No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
av has 30.2M monthly downloads and 3K GitHub stars. Version 18.0.0 supports Python 3.11+, first published in 2013.
It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Jul 2026.
It is used by 529 tracked packages, including sglang, faster-whisper and livekit-agents.
GitHub topics include ffmpeg and pyav.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
75
Adoption
100
Community
60
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
4 days ago
Monthly downloads
30,245,428
•
Active
Activity within 30 days
Stable
Activity within 31-180 days
Minimal
Activity within 181-365 days, or no activity data
At Risk
No activity for > 365 days, but > 10,000 monthly downloads
Archived
Repository flagged as archived on GitHub
How the popularity category was determined
Monthly downloads
30,245,428
Stars
3,237
Stars per 1k downloads
0.11
•
Industry Standard
> 10,000,000 monthly downloads
Hidden Gem
< 0.5 stars per 1k downloads and > 100,000 monthly downloads
Community Favorite
> 5 stars per 1k downloads
Rising Star
Balanced ratio of stars to downloads
Unknown
Fewer than 1,000 monthly downloads, or no star data
How download momentum is calculated
Week daily avg
1,223,447
Month daily avg
1,008,181
Momentum
+21.4%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.11
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.12 or newer
•
Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.9, 3.10, or 3.11
Legacy
Supports 3.8 or older (or Python 2)
Unknown
No requires_python specified or unparseable
License categories
License
BSD-3-Clause
•
Permissive
MIT, Apache, BSD, ISC, Unlicense, CC0, etc.
Copyleft
GPL, LGPL, AGPL, MPL, EPL, etc.
Proprietary
Commercial, all rights reserved, custom EULAs
Unknown
No license specified, or none of the above match
How the release cadence was determined
Last release
4 days ago
Total releases
57
Releases/year
4.5
Rapid
Last release within 365 days and > 12 releases/year
•
Regular
Last release within 365 days
Slow
Last release 366-730 days ago
Stalled
Last release > 730 days ago, or no releases
Unknown
No usable release date available
How contributor risk was determined
Contributors
106
Monthly downloads
30,245,428
High Load
≤ 2 contributors and ≥ 50,000 monthly downloads
Moderate Load
< 10 contributors and ≥ 500,000 monthly downloads
Low Load
< 25 contributors and ≥ 5,000,000 monthly downloads, or sole maintainer with ≥ 10,000 monthly downloads
•
Balanced
Enough contributors for the package's popularity
Unknown
No contributor data available
Engagement
68
Issue Burden
3.1
per 1k stars
Discussions
78.2
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
24.1%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
PR Velocity
Quiet
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
454.4K
Windows
77.7K
macOS
27.0K
Python Versions
3.12
43.3%
237.3K
3.11
26.5%
145.3K
3.13
11.6%
63.6K
3.10
10.7%
58.6K
3.14
7.8%
42.7K
Top Countries
1.
US
662.5K
US
2.
DK
82.8K
DK
3.
IN
22.5K
IN
4.
SE
21.2K
SE
5.
NL
20.6K
NL
6.
DE
15.1K
DE
7.
SG
13.6K
SG
8.
JP
13.3K
JP
9.
CN
12.6K
CN
10.
GB
10.1K
GB
Dependencies
0
No dependencies
Used By
529
- sglang
- faster-whisper
- livekit-agents
- qwen-vl-utils
- aiortc
- llamafactory
- qwen-omni-utils
- inference-gpu
- pymobiledevice3
- lerobot
- manim
- gllm-inference-binary
- inference
- crewai-files
- audiolab
- streamlit-webrtc
- pyrit
- audiocraft
- uiprotect
- bithuman
- browser-act-cli
- rvc-python
- pycat-napari
- vision-agents
- pyverse2d
- nerfstudio
- vllm-omni
- horde-engine
- physical-ai-av
- lmms-eval
- chatwalaau
- agentwire-dev
- sapiens-transformers
- mlx-openai-server
- pyorbbecsdk2
- robot
- jj-pytorchvideo
- simli-ai
- renumics-spotlight
- musicdl
- picamera2
- pixeltable
- neuracore
- osc-data
- scope
- av2
- avdeepfake1m
- sendspin
- videosdk
- vsaiortc
Package Information
License
BSD-3-Clause
First Release
November 11, 2013
Last Release
5 days ago
Last Commit
5 days ago
Latest Version
18.0.0
Total Releases
57
Contributors
106
Open PRs
0
Archived
No
Python Versions
3.11
3.12
3.13
3.14
Wheels
cp310
cp311
cp312
cp313
cp314
cp38
cp39
pp38
pp39
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh