ffmpeg原版（英文）教程

## An ffmpeg and SDL Tutorial Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 Part 7 Part 8 End ffmpeg is a wonderful library for creating video applications or even general purpose utilities. ffmpeg takes care of all the hard work of video processing by doing all the decoding, encoding, muxing and demuxing for you. This can make media applications much simpler to write. It's simple, written in C, fast, and can decode almost any codec you'll find in use today, as well as encode several other formats. The only prolem is that documentation is basically nonexistent. There is a single tutorial that shows the basics of ffmpeg and auto-generated doxygen documents. That's it. So, when I decided to learn about ffmpeg, and in the process about how digital video and audio applications work, I decided to document the process and present it as a tutorial. There is a sample program that comes with ffmpeg called ffplay. It is a simple C program that implements a complete video player using ffmpeg. This tutorial will begin with an updated version of the original tutorial, written by Martin Bohme (I have stolen liberally borrowed from that work), and work from there to developing a working video player, based on Fabrice Bellard's ffplay.c. In each tutorial, I'll introduce a new idea (or two) and explain how we implement it. Each tutorial will have a C file so you can download it, compile it, and follow along at home. The source files will show you how the real program works, how we move all the pieces around, as well as showing you the technical details that are unimportant to the tutorial. By the time we are finished, we will have a working video player written in less than 1000 lines of code! In making the player, we will be using SDL to output the audio and video of the media file. SDL is an excellent cross-platform multimedia library that's used in MPEG playback software, emulators, and many video games. You will need to download and install the SDL development libraries for your system in order to compile the programs in this tutorial. This tutorial is meant for people with a decent programming background. At the very least you should know C and have some idea about concepts like queues, mutexes, and so on. You should know some basics about multimedia; things like waveforms and such, but you don't need to know a lot, as I explain a lot of those concepts in this tutorial. There are printable HTML files along the way as well as old school ASCII files. You can also get a tarball of the text files and source code or just the source. You can get a printable page of the full thing in HTML or in text. **UPDATE:** I've fixed a code error in Tutorial 7 and 8, as well as adding -lavutil. Please feel free to email me with bugs, questions, comments, ideas, features, whatever, at _dranger at gmail dot com_. _**>>** Proceed with the tutorial!_ ## Tutorial 01: Making Screencaps Code: tutorial01.c ### Overview Movie files have a few basic components. First, the file itself is called a **container**, and the type of container determines where the information in the file goes. Examples of containers are AVI and Quicktime. Next, you have a bunch of **streams**; for example, you usually have an audio stream and a video stream. (A "stream" is just a fancy word for "a succession of data elements made available over time".) The data elements in a stream are called **frames**. Each stream is encoded by a different kind of **codec**. The codec defines how the actual data is COded and DECoded - hence the name CODEC. Examples of codecs are DivX and MP3. **Packets** are then read from the stream. Packets are pieces of data that can contain bits of data that are decoded into raw frames that we can finally manipulate for our application. For our purposes, each packet contains complete frames, or multiple frames in the case of audio. At its very basic level, dealing with video and audio streams is very easy: 10 OPEN video_stream FROM video.avi 20 READ packet FROM video_stream INTO frame 30 IF frame NOT COMPLETE GOTO 20 40 DO SOMETHING WITH frame 50 GOTO 20 Handling multimedia with ffmpeg is pretty much as simple as this program, although some programs might have a very complex "DO SOMETHING" step. So in this tutorial, we're going to open a file, read from the video stream inside it, and our DO SOMETHING is going to be writing the frame to a PPM file. ### Opening the File First, let's see how we open a file in the first place. With ffmpeg, you have to first initialize the library. (Note that some systems might have to use <ffmpeg/avcodec.h> and <ffmpeg/avformat.h> instead.) #include <avcodec.h> #include <avformat.h> ... int main(int argc, charg *argv[]) { av_register_all(); This registers all available file formats and codecs with the library so they will be used automatically when a file with the corresponding format/codec is opened. Note that you only need to call av_register_all() once, so we do it here in main(). If you like, it's possible to register only certain individual file formats and codecs, but there's usually no reason why you would have to do that. Now we can actually open the file: AVFormatContext *pFormatCtx; // Open video file if(av_open_input_file(&pFormatCtx, argv[1], NULL, 0, NULL)!=0) return -1; // Couldn't open file We get our filename from the first argument. This function reads the file header and stores information about the file format in the AVFormatContext structure we have given it. The last three arguments are used to specify the file format, buffer size, and format options, but by setting this to NULL or 0, libavformat will auto-detect these. This function only looks at the header, so next we need to check out the stream information in the file.: // Retrieve stream information if(av_find_stream_info(pFormatCtx)<0) return -1; // Couldn't find stream information This function populates pFormatCtx->streams with the proper information. We introduce a handy debugging function to show us what's inside: // Dump information about file onto standard error dump_format(pFormatCtx, 0, argv[1], 0); Now pFormatCtx->streams is just an array of pointers, of size pFormatCtx->nb_streams, so let's walk through it until we find a video stream. int i; AVCodecContext *pCodecCtx; // Find the first video stream videoStream=-1; for(i=0; i<pFormatCtx->nb_streams; i++) if(pFormatCtx->streams[i]->codec->codec_type==CODEC_TYPE_VIDEO) { videoStream=i; break; } if(videoStream==-1) return -1; // Didn't find a video stream // Get a pointer to the codec context for the video stream pCodecCtx=pFormatCtx->streams[videoStream]->codec; The stream's information about the codec is in what we call the "codec context." This contains all the information about the codec that the stream is using, and now we have a pointer to it. But we still have to find the actual codec and open it: AVCodec *pCodec; // Find the decoder for the video stream pCodec=avcodec_find_decoder(pCodecCtx->codec_id); if(pCodec==NULL) { fprintf(stderr, "Unsupported codec!\n"); return -1; // Codec not found } // Open codec if(avcodec_open(pCodecCtx, pCodec)<0) return -1; // Could not open codec Some of you might remember from the old tutorial that there were two other parts to this code: adding CODEC_FLAG_TRUNCATED to pCodecCtx->flags and adding a hack to correct grossly incorrect frame rates. These two fixes aren't in ffplay.c anymore, so I have to assume that they are not necessary anymore. There's another difference to point out since we removed that code: pCodecCtx->time_base now holds the frame rate information. time_base is a struct that has the numerator and de