Membrane H264 FFmpeg plugin

This package provides H264 video decoder and encoder, based on ffmpeg and x264.

It is a part of the Membrane Multimedia Framework

Documentation is available at HexDocs

Note: Membrane.H264.FFmpeg.Parser has been removed. Now you can use our pure Elixir implementation of the H264 parser: Membrane.H264.Parser from membrane_h264_plugin.

Installation

Add the following line to your deps in mix.exs. Run mix deps.get.

{:membrane_h264_ffmpeg_plugin, "~> 0.32.5"}

This package depends on the ffmpeg libraries. The precompiled builds will be pulled and linked automatically. However, should there be any problems, consider installing it manually.

Manual instalation of dependencies

Ubuntu

sudo apt-get install libavcodec-dev libavformat-dev libavutil-dev

Arch/Manjaro

pacman -S ffmpeg

MacOS

brew install ffmpeg

Usage Example

Decoder

The following pipeline takes 30fps H264 file and decodes it to the raw video.

Logger.configure(level: :info)

Mix.install([
  :membrane_h264_ffmpeg_plugin,
  :membrane_h264_plugin,
  :membrane_file_plugin,
  :req
])

h264 = Req.get!("https://raw.githubusercontent.com/membraneframework/static/gh-pages/samples/ffmpeg-testsrc.h264").body
File.write!("input.h264", h264)

defmodule Decoding.Pipeline do
  use Membrane.Pipeline

  @impl true
  def handle_init(_ctx, _opts) do
    structure =
      child(%Membrane.File.Source{chunk_size: 40_960, location: "input.h264"})
      |> child(Membrane.H264.Parser)
      |> child(Membrane.H264.FFmpeg.Decoder)
      |> child(%Membrane.File.Sink{location: "output.raw"})

    {[spec: structure], %{}}
  end
end

Membrane.Pipeline.start_link(Decoding.Pipeline)

Encoder

The following pipeline takes 720p raw video file as input and encodes it as H264.

defmodule Encoding.Pipeline do
  use Membrane.Pipeline

  @impl true
  def handle_init(_) do
    structure =
      child(:source, %Membrane.File.Source{chunk_size: 40_960, location: "input.raw"})
      |> child(:parser, %Membrane.RawVideo.Parser{width: 1280, height: 720, pixel_format: :I420})
      |> child(:encoder, %Membrane.H264.FFmpeg.Encoder{preset: :fast, crf: 30})
      |> child(:sink, %Membrane.File.Sink{location: "output.h264"})

    {[spec: structure], %{}}
  end
end

Copyright and License

Copyright 2018, Software Mansion