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+# Reisen [![GoDoc](https://godoc.org/github.com/zergon321/reisen?status.svg)](https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/zergon321/reisen)
+
+A simple library to extract video and audio frames from media containers (based on **libav**, i.e. **ffmpeg**).
+
+## Dependencies
+
+The library requires **libav** components to work:
+
+- **libavformat**
+- **libavcodec**
+- **libavutil**
+- **libswresample**
+- **libswscale**
+
+For **Arch**-based **Linux** distributions:
+
+```bash
+sudo pacman -S ffmpeg
+```
+
+For **Debian**-based **Linux** distributions:
+
+```bash
+sudo apt install libswscale-dev libavcodec-dev libavformat-dev libswresample-dev libavutil-dev
+```
+
+For **macOS**:
+
+```bash
+brew install libav
+```
+
+## Installation
+
+Just casually run this command:
+
+```bash
+go get github.com/zergon321/reisen
+```
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