GPAC Project on Advanced Content

GPAC Project on Advanced Content (GPAC, a <a href="/facts/Recursive_acronym/xuAHUPW6">recursive acronym</a>) is an open-source multimedia framework focused on modularity and standards compliance. GPAC was created as an implementation of the <a href="/facts/MPEG-4/6svV1w2H">MPEG-4</a> Systems standard written in <a href="/facts/ANSI_C/rPKeEuPm">ANSI C</a> and later extended in Streaming Media. GPAC provides tools to process, inspect, package, stream, media playback and interact with media content. Such content can be any combination of audio, video, subtitles, metadata, encrypted media, rendering and <a href="/facts/ECMAScript/M7nDHsB5">ECMAScript</a>.
GPAC provides three sets of tools based on a core library called libgpac:

<ul><li>A multimedia packager, MP4Box</li>
<li>A general pipeline engine, gpac, introduced in version 1.0 (2019)</li>
<li>A media player.</li></ul>
GPAC is <a href="/facts/Cross-platform/16zqdvNR">cross-platform</a>. It is written in (almost 100% ANSI) <a href="/facts/C_(programming_language)/Ky2No763">C</a> for portability reasons, attempting to keep the memory footprint as low as possible. It is currently running under <a href="/facts/Microsoft_Windows/bwhAhuSL">Windows</a>, <a href="/facts/Linux/9FvCKSTq">Linux</a>, MacOS X, iOS, Android, and many other systems.
GPAC is best known for its wide MP4/ISOBMFF capabilities and is popular among video enthusiasts, academic researchers, standardization bodies, and professional broadcasters.

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GPAC Project on Advanced Content