Welcome to the TorchCodec documentation!
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TorchCodec is a Python library for decoding video and audio data into PyTorch
tensors, on CPU and CUDA GPU. It also supports audio encoding, and video encoding will come soon!
It aims to be fast, easy to use, and well integrated into the PyTorch ecosystem.
If you want to use PyTorch to train ML models on videos and audio, TorchCodec is
how you turn these into data.

We achieve these capabilities through:

* Pythonic APIs that mirror Python and PyTorch conventions.
* Relying on `FFmpeg <https://www.ffmpeg.org/>`_ to do the decoding / encoding.
  TorchCodec uses the version of FFmpeg you already have installed. FMPEG is a
  mature library with broad coverage available on most systems. It is, however,
  not easy to use.  TorchCodec abstracts FFmpeg's complexity to ensure it is
  used correctly and efficiently.
* Returning data as PyTorch tensors, ready to be fed into PyTorch transforms
  or used directly to train models.

Installation instructions
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        Installation instructions
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        :link: https://github.com/pytorch/torchcodec?tab=readme-ov-file#installing-torchcodec
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        How to install TorchCodec

Decoding
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        Getting Started with TorchCodec
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        :link: generated_examples/decoding/basic_example.html
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        A simple video decoding example

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        Audio Decoding
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        :link: generated_examples/decoding/audio_decoding.html
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        A simple audio decoding example

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        GPU decoding
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        :link: generated_examples/decoding/basic_cuda_example.html
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        A simple example demonstrating CUDA GPU decoding

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        Streaming video
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        How to efficiently decode videos from the cloud

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        Parallel decoding
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        :link: generated_examples/decoding/parallel_decoding.html
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        How to decode a video with multiple processes or threads.

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        Clip sampling
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        :link: generated_examples/decoding/sampling.html
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        How to sample regular and random clips from a video


Encoding
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        Audio Encoding
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        How encode audio samples

.. toctree::
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   :caption: TorchCodec documentation
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   Home <self>
   glossary

.. toctree::
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   :caption: Examples and tutorials
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   Installation instructions <https://github.com/pytorch/torchcodec?tab=readme-ov-file#installing-torchcodec>
   generated_examples/index


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   :caption: API Reference
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   api_ref_torchcodec
   api_ref_decoders
   api_ref_encoders
   api_ref_samplers