I am writing a client-server application which does real time video transmission from an android based phone to a server. The captured video from the phone camera is encoded using the android provided h264 encoder and transmitted via UDP socket. The frames are not RTP encapsulated. I need it to reduce the overhead and hence the delay. On the receiver, I need to decode the incoming encoded frame. The data being sent on the UDP socket not only contains the encoded frame but some other information related to the frame as a part of its header. Each frame is encoded as an nal unit.
I am able to retrieve the frames from the received packet as a byte array. I can save this byte array as raw h264 file and playback using vlc and everything works fine. However, I need to do some processing on this frame and hence need to use it with opencv. Can anyone help me with decoding a raw h264 byte array in opencv? Can ffmpeg be used for this?
