crosvm/media/ffmpeg
Daniel Verkamp 92aeb322b3 media: ffmpeg: update bindings to ffmpeg 6.0
thread_safe_callbacks is removed because that field has been deprecated
and the callbacks are required to be thread safe now.

BUG=b:309563850
TEST=crosvm builds locally and boots with a working ffmpeg video device.

Change-Id: Ic6777c1c413d27c038106adbf6022eb044a5365d
Reviewed-on: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/crosvm/crosvm/+/5008192
Reviewed-by: Dennis Kempin <denniskempin@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@chromium.org>
2023-11-20 18:34:35 +00:00
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src media: ffmpeg: update bindings to ffmpeg 6.0 2023-11-20 18:34:35 +00:00
bindgen.sh
build.rs media: ffmpeg: update bindings to ffmpeg 6.0 2023-11-20 18:34:35 +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: update bindings to ffmpeg 6.0 2023-11-20 18:34:35 +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.