how to use HW accelerated video codec on android

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11321825/how-to-use-hardware-accelerated-video-decoding-on-android



 
 

Use ffmpeg libstagefright (overview
 of libstagefright) or use libstagefright in the OS directly, likehere.

Use OpenMax on specific hardware platform. like here
 about samsung device and here
 about Qualcomm Snapdragon series

Some people mentioned PVplayer,



for method 1.


Since stagefright is not exposed to NDK, so you will have to do extra work.

There are two ways:

(1) build your project using android full source tree. This way takes a few days to setup, once ready, it's very easy, and you can take full advantage of stagefright.

(2) you can just copy include file to your project, it's inside this folder:

android-4.0.4_r1.1/frameworks/base/include/media/stagefright

then you will have export the library function by dynamically loading libstagefright.so, and you can link with your jni project.

To encode/decode using statgefright, it's very straightforward, a few hundred of lines can will do.

I used stagefright to capture screenshots to create a video, which will be available in our Android VNC server, to be released soon.

the following is a snippet, I think it's better than using ffmpeg to encode a movie. You can add audio source as well.
sp<MetaData> enc_meta = new MetaData;
// enc_meta->setCString(kKeyMIMEType, MEDIA_MIMETYPE_VIDEO_H263);
// enc_meta->setCString(kKeyMIMEType, MEDIA_MIMETYPE_VIDEO_MPEG4);
enc_meta->setCString(kKeyMIMEType, MEDIA_MIMETYPE_VIDEO_AVC);
enc_meta->setInt32(kKeyWidth, width);
enc_meta->setInt32(kKeyHeight, height);
enc_meta->setInt32(kKeySampleRate, kFramerate);
enc_meta->setInt32(kKeyBitRate, kVideoBitRate);
enc_meta->setInt32(kKeyStride, width);
enc_meta->setInt32(kKeySliceHeight, height);
enc_meta->setInt32(kKeyIFramesInterval, kIFramesIntervalSec);
enc_meta->setInt32(kKeyColorFormat, colorFormat);

sp<MediaSource> encoder =
    OMXCodec::Create(
            client.interface(), enc_meta, true, image_source);

sp<MPEG4Writer> writer = new MPEG4Writer("/sdcard/screenshot.mp4");
writer->addSource(encoder);

// you can add an audio source here if you want to encode audio as well
// 
//sp<MediaSource> audioEncoder =
//    OMXCodec::Create(client.interface(), encMetaAudio, true, audioSource);
//writer->addSource(audioEncoder);

writer->setMaxFileDuration(kDurationUs);
CHECK_EQ(OK, writer->start());
while (!writer->reachedEOS()) {
    fprintf(stderr, ".");
    usleep(100000);
}
err = writer->stop();