In my app I'm trying to upload some videos that the user picked from gallery. The problem is that usually the android video files are too big to upload and so- we want to compress them first by lower bitrate/ resolution.
I've just heard about the new MediaCodec api that introduce with API 16 (I perviously tried to do so with ffmpeg).
What I'm doing right now is the following: First decode the input video using a video decoder, and configure it with the format that was read from the input file. Next, I create a standard video encoder with some predefined parameters, and use it for encoding the decoder output buffer. Then I save the encoder output buffer to a file.
Everything looks good - the same number of packets are written and read from each input and output buffer, but the final file doesn't look like a video file and can't be opened by any video player.
Looks like the decoding is ok, because I test it by displaying it on Surface. I first configure the decoder to work with a Surface, and when we call releaseOutputBuffer we use the render flag, and we're able to see the video on the screen.
Here is the code I'm using:
//init decoder
MediaCodec decoder = MediaCodec.createDecoderByType(mime);
decoder.configure(format, null , null , 0);
decoder.start();
ByteBuffer[] codecInputBuffers = decoder.getInputBuffers();
ByteBuffer[] codecOutputBuffers = decoder.getOutputBuffers();
//init encoder
MediaCodec encoder = MediaCodec.createEncoderByType(mime);
int width = format.getInteger(MediaFormat.KEY_WIDTH);
int height = format.getInteger(MediaFormat.KEY_HEIGHT);
MediaFormat mediaFormat = MediaFormat.createVideoFormat(mime, width, height);
mediaFormat.setInteger(MediaFormat.KEY_BIT_RATE, 400000);
mediaFormat.setInteger(MediaFormat.KEY_FRAME_RATE, 25);
mediaFormat.setInteger(MediaFormat.KEY_COLOR_FORMAT, MediaCodecInfo.CodecCapabilities.COLOR_FormatYUV420SemiPlanar);
mediaFormat.setInteger(MediaFormat.KEY_I_FRAME_INTERVAL, 5);
encoder.configure(mediaFormat, null , null , MediaCodec.CONFIGURE_FLAG_ENCODE);
encoder.start();
ByteBuffer[] encoderInputBuffers = encoder.getInputBuffers();
ByteBuffer[] encoderOutputBuffers = encoder.getOutputBuffers();
extractor.selectTrack(0);
boolean sawInputEOS = false;
boolean sawOutputEOS = false;
boolean sawOutputEOS2 = false;
MediaCodec.BufferInfo info = new MediaCodec.BufferInfo();
BufferInfo encoderInfo = new MediaCodec.BufferInfo();
while (!sawInputEOS || !sawOutputEOS || !sawOutputEOS2) {
if (!sawInputEOS) {
sawInputEOS = decodeInput(extractor, decoder, codecInputBuffers);
}
if (!sawOutputEOS) {
int outputBufIndex = decoder.dequeueOutputBuffer(info, 0);
if (outputBufIndex >= 0) {
sawOutputEOS = decodeEncode(extractor, decoder, encoder, codecOutputBuffers, encoderInputBuffers, info, outputBufIndex);
} else if (outputBufIndex == MediaCodec.INFO_OUTPUT_BUFFERS_CHANGED) {
Log.d(LOG_TAG, "decoding INFO_OUTPUT_BUFFERS_CHANGED");
codecOutputBuffers = decoder.getOutputBuffers();
} else if (outputBufIndex == MediaCodec.INFO_OUTPUT_FORMAT_CHANGED) {
final MediaFormat oformat = decoder.getOutputFormat();
Log.d(LOG_TAG, "decoding Output format has changed to " + oformat);
} else if (outputBufIndex == MediaCodec.INFO_TRY_AGAIN_LATER) {
Log.d(LOG_TAG, "decoding dequeueOutputBuffer timed out!");
}
}
if (!sawOutputEOS2) {
int encodingOutputBufferIndex = encoder.dequeueOutputBuffer(encoderInfo, 0);
if (encodingOutputBufferIndex >= 0) {
sawOutputEOS2 = encodeOuput(outputStream, encoder, encoderOutputBuffers, encoderInfo, encodingOutputBufferIndex);
} else if (encodingOutputBufferIndex == MediaCodec.INFO_OUTPUT_BUFFERS_CHANGED) {
Log.d(LOG_TAG, "encoding INFO_OUTPUT_BUFFERS_CHANGED");
encoderOutputBuffers = encoder.getOutputBuffers();
} else if (encodingOutputBufferIndex == MediaCodec.INFO_OUTPUT_FORMAT_CHANGED) {
final MediaFormat oformat = encoder.getOutputFormat();
Log.d(LOG_TAG, "encoding Output format has changed to " + oformat);
} else if (encodingOutputBufferIndex == MediaCodec.INFO_TRY_AGAIN_LATER) {
Log.d(LOG_TAG, "encoding dequeueOutputBuffer timed out!");
}
}
}
//clear some stuff here...
and those are the method I use for decode/ encode:
private boolean decodeInput(MediaExtractor extractor, MediaCodec decoder, ByteBuffer[] codecInputBuffers) {
boolean sawInputEOS = false;
int inputBufIndex = decoder.dequeueInputBuffer(0);
if (inputBufIndex >= 0) {
ByteBuffer dstBuf = codecInputBuffers[inputBufIndex];
input1count++;
int sampleSize = extractor.readSampleData(dstBuf, 0);
long presentationTimeUs = 0;
if (sampleSize < 0) {
sawInputEOS = true;
sampleSize = 0;
Log.d(LOG_TAG, "done decoding input: #" + input1count);
} else {
presentationTimeUs = extractor.getSampleTime();
}
decoder.queueInputBuffer(inputBufIndex, 0, sampleSize, presentationTimeUs, sawInputEOS ? MediaCodec.BUFFER_FLAG_END_OF_STREAM : 0);
if (!sawInputEOS) {
extractor.advance();
}
}
return sawInputEOS;
}
private boolean decodeOutputToFile(MediaExtractor extractor, MediaCodec decoder, ByteBuffer[] codecOutputBuffers,
MediaCodec.BufferInfo info, int outputBufIndex, OutputStream output) throws IOException {
boolean sawOutputEOS = false;
ByteBuffer buf = codecOutputBuffers[outputBufIndex];
if ((info.flags & MediaCodec.BUFFER_FLAG_END_OF_STREAM) != 0) {
sawOutputEOS = true;
Log.d(LOG_TAG, "done decoding output: #" + output1count);
}
if (info.size > 0) {
output1count++;
byte[] outData = new byte[info.size];
buf.get(outData);
output.write(outData, 0, outData.length);
} else {
Log.d(LOG_TAG, "no data available " + info.size);
}
buf.clear();
decoder.releaseOutputBuffer(outputBufIndex, false);
return sawOutputEOS;
}
private boolean encodeInputFromFile(MediaCodec encoder, ByteBuffer[] encoderInputBuffers, MediaCodec.BufferInfo info, FileChannel channel) throws IOException {
boolean sawInputEOS = false;
int inputBufIndex = encoder.dequeueInputBuffer(0);
if (inputBufIndex >= 0) {
ByteBuffer dstBuf = encoderInputBuffers[inputBufIndex];
input1count++;
int sampleSize = channel.read(dstBuf);
if (sampleSize < 0) {
sawInputEOS = true;
sampleSize = 0;
Log.d(LOG_TAG, "done encoding input: #" + input1count);
}
encoder.queueInputBuffer(inputBufIndex, 0, sampleSize, channel.position(), sawInputEOS ? MediaCodec.BUFFER_FLAG_END_OF_STREAM : 0);
}
return sawInputEOS;
}
Any suggestion on what I'm doing wrong?
I didn't find too much examples for encoding with MediaCodec just a few samples code for decoding... Thanks a lot for the help
MediaMuxer. Please point me to an example that reads a file (MediaExtractor) and writes an encoded video of a different size (I am using API level 22, so an asynchronous example would be even better!) – David Manpearl