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• Transcoding videos with LibAvFormat for playback on iOS devices

  18 mai 2016, par user361526

  I’m trying to transcode a video on my iOS app using FFMpeg/LibAv.
  What I’m trying to accomplish is to transcode a video in order to resize each frame and possibly lower the bitrate in order to save valuable MB in the device.

  The resulting video must be playable on all iPhone5+ devices.

  After reading the documentation I found out that :

  • I do not need to encode/decode the audio stream -> I’ll copy as-is to the output file
  • I need to encode the video using the h264 codec (LibX264) with a profile supported by iOS (baseline profile with level 3.0 - https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Encode/H.264#Compatibility)
  • I’m also setting the picture format to YUV planar since it’s the only one supported by iOS
  • For the sake of testing I’m not using any filter (I’m using a dummy/passthrough) at all or even trying to lower the bitrate, I’m just trying to decode the video stream and encode it again
  • Most of the code is based on the transcoding.c and filtering.c available on the FFMpeg examples directory

  FFMpeg-wise what I’m trying to achieve with LibAv is :

  ffmpeg -i INPUT.MOV -c:v libx264 -preset ultrafast -profile:v baseline -level 3.0  -c:a copy output.MOV

  (the resulting file - which can be found below - is playable on QuickTime if it’s generated by FFMpeg through the command line)

  The original video was generated with a regular iPhone using iOS 8.2 but the problem is not device specific or iOS specific, it occurs on all videos generated with LibAv.

  Although both resulting files are playable by VideoLan (VLC) the one I generated through LibAv is not playable by QuickTime even though I can’t find anything wrong with it.

  As you can see below, I create the video stream with the proper video codec on the call to avformat_new_stream :

  AVStream *out_stream; // output stream
  
  AVStream *in_stream; // input stream
  
  AVCodecContext *dec_ctx, *enc_ctx; // codec context for the stream
  
  AVCodec *encoder; // codec used
  
  int ret;
  
  unsigned int i;
  
  
  
  ofmt_ctx = NULL;
  
  // Allocate an AVFormatContext for an output format. This will be the file header (similar to avformat_open_input but with an zero'ed memory)
  
  avformat_alloc_output_context2(&ofmt_ctx, NULL, NULL, filename);
  
  if (!ofmt_ctx) {
  
      av_log(NULL, AV_LOG_ERROR, "Could not create output context\n");
  
      [self errorWith:kErrorCreatingOutputContext and:@"Could not create output context"];
  
      return AVERROR_UNKNOWN;
  
  }
  
  // we must not use the AVCodecContext from the video stream directly! So we have to use avcodec_copy_context() to copy the context to a new location (after allocating memory for it, of course).
  
  // iterate over all input streams
  
  for (i = 0; i < ifmt_ctx->nb_streams; i++) {
  
      in_stream = ifmt_ctx->streams[i]; // input stream
  
      dec_ctx = in_stream->codec; // get the codec context for the decoder
  
  
  
      if (dec_ctx->codec_type == AVMEDIA_TYPE_VIDEO) {
  
          // lets use h264
  
          encoder = avcodec_find_encoder(AV_CODEC_ID_H264);
  
          if (!encoder) {
  
              [self errorWith:kErrorCodecNotFound and:@"H264 Codec Not Found"];
  
              return AVERROR_UNKNOWN;
  
          }
  
          out_stream = avformat_new_stream(ofmt_ctx, encoder); // create a new stream with h264 codec
  
          if (!out_stream) {
  
              av_log(NULL, AV_LOG_ERROR, "Failed allocating output stream\n");
  
              [self errorWith:kErrorAllocateOutputStream and:@"Failed allocating output stream"];
  
              return AVERROR_UNKNOWN;
  
          }
  
          enc_ctx = out_stream->codec; // pointer to the stream codec context
  
          /* we transcode to same properties (picture size,
  
           * sample rate etc.). These properties can be changed for output
  
           * streams easily using filters */
  
          if (dec_ctx->codec_type == AVMEDIA_TYPE_VIDEO) {
  
              enc_ctx->width = dec_ctx->width;
  
              enc_ctx->height = dec_ctx->height;
  
              enc_ctx->sample_aspect_ratio = dec_ctx->sample_aspect_ratio;
  
              enc_ctx->pix_fmt = AV_PIX_FMT_YUV420P;
  
              enc_ctx->time_base = dec_ctx->time_base;
  
              av_opt_set(enc_ctx->priv_data, "preset", "ultrafast", 0);
  
              av_opt_set(enc_ctx->priv_data, "profile", "baseline", 0);
  
              av_opt_set(enc_ctx->priv_data, "level", "3.0", 0);
  
          }
  
  
  
          out_stream->time_base = in_stream->time_base;
  
  
  
          AVDictionaryEntry *tag = NULL;
  
          while ((tag = av_dict_get(in_stream->metadata, "", tag, AV_DICT_IGNORE_SUFFIX))) {
  
              printf("%s=%s\n", tag->key, tag->value);
  
              char *k = av_strdup(tag->key);       // if your strings are already allocated,
  
              char *v = av_strdup(tag->value);     // you can avoid copying them like this
  
              av_dict_set(&out_stream->metadata, k, v, 0);
  
          }
  
  
  
          ret = avcodec_open2(enc_ctx, encoder, NULL);
  
          if (ret < 0) {
  
              av_log(NULL, AV_LOG_ERROR, "Cannot open video encoder for stream #%u\n", i);
  
              [self errorWith:kErrorCantOpenOutputFile and:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"Cannot open video encoder for stream #%u",i]];
  
              return ret;
  
          }
  
  
  
      }
  
      else if(dec_ctx->codec_type == AVMEDIA_TYPE_UNKNOWN) {
  
          // if we cant figure out the stream type, fail
  
          av_log(NULL, AV_LOG_FATAL, "Elementary stream #%d is of unknown type, cannot proceed\n", i);
  
          [self errorWith:kErrorUnknownStream and:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"Elementary stream #%d is of unknown type, cannot proceed",i]];
  
          return AVERROR_INVALIDDATA;
  
      }
  
      else {
  
          out_stream = avformat_new_stream(ofmt_ctx, NULL);
  
          if (!out_stream) {
  
              av_log(NULL, AV_LOG_ERROR, "Failed allocating output stream\n");
  
              [self errorWith:kErrorAllocateOutputStream and:@"Failed allocating output stream"];
  
              return AVERROR_UNKNOWN;
  
          }
  
          enc_ctx = out_stream->codec;
  
          /* this stream must be remuxed */
  
          // copies ifmt_ctx->streams[i]->codec into ofmt_ctx->streams[i]->codec - Copy the settings of the source AVCodecContext into the destination AVCodecContext.
  
          ret = avcodec_copy_context(ofmt_ctx->streams[i]->codec,
  
                                     ifmt_ctx->streams[i]->codec);
  
          if (ret < 0) {
  
              av_log(NULL, AV_LOG_ERROR, "Copying stream context failed\n");
  
              [self errorWith:kErrorCopyStreamFailed and:@"Copying stream context failed"];
  
              return ret;
  
          }
  
  
  
      }
  
      // dunno what this is for
  
      if (ofmt_ctx->oformat->flags & AVFMT_GLOBALHEADER)
  
          enc_ctx->flags |= AV_CODEC_FLAG_GLOBAL_HEADER;
  
  
  
  }
  
  if (!(ofmt_ctx->oformat->flags & AVFMT_NOFILE)) {
  
      // Create and initialize a AVIOContext for accessing the
  
      // resource indicated by url.
  
      ret = avio_open(&ofmt_ctx->pb, filename, AVIO_FLAG_WRITE);
  
      if (ret < 0) {
  
          av_log(NULL, AV_LOG_ERROR, "Could not open output file '%s'", filename);
  
          [self errorWith:kErrorCantOpenOutputFile and:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"Could not open output file '%s'", filename]];
  
          return ret;
  
      }
  
  }
  
  
  
  /* init muxer, write output file header */
  
  // Allocate the stream private data and write the stream header to an output media file.
  
  ret = avformat_write_header(ofmt_ctx, NULL);
  
  if (ret < 0) {
  
      av_log(NULL, AV_LOG_ERROR, "Error occurred when opening output file\n");
  
      [self errorWith:kErrorOutFileCantWriteHeader and:@"Error occurred when opening output file"];
  
      return ret;
  
  }
  
  return 0;

  You can find the files here :

  1. Original final : https://www.dropbox.com/s/2jjs1uy2pu2veyy/IMG_5705.MOV?dl=0
  2. File generated with FFMpeg - https://www.dropbox.com/s/9hfmq3fcifgpfqc/local-ffmpeg.MOV?dl=0
  3. File generated by code - https://www.dropbox.com/s/rttvny39rj7ejpf/generated-by-Ze.MOV?dl=0

  Thank you so much,
  Ze

• How do I use -analyzeduration from ffmpeg with FFmpegDecoder.framework from mooncatventures ?

  29 décembre 2013, par user3143010

  I have been playing with the RtspPlay1 from mooncatventures to try and stream a live stream from an ffmpeg streaming source with as little delay as possible. The problem is even when I modify the code to indicate the -analyzedelay 0 flags in RtspPlay1 it does not seem to do anything. I came to this conclusion because the delay is the same on my computer without the -analyzeduration 0 flag as the iOS device. Any thoughts would be helpful.

  Here is the command I am trying to emulate on the iPhone :
  ffplay rtp :///224.1.1.1:11326 -analyzeduration 0

  Here is the modified code I tried with RtspPlay1 :

  forward_argc=1;
  
  
  
  forward_argv[1] = "-analyzeduration";
  
  forward_argv[2] = "0";
  
  //forward_argv[3] = "30";
  
  //forward_argv[4] = "-fast";
  
  //forward_argv[5] = "-sync";
  
  //forward_argv[6] = "video";
  
  //forward_argv[7] = "-drp";
  
  //forward_argv[8] = "-skipidct";
  
  //forward_argv[9] = "10";
  
  //forward_argv[10] = "-skiploop";
  
  //forward_argv[11] = "50";
  
  //forward_argv[12] = "-threads";
  
  //forward_argv[13] = "5";
  
  //argv[14] = "-an";
  
  forward_argv[3] = cString;
  
  
  
  NSLog(@"glflag %@\n ",[parms objectForKey:@"glflag"] );
  
  if ([parms objectForKey:@"glflag"]!=@"1") {
  
     forward_argv[4]="0";
  
  }else {
  
  forward_argv[4]="1";
  
  }
  
  
  
  
  
  forward_argc += 4;

• Mobile Analytics SDK : beta release of Piwik iOS SDK

  30 octobre 2013, par Piwik team

  Mattias Levin, a Mobile developer enthusiast from Sweden, has released the first public beta version of the official Piwik SDK for iOS !

  If you are building apps for iOS or OSX, you will be able to track your App usage with Piwik. Learn more in this blog post.

  Apps & Mobile apps Analytics

  Using Piwik to track your app usage would give interesting statistics usage such as :

  • number of active users (per day, week, month, …) of my mobile or desktop app,
  • how long users spend in the app,
  • track which icons, buttons are clicked (or any other custom event),
  • record device info, operating system,
  • reports on any Custom Variables you that are relevant to your app (see examples below),
  • how often is the app opened ? When and how long is the app opened ?
  • number of new users, active users, total users,
  • record errors or exception thrown

  Piwik SDK for iOS
  

  The PiwikTracker is an Objective-C framework (for iOS and OSX) designed to send app usage data to a Piwik analytics server. It is realeased under MIT license. Piwik server is a downloadable, Free/Libre (GPLv3 licensed) real time analytics platform.

  Getting started

  1. Create a new website in the Piwik web interface called “My App”. Copy the Website ID and the token_auth.
  2. Download the PiwikTracker SDK.
  3. Add the PiwikTracker files to your project.
  4. Create and configure the PiwikTracker.
  5. Add code in your app to track screen views, events, exceptions, goals and more
  6. Let the dispatch timer dispatch pending events to the Piwik server, or dispatch events manually.

  For more info, check out the Readme.

  Requirements

  The latest PiwikTracker version uses ARC and support iOS6+ and OSX 10.7+.

  • iOS tracker depends on : Core Data, Core Location, Core Graphics, UIKit and AFNetworking.
  • OSX tracker depends on : Core Data, Core Graphics, Cocoa and AFNetworking.

  Demo project

  The workspace contains an iPhone demo app that uses and demonstrates the features available in the SDK.

  

  Feedback needed

  If you use the iOS SDK to track your app, we would like to hear your suggestions, bug reports or general feedback.

  We hope to work with you to improve the SDK and move it out of beta !

  Please report suggestions, bugs, feature requests in the Github Issues at Piwik iOS SDK.

  Happy App Analytics !