ffmpeg-libav-tutorial VS userland

The FFmpeg libraries are possibly the worst thing I have ever worked with in my life. I have never been more afraid to use a library than this one. This tutorial is very outdated, eg. `AVPicture`, which is used throughout, is completely deprecated and removed from the library, so you will simply encounter linker errors trying to follow this tutorial.

FFmpeg libraries randomly break themselves, so if you find an answer from a few years ago, chances are it's useless. Want to free an AVPacket? `av_free_packet` is deprecated,. You can use `av_packet_unref` (but there's _also_ a function named `av_packet_free` that doesn't do quite the same thing).

Most questions on Stack Overflow or related platforms have no replies, the library has literally zero documentation, it has very little error handling, which means if you're a bad C developer like me you are required to recompile FFmpeg with debugging information unstripped so you can trace segfaults in gdb.

https://github.com/leandromoreira/ffmpeg-libav-tutorial/ is a better and more up-to-date tutorial than this one.

I found this . I think you need an older version of ffmpeg to use the program, try to write it under the AUR to see if the mantainer is still active and knows the problem.

I think you're supposed to read the header files? I have no idea how people write ffmpeg stuff. The only good tutorial I've seen is: https://github.com/leandromoreira/ffmpeg-libav-tutorial

Much of it I learned from An ffmpeg and SDL Tutorial (outdated, but the core idea persists), and from ffmpeg-libav-tutorial.

https://github.com/leandromoreira/ffmpeg-libav-tutorial#learn-ffmpeg-libav-the-hard-way

If you are not familiar with libav, ffmpeg-libav-tutorial is a great introduction.

Try this tutorial: https://github.com/leandromoreira/ffmpeg-libav-tutorial

Btw, if you want to encode anything higher than 1080p60 using the Videocore VI, you'll need to use an external library like ffmpeg. There is a good tutorial for ffmpeg too - https://github.com/leandromoreira/ffmpeg-libav-tutorial . This should teach you how to encode the raw video stream you get from the camera into a codec of your choice.

I suggest you to make an issue report in the rpi userland github https://github.com/raspberrypi/userland - describe your issue (raspivid crashes every few hours) and go from there.

I'm referring to this longer term issue, where due to a hard to track down race condition 64 bit support of mmal, a key part of its hardware acceleration on arm64.

Next, I looked at the code for Raspicam group of tools. That's when other things in life distracted me :)