review the code, it is always done with security in mind.

I am very sure you will find this framework very useful when you would like to do some digital audio and video streaming or recording. There are many other practical thing that you can do with the help of the FFmpeg framework such as converting your wav file to an mp3 one, encode and decode your videos or even scale them.