audio video programming in C , linux

I want开发者_JAVA技巧 to learn ffmpeg, to implement file format conversion and player in C language under fedora linux. Where I can get the basic details of how audio video files are played in PC? Where I can get the best material for audio video programming?

On http://dranger.com/ffmpeg/ you find a very nice introduction to the ffmpeg c-api

Start by watching that : http://xiph.org/video/vid1.shtml You will need digital signal processing background : http://www.dspguide.com/pdfbook.htm Alsa programming : http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6735 For video display you can use SDL as explained by Friedrich.