[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] avcodec: Remove libstagefright

[Matthieu Bouron]

On Sun, Jan 03, 2016 at 01:37:18PM -0500, Derek Buitenhuis wrote:
> It serves absolutely no purpose other than to confuse potentional
> Android developers about how to use hardware acceleration properly
> on the the platform. Both stagefright itself, and MediaCodec, have
> avcodec backends already, and this is the correct way to use it.
> MediaCodec as a proper JNI API.

MediaCodec is the current way to go on Android either via JNI or using its
C API that has been introduced in Android 5. I'm not sure if there is
already an avcodec backend for it as I'm currently working on one based on
the C API (h264 decoding is working, the flush command still need to be
implemented; some patch can be expected at the end of the month).

>
> Furthermore, stagefright support in avcodec needs a series of
> magic incantations and version-specific stuff, such that
> using it actually provides downsides compared just using the actual
> Android frameworks properly, in that it is a lot more work and confusion
> to get it even running. It also leads to a lot of misinformation, like
> these sorts of comments (in [1]) that are absolutely incorrect.

+1 for removal (but I'm not an user of this backend).

Matthieu

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