FFmpeg VS OpenH264

There are a couple of solutions I can think of; - a solution from someone like Telestream - working out if it’s possible to do what you want with something free like FFMPEG

MLT version 7.1.0 FFmpeg libraries

FFmpeg's source code is maintained using a version control system called git. The git master builds are built from the master branch of the repository, which is where all development occurs whereas the release builds are built from the latest release branch. These are essentially a snapshot of the master branch at a given point of time. They are updated with bug and security fixes for a while but no new features. It is highly recommended to choose a git master build; unlike many software, releases are primarily made for the convenience of OS distributors and package managers and don't signify greater stability or maturity.

You should ask if you have to create your own compression or if you can use something like FFmpeg or HandBrake. In the later case you can create C bindings or wrapper for these command line programs, and just pick a codec for each media type but be careful because some of them is protected by patents and depending in how you use them the company might have to pay for them.

The program requires that you have downloaded a version of ffmpeg and have updated your PATH variable so its command can be executed from the command line.

A copy of FFmpeg - download it here.

ffmpeg is a toolkit for developers to work with audio and video files - which includes conversion between formats. It's used most commonly in a terminal, so below is a utility function to add to your index.js file. It allows us to fire off terminal commands directly from our Node.js application:

FFmpeg is a terminal-based toolkit for developers to work with audio and video files, which can include some quite complex manipulation. We'll be using exec to run it.

However, there's a catch: most of the time, the highest quality video doesn't have audio. That's just how YouTube seems to work, with the audio and video separate. So in order to download the highest quality video (with audio), they'll have to be downloaded separately. In many cases, you'd want to combine the two into one file so you have the highest quality video and audio. ffmpeg is one way to do that. But in my case, I can simply play both the audio and video at the same time and it will work!

I'm looking for a way to use another library to support MP4 video playback. I see that the openh264 library could technically work, since it implements full H264 decoding and encoding, but building and installing it does nothing.

The code source is available at https://github.com/cisco/openh264 under a BSD license. The binary is released under this agreement from Cisco: https://www.openh264.org/BINARY_LICENSE.txt

- This is interesting. Do you know which of the WebRTC clients struggle with high profile? I am genuinely interested and want to try out a library that is baseline only. All hw devices support high profile these days, so if the browser is plugged into the hardware, that should not be an issue. The last modern software decoding library that was previously limited to baseline was openh264 (which is/was often used by WebRTC), but that was fixed in openh264 v 2.0.0 in May 2019. If you are the author, would you be kind enough to share an example of a baseline-only client?