As of the time of this writing, no one has yet put together a gradle build package for ffmpeg on android. It took me a good amount of effort to get ffmpeg working over jni for android. I have found several posts on this theme but non of these seems to work. Creating a hardware decoder integrating ffmpeg with.
In my case i just added ffmpegandroidmaker as a git submodule to the root of the android project. Thats why its good idea to create building script like this. How to build ffmpeg for android this forum thread describes how to strip. Here will show you how to build ffmpeg from the latest git repository with the latest android ndk version, step by. Building ffmpeg for android neon, armv7, vfp and armv6, used in vplayer for android yixiaffmpeg android. After many unsuccessful attempts and after digging deep into internet, finally i. How to build ffmpeg with android ndk cedric fung vecio. This is a thing of ffmpegandroidmaker and not the ffmpegs. This page contains a list of resources which describe the necessary steps required for compiling ffmpeg from scratch or with the help of build scripts andor package managers. While it is technically possible to build ffmpeg on windows i highly recommend you to use linux or osx as the host system. Building ffmpeg for android, since i will skip some basic stuff that already was described here. The following tutorial shows how to build ffmpeg for android in windows.
Then the clean build is made and the library is installed in the. Use binaries available at github jcentercocoapods or build your own version with external libraries you need. When building for android you need provide additional settings for configure script. How to build ffmpeg with androidndkr10d in windows. This project is a continued fork of ffmpeg android java by writingminds. As far as i know it is impossible to build this library on windows. This repository contains scripts to build ffmpeg for android with rtmp and openssl support. Another library, prepared by me, that you might find useful. And i found that almost all information on building ffmpeg project for android is outdated. Configure and build ffmpeg library with android ndk. As a personal knowledge point, i have arranged the following records. If there is no existing library configuration for a selected product, the library will be configured on the fly, during building process, with parameters. What does exist is full of outdated links or buildscripts that do not work. For example, you can write your decoder, audio output for particular platform.
Some components in qtav are designed to be extensible. Preamble this article is the continuation of my article about building ffmpeg for android. After shared libraries are compiled we need to tell android build system to package them with the app. Most other posts on the web seemed to be out dated on this matter. In this article, i will concentrate on the specifics of building ffmpeg with clang. Ffmpeg is a popular cross platform open source multimedia framework used in open source media applications such as handbrake. Execute ffmpeg commands with ease in your android project. Later it will be appended to extraldflags argument. All builds require at least windows 7 or mac os x 10. Ffmpeg android ffmpeg for android compiled with x264, libass, fontconfig, freetype and fribidi supports android l download this project as a. I have written one article on compiling ffmpeg for android with ndk, and got thousands of visits everyday, though its in chinese and too many problems to use. I dedicate this story to all manhours spent by all people trying to accomplish the same goal. I have just contacted ffmpeg, and i have searched and sorted out some specific methods of using ffmpeg on android mobile phones for this purpose.
Build ffmpeg for all android architecture correctly. This article is the continuation of my article about building ffmpeg for android. Thanks to android ndk we can use jni to invoke native code from javakotlin and vice versa. Last modified 5 years ago last modified on jun 7, 2015, 1. How to build ffmpeg and use it in android applications.
I skipped this step, because those arguments in ffmpegandroidmaker were changing with time. In the next sections, i will try to stepbystep explain how to build ffmpeg for android, but, first of all, i. Ffmpeg for android compiled with x264, libass, fontconfig, freetype, fribidi and lame supports android 4. Contribute to faithfractureandroidffmpegbuildscript development by creating an account on github. Struggling to put together a working and generally best practice build of current ffmpeg. I decided to use the capabilities of ffmpeg in my android application. The default builds for ffmpeg are linux, windows, and osx. Ffmpeg is the leading multimedia framework to decode, encode, transcode, mux, demux, stream, filter and play. There are prepackaged sources for ffmpeg including building instructions for android. The setup used for this build was a virtualbox virtual machine running ubuntu linux 12. Full and lite lite is a version that optimized binrary size, so it only includes small set features to work with most commom formats and codecs abi and android version supported. As far as i can tell, gradle doesnt yet support autoconf, which makes it pretty difficult to do so. Ffmpeg for android is a set of android makefiles which enable configuration and building ffmpeg library under android source code tree with android ndk.
Compilation, android ndk and os restrictions are a mad brew and i want to tell you a story of cooking ffmpeg for android today. Ive been working on this too, and i think ive figured it out thanks to this. Some time ago, i got task on my work which required processing of video on android. There seems to be no uptodate documents or tutorials. What are the steps for integrating ffmpeg on android.