using FFmpeg for android without any C/C++ or make knowledge

Question

I would like to use FFmpeg library on my android app. I have no C/C++/Make knowledge and all the threads I've been reading about it talk about stuff I completely don't understand.

Is there any pre-compiled library which I can add to my project, then add a simple 'import' statement on my java class and then call it?

Thanks

Answer 1

Is there any particular reason why you need exactly FFmpeg? I guess it could be possible to get prebuilt binaries, but since it is a C library, you would also need a JNI wrapper code - I don't think anyone would generate that for the whole library since it's quite large, so even with a prebuilt library you still need to have some JNI knowledge to wire through the communication between Java and FFmpeg in C. Just for the purpose of demonstration - here is an example.

Apart from that if there is not a special reason to use FFmpeg, why can't you stick with MediaCodec that is a part of the Android API? It wraps the native StageFright library and could provide hardware support on devices where it is available, while FFmpeg would be a CPU only solution. Of course, if some unpopular codecs or muxers that are not available in MediaCodec are needed, then FFmpeg is the way.

Answer 2

You can use Xuggler for encoding and decoding audio and video. Their wesite says "Xuggler extensively uses FFmpeg to compress and uncompress media".

Answer 3

您可以使用JavaCPP Presets中的预编译库以及FFmpegFrameRecorder的FFmpegFrameRecorder来压缩图像和音频样本，例如，如RecordActivity样本所示。