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• C - FFmpeg streaming from a C program?

  16 August 2017, by golmschenk

  I’m looking to replicate an FFmpeg command-line command in my C code. Specifically I would like to be able to run:

  ffmpeg -re -i video.mp4 -f mpegts udp://localhost:7777

  One thing I’ve noticed when looking at people’s code who have used the libraries of FFmpeg in their own code is that they often have a few hundred lines of code for a single command similar to an FFmpeg command-line command. I’m guessing this is just because they are doing something very specific, because if I can run that short command on my command line and get what I want it should probably only take about ten lines of code to do the same thing in my C code. This should only take about that much work right? Why would it take much more?

  I’m having a bit of difficulty finding explanations on how to use the streaming capabilities of the FFmpeg libraries that aren’t overly complex because they’re for a very specific purpose. Can anyone explain how I might go about writing the code for the above command? Or at the very least point me to some documentation explaining how to write such a script/program? Thank you much!

  EDIT: I do hope to run this from an iPhone app eventually so I won’t just be able to straight up call FFmpeg from my program. I’ll need to use the libraries used by FFmpeg.

• How to open a HEIF (.heic) image?

  14 December 2022, by Jean-Milost Reymond

  For a c++ project, I need to open and show a HEIF (.heic) image. What I know (if I'm right) is that the HEIF images are based on the ffmpeg standard, and requires a H265 codec to be read.

  



  I found several open-source H265 codecs:

  



  

  • OpenHEVC (https://github.com/OpenHEVC/openHEVC)

  


  • x265 (https://bitbucket.org/multicoreware/x265/downloads/)

  


  • libde265 (https://github.com/strukturag/libde265)

  


  



  I can open and show H265 encoded video files with each of them, but I'm unable to simply open, show or convert a .heic image. All of them return an error, or just do nothing.

  



  To be honest I'm a little puzzled, because the HEIF standard seem to be a well kept secret. I'm unable to find a relevant info that could allow me to walk to a solution. Those I found are just tricks and workarounds, like e.g. forcing the device (I'm speaking here about the Apple iPhone using the new iOS11) to generate a jpg image instead of a heic, or using a third party application like dr.fone. Of course these solutions are irrelevant for me.

  



  So, somebody can tell me which codec I should use with a .heif image, and how I can use it to open it? Or are there open source libraries or examples that allow to manipulate this type of image file? Somebody can point me to the good direction?

  


• FFMPEG iOS 7 Library

  15 September 2017, by Destiny Dawn

  I’ve tried reading many tutorials.
  I’ve spent hours on google, and stackoverflow trying answer.
  So far I’ve read: Trying to compile the FFMPEG libraries for iPhoneOS platform with armv6 and arv7 architecture FFMPEG integration on iphone/ ipad project and https://github.com/lajos/iFrameExtractor few of the many.

  I’m trying to build this library for iOS 7/Xcode 5 compatibility but it’s not working.
  A common error I’d get is:

  Configured with: --prefix=/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/4.2.1
  
  yasm/nasm not found or too old. Use --disable-yasm for a crippled build.
  
  
  
  If you think configure made a mistake, make sure you are using the latest
  
  version from Git.  If the latest version fails, report the problem to the
  
  ffmpeg-user@ffmpeg.org mailing list or IRC #ffmpeg on irc.freenode.net.
  
  Include the log file "config.log" produced by configure as this will help
  
  solving the problem.

  I’d also get many more once that is finished. Such as:

  rm: illegal option -- .
  
  usage: rm [-f | -i] [-dPRrvW] file ...
  
         unlink file
  
  make: *** [clean] Error 64

  I’ve mostly tried using this command to start, but it always crashes on "make clean":

  ./configure \
  
  --cc=/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/Developer/usr/bin/gcc \
  
  --as='/usr/local/bin/gas-preprocessor.pl /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/Developer/usr/bin/gcc' \
  
  --sysroot=/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/Developer/SDKs/iPhoneOS7.0.sdk \
  
  --target-os=darwin \
  
  --arch=arm \
  
  --cpu=cortex-a8 \
  
  --extra-cflags='-arch armv7' \
  
  --extra-ldflags='-arch armv7 -isysroot /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/Developer/SDKs/iPhoneOS7.0.sdk' \
  
  --prefix=compiled/armv7 \
  
  --enable-cross-compile \
  
  --enable-nonfree \
  
  --enable-gpl \
  
  --disable-armv5te \
  
  --disable-swscale-alpha \
  
  --disable-doc \
  
  --disable-ffmpeg \
  
  --disable-ffplay \
  
  --disable-ffprobe \
  
  --disable-ffserver \
  
  --disable-asm \
  
  --disable-debug