goav vs go-mp4

goav

Golang bindings for FFmpeg (This repository is no longer maintained) (by giorgisio)

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go-mp4

Go library for reading and writing MP4 file (by abema)

Mp4 Go Golang fmp4 mp4box

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goav		go-mp4
	Project
2	Mentions	2
2,057	Stars	430
-	Growth	5.1%
0.0	Activity	7.8
almost 2 years ago	Latest Commit	23 days ago
Go	Language	Go
MIT License	License	MIT License

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goav

Posts with mentions or reviews of goav. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-22.

How to add RTP timestamp to MP4 container for self-made RTSP client in Go?
3 projects | /r/golang | 22 Aug 2022

For the MP4 container, I used to work with https://github.com/giorgisio/goav, but I visited now and saw that it had a deprecation notice, but should still work I guess.
Playing video in a Golang game
4 projects | dev.to | 3 Jan 2021

Now we need to obtain frames from the video stream of the file. goav provides an example code on how to do that. To make it work with Pixel game library, we need to set the frame decoding format to avcodec.AV_PIX_FMT_RGBA which is used by Pixel.

go-mp4

Posts with mentions or reviews of go-mp4. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-28.

Go library to validate MPEG-4 file?
3 projects | /r/golang | 28 Oct 2022

You could use go-mp4 to just validate the mp4 structure.
How to add RTP timestamp to MP4 container for self-made RTSP client in Go?
3 projects | /r/golang | 22 Aug 2022

I have looked at libraries such as go-mp4 (https://github.com/abema/go-mp4) and go-astits (https://github.com/asticode/go-astits), but without the proper explanation/documentation it is difficult to grasp these libraries.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing goav and go-mp4 you can also consider the following projects:

go-libav - Go language bindings for ffmpeg libraries

file-type - Detect the file type of a Buffer/Uint8Array/ArrayBuffer

gmf - Go Media Framework

go-astits - Demux and mux MPEG Transport Streams (.ts) natively in GO

Vnc2Video - A fully featured VNC client written in golang

mp4ff - Library and tools for parsing and writing MP4 files including video, audio and subtitles. The focus is on fragmented files. Includes mp4ff-info, mp4ff-encrypt, mp4ff-decrypt and other tools.

Pion WebRTC - Pure Go implementation of the WebRTC API

tag - ID3, MP4 and OGG/FLAC metadata parsing in Go

M3U8 - Parser and generator of M3U8-playlists for Apple HLS. Library for Go language. :cinema:

file-type-stream-go - Detect file types–extensions and mime–using magic numbers

v4l - Facade to the Video4Linux video capture interface.

Vidio - FFmpeg wrapper providing simple, cross-platform Video I/O, GIF Creation, and Webcam Streaming in Go.