[ANN] New video provider for iOS / Android: ffpyplayer

[Mathieu Virbel]

Hi everyone,

TLDR: replace ffmpeg with ffpyplayer as a requirements for video support on Android and iOS.

Forget about your previous experience for Video on Android / iOS. The previous provider was made by myself during 2012, based on ffmpeg 1.2. It was largely buggy for some cases, and performance was not great.

This time is done. Our lovely core developer, matham, coded a new project named ffpyplayer (https://github.com/matham/ffpyplayer/), a cython implementation of a ffmpeg based player. And i just finished the Android recipes for it.

FFPyPlayer is now fully available on Android and iOS. Just add "ffpyplayer" as a recipe to compile, or in requirements for your buildozer. It will compile latest ffmpeg 2.7, and ffpyplayer.

Also, since Kivy 1.9, it can be used as a core provider. Ie, just add it, and you'll get video support.

A few notes: ffmpeg is compiled with a minimal set of options: H264 + AAC, and supports http transport. This reduce the ffmpeg core library to 2.04MB (VS 8.48MB with full options). See the end of the email for the exacts options compiled.

Enjoy!

Mathieu & Matham

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FFmpeg compilations options:

install prefix            build/ffmpeg/armeabi-v7a

source path               .

C compiler                arm-linux-androideabi-gcc

C library                 bionic

host C compiler           gcc

host C library            glibc

ARCH                      arm (armv7-a)

big-endian                no

runtime cpu detection     yes

ARMv5TE enabled           yes

ARMv6 enabled             yes

ARMv6T2 enabled           yes

VFP enabled               yes

NEON enabled              yes

THUMB enabled             no

debug symbols             yes

strip symbols             yes

optimize for size         yes

optimizations             yes

static                    no

shared                    yes

postprocessing support    yes

new filter support        yes

network support           yes

threading support         pthreads

safe bitstream reader     yes

SDL support               no

opencl enabled            no

texi2html enabled         no

perl enabled              yes

pod2man enabled           yes

makeinfo enabled          no

makeinfo supports HTML    no

External libraries:

zlib

Enabled decoders:

aac h263 h264

Enabled encoders:

Enabled hwaccels:

Enabled parsers:

aac h263 h264

Enabled demuxers:

asf mpegts sdp

mov rm

Enabled muxers:

Enabled protocols:

file rtp udp

http tcp

Enabled filters:

aresample crop

Enabled bsfs:

Enabled indevs:

Enabled outdevs:

[Mathieu Virbel]

I made another changes on android, if you compile openssl as well (add openssl as a requirements), then you'll get https / tls_openssl support.

(Vimeo http redirect to https url.). Now i can safely confirm that this player also read perfectly h264/aac video from the internet ^^

[Carsten Thielepape]

Hello,

 

great job, thx.

Are they any instructions how get support for more codecs into the build?  

[Mathieu Virbel]

Not really, i honestly don't know how to expose them. Best is to change the recipe to your needs :/

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[Carsten Thielepape]

Hi Mathieu,

took a while to find some time to play around with this. So I added 

requirements = ffpyplayer,openssl, ......

to my buildozer spec file, but buildozer comes with the error

Available modules: android apsw audiostream c_igraph cprotobuf cymunk django docutils ffmpeg gevent greenlet hostpython igraph jpeg kivent kivy libevent libpq libswift libxml2 libxslt libyaml lxml m2crypto msgpack mysql_connector netifaces numpy opencv openssl paramiko pil plyer png polygon protobuf psutil psycopg2 pyasn1 pycrypto pygame pyjnius pylibpd pyopenssl pyparsing pyqrcode python pyyaml sdl setuptools sqlalchemy sqlite3 storm swift twisted txws wokkel zope

So it seems, that the receipe is missing. I allready tried to update buildozer (sudo pip install --upgrade buildozer), but error remains. Any advice what to build with buildozer (Android) and ffpyplayer woud be great.

Thanks!

[Carsten Thielepape]

Hello,

fixed it meanwhile: I copied the receipes from the python-for-android branch manual to the local folders.

Still haven't found any internet stream to show a picture. Maybe you have one example where you tested it?

[刘斌]

hi, i got following error message on my android phone:
I/python  ( 5102): [ERROR             ] [ffpyplayer  ] http://10.10.0.1:8080/stream/video.h264: Invalid data found when processing input
is there any way to handle this?
i use a raspberry pi as a http h264 video server follow the guide at:
http://www.linux-projects.org/modules/sections/index.php?op=viewarticle&artid=16#example11
looking forward your reply,thank you.

在 2015年6月28日星期日 UTC+8下午11:39:26，Mathieu Virbel写道：

[刘斌]

i think you can try to update your kivy.

在 2015年9月7日星期一 UTC+8下午9:13:36，Carsten Thielepape写道：

[刘斌]

hi, Is the ffpyplayer support the HTTP/raw H264 stream playback?
what should i do if i want to play the HTTP/raw H264 stream on my android phone use kivy.

在 2015年6月28日星期日 UTC+8下午11:39:26，Mathieu Virbel写道：

Hi everyone,

[sagi...@gmail.com]

Hi Sir,

 Can you share your code sir? How did you fixed this error?