crosvm/media/ffmpeg
Vikram Auradkar 0e1c85f293 clippy: Disallow new_without_default
BUG=b:283512997
TEST=none

Change-Id: If10b73f0cd686ff1a1a17e4aa3260f01e1ee8db5
Reviewed-on: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/crosvm/crosvm/+/4546662
Reviewed-by: Dennis Kempin <denniskempin@google.com>
Commit-Queue: Vikram Auradkar <auradkar@google.com>
2023-05-22 21:14:06 +00:00
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src clippy: Disallow new_without_default 2023-05-22 21:14:06 +00:00
bindgen.sh media/ffmpeg: only show VERSIONS notice on change 2022-09-14 18:01:56 +00:00
build.rs Add conditional compilation for unix-only crates 2023-01-19 21:21:59 +00:00
Cargo.toml Fix remaining Chrome/Chromium OS instances 2023-01-03 22:14:30 +00:00
README.md Fix remaining Chrome/Chromium OS instances 2023-01-03 22:14:30 +00:00
VERSIONS media: ffmpeg: upgrade to ffmpeg 5.0 libraries 2022-08-23 01:47:48 +00:00

FFmpeg wrapper

This is a minimal FFmpeg 5.0 wrapper for use with the virtio-video device, allowing to run a virtual video device backed by software decoding or encoding. This is useful for development and testing in situations where no supported video acceleration is available on the host.

Although several FFmpeg binding crates exist, most of them are not able to link against the system FFmpeg, and the only one that does is released under a software license that makes our lawyers nervous. Also they all run bindgen at build time, which is not possible to do under the ChromeOS build system and would require to patch the crate with fully generated bindings.

So taking this in consideration, as well as the extra work that it is to depend on external Rust crates in ChromeOS, it is preferable to add our own simple bindings here that cover just the parts of FFmpeg that we need.

This crate has minimal dependencies ; on the FFmpeg side, it just uses libavcodec, libavutil and libswscale.

The bindings can be updated using the bindgen.sh script. A few elements that bindgen cannot generate because they are behind C macros are re-defined in avutil.rs and error.rs, as well as tests to ensure their correctness.

And that's about it.