OpenH264 VS FFmpeg

I've installed mpv but was unable to play any videos see this. Then I compiled and installed openh264 from github. Yet, I still have performance issues, video plays like a slide show..

The codecs are open source. Gstreamer. Ffmpeg. H264.

No, it is definitely using hardware acceleration on a number of platforms: https://github.com/cisco/openh264/tree/master/codec/encoder/core and https://github.com/cisco/openh264/tree/master/codec/decoder/core. However, the docs say it will fallback to C/C++. But I don't believe that's happening on popular platforms like x86, ARM, and Aarch64.

I found the extension but haven't been able to get it to work yet. It needs openh264 installed and I haven't been able to figure out where to put the binary for it yet, but if you figure it out let me know! Lol :D

If you had the media.gmp.decoder.enabled pref flipped to true, I might have guessed that Firefox updated the OpenH264 plugin and downgraded it. You could try replacing the library from one at https://github.com/cisco/openh264/releases/tag/v2.3.1. Go to about:support, open your profile directory, and find the gmp-gmpopenh264/1.8.1.2 folder. Replace the binary with the one from the linked github page. Restart Firefox.

Now that CISCO has released an Open Source H.264 Codec available on all major platforms what excuses does Blackmagic Design have left?

Outside of the hardware implementations, the other popular H.264 encoders are MainConcept (which I think Adobe licenses). There are a few others https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Video_Coding#Software_encoders. Cisco's OpenH264 is free, but last time I checked was limited in profile support. The repo claims "Max frame size is 36864 macro-blocks".

This gave me the full video on my hard drive. There is also a feature in yt-dlp to download a certain time segment of a video but it seemed unreliable and I also have to use ffmpeg to add intro and outro videos in any case.

Fortunately, you don’t always need to go to so low level of abstraction when you develop GIF encoding in your app. One of the most popular libraries for image/video encoding is FFmpeg. Android developer-friendly version is not provided officially. However, some wrappers do exist. At the time of writing one of the most popular is Mobile FFmpeg. Something like this will be probably all you need when you just want to produce GIF out of some input source.

There are many methods how we can solve this problem. But here, I would like to tell you about FFmpeg. It is a free and open-source tool available for all major operating systems. FFmpeg is fast and gives good results in compression, changing formats, and resolution.

FFmpeg installed

For this, download the ffmpeg library from the official site of ffmpeg https://ffmpeg.org/.

For MP3s I used ffmpeg and followed the following steps

FFmpeg (https://ffmpeg.org/)

GPL2

Since FFmpeg is GPL2, doesn’t that require CompressX to disclose its source code?

IANAL, apologies if I miss understand license requirements.

https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg?tab=License-1-ov-file