Apps Video - .mp4 files

[baris3437]

Hi everyone,

I am developing an application called video summarization on android platform. In my application I need to decode .mp4 files. Unfortunately I couldn't handle it.
With my research, I found that Opencv can make this easily. Although I can use other opencv functions with NDK, I can not use ffmpeg decoders.

Please give the way to open a .mp4 file and get its frame.

thanks in advance.

 

[jonbonazza]

Read up on the internal structure of the MP4 file format. Essentially, all file formats are nothing but an arrangement of bytes plus a small padding of bytes called the header. If you know the internal structure of a particular format, then you should have no trouble streaming or even manipulating the file.

 

[baris3437]

Read up on the internal structure of the MP4 file format. Essentially, all file formats are nothing but an arrangement of bytes plus a small padding of bytes called the header. If you know the internal structure of a particular format, then you should have no trouble streaming or even manipulating the file.

Thank you for your reply.
.mp4 file format is so complicated. if I try to code in order to retrieve frames from file, this may be time consuming. Opencv has ready functions to solve this problem. unfortunately I cant use it.

 

[jonbonazza]

Complicated, yes, however if you create the class in a component-oriented nature, it can be reused over multiple projects, and one could even offer it to the community.

Another option would be to open up a GoogleCode project and create the API in an open source fashion, allowing others to aid in the creation of the API.