ffmpeg, yes the iphone can play avi's, mpegs and stream rtsp

[michelle]

With help from a lot of sources I have this working and in keeping with the lgpl license in the next few weeks will post some sample code.

Building ffplay from the ffmpeg4iphone site will not produce good video, I have updated my bug report there. The assumption was sdl was the problem, but if you recompile using the gas-processor scipts the issue goes away.

Also

The demo player on this site is a good start for beginners, unfortunately it uses there own openframeworks framework, there are projects in the appstore that use this but there is an additional learning curve.


openframeworks.cc • View topic - ofVideoPlayer on iphone??

Works with very little changes.

Download the 006 openframework for the iphone

download the videoplayer sample and put that in the apps/examples folder (that will insue search headers are correct)
build the xcode project.

On the simulator avi, mpg and mp4 look really good. No sound in this demo

On the device the video looks a bit washed out and breaks up occassionally, otherwise is quite clear. I didn't play with this long I suspect tweaking the synch coding and adding some arm optimizations will probably correct this issue.

Looking back, If I knew what I do now. This would of been an easier task.

Under the terms of the lgpl I will have to publish these ffmpeg mods anyway, also you need to be aware of any additional license issues with certain codecs.

[ecaste]

Dear Michelle,
I'm very interesting into getting a running XCode project. I'm quite experienced now around the IPhone SDK, but very inexperienced around all FFMPEG and compilation stuff...

Is there any change to get from you a sample XCode project that uses FFMPEG for live streams (RTSP)...Or at least some helps

Thanks in advance,
ecaste

[yusufcandan]

Hi Michelle,
I am very excited about your project since I have been working on it for a while but still I cant get any working code especially for rtsp stream.

Good for you!

[michelle]

Originally Posted by yusufcandan

Hi Michelle,
I am very excited about your project since I have been working on it for a while but still I cant get any working code especially for rtsp stream.

Good for you!

I'm curious why so much interest in this effort I put together more than a year ago. In the last couple months i've helped at least 4 other developers with this very subject. The webstreamx app I contributed to the ffmpeg4iphone project handles mpeg quite well, we also have had some success with rtsp which required some mods to libavcodec to make it work.

[elhanche]

does anyone can give us a code xcode to play video in rtsp or asx.

[michelle]

Originally Posted by elhanche

does anyone can give us a code xcode to play video in rtsp or asx.

The short answer is:

Everything you need is on the previously mentioned ffmpeg4iphone gouge code site, I committed it to trunk/universal.zip

The long answer:
Any code we have is proprietary and I am not prepared to share it at this time, however we are more than happy to help anyone having a problem with a specific area of implementation or advice on design.

(update)

Everything related to this project has been opened sourced and moved to github under
mooncatventures-group.