FFmpegInteropX library for Windows

This project is licensed under the Apache 2.0 License

Original source to FFmpegInteropX

The original repo is located here: https://github.com/ffmpeginteropx/FFmpegInteropX

Welcome to FFmpegInteropX

I did next to nothing to get this working with UWP and VS2019. My changes took all of 5 minutes to do. All credit goes to the authors of this library and vcpkg.

FFmpegInteropX is an open-source project that aims to provide an easy way to use FFmpeg in Windows 10 UWP Apps. This allows you to decode a lot of formats that are not natively supported on Windows 10.

FFmpegInteropX is a much improved fork of the original Microsoft project.

Some of the important improvements:

• Multiple audio stream support
• Subtitle support, including external subtitle files
• Audio effects (special thanks to mcosmin222!)
• Stream information retrieval (name, language, format, etc)
• Passthrough of the following video formats for hardware decoding
  • HEVC
  • VC1 (Used in VC1 Advanced Profile)
  • WMV3 (Used in WMV9 and VC1 Simple and Main Profile)
  • MPEG2 (Requires "MPEG-2 Video Extensions" from Windows Store)
  • VP9 (Requires "VP9 Video Extensions" from Windows Store)
• Major performance improvements (zero-copy data handling in all important areas)
• Frame grabber support
• Chapter information support
• API improvements
• Include zlib and bzlib libraries into ffmpeg for full MKV subtitle support
• Include iconv for character encoding conversion
• Lots of bug fixes

Other changes:

• Support for Windows 8.x and Windows Phone 8.x has been dropped
• Visual Studio 2015 support has been dropped

Prerequisites:

Visual Studio 2019 is required.

• Visual Studio 2019 (16.3.x or higher):

  • Select Universal Windows Platform development workload in Installer
  • Select additional components from Installer:
    • Universal Windows Platform tools
    • VC++ 2019 latest version v142 tools
    • Win 10 SDK (10.0.18362.0) for uwp: c#, vb, js
    • Win 10 SDK (10.0.18362.0) for uwp: c++
    • Visual C++ compilers and libraries for ARM64 (optional)
    • Visual C++ compilers and libraries for ARM (optional)
    • C++ UWP tools for ARM64 (optional)
    • C++ runtime for uwp

• Visual Studio 2019:

  • Select Universal Windows Platform development workload in Installer
  • Manually install Windows 10 SDK 10.0.16299.0 from SDK archive for comapatibility with the oldest viable Windows 10 release, priors are a dead end: https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/downloads/sdk-archive
  • Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015 (only if you installed yasm 64-bit)

Building FFmpeg

• Install vcpkg
• .\vcpkg install ffmpeg:x64-uwp --recurse
• Build solutions
• Yes, it's that easy!

Note: The only sigificant change to the original repo project was to retarget the C++ solutions, and change the C++ part as follows:

Additional Include Directories to: $(ProjectDir);$(GeneratedFilesDir);$(IntDir);%(AdditionalIncludeDirectories) Additoinal #using Directories to: $(WindowsSDK_WindowsMetadata);$(AdditionalUsingDirectories)

Credits / contributors

I can't take any credit for filling in dialog boxes :-(

Credits / contributors

• lukasf
• mcosmin222
• MouriNaruto

Thank you also to Microsoft and the team who developed the original library!

Your feedback is appreciated!