goav

Golang binding for FFmpeg 4.0.2. Forked from here

Libraries

• avcodec corresponds to the ffmpeg library: libavcodec [provides implementation of a wider range of codecs]
• avformat corresponds to the ffmpeg library: libavformat [implements streaming protocols, container formats and basic I/O access]
• avutil corresponds to the ffmpeg library: libavutil [includes hashers, decompressors and miscellaneous utility functions]
• avfilter corresponds to the ffmpeg library: libavfilter [provides a mean to alter decoded Audio and Video through chain of filters]
• avdevice corresponds to the ffmpeg library: libavdevice [provides an abstraction to access capture and playback devices]
• swresample corresponds to the ffmpeg library: libswresample [implements audio mixing and resampling routines]
• swscale corresponds to the ffmpeg library: libswscale [implements color conversion and scaling routines]

Installation

Depends on FFMpeg 3.2.xx: install instructions here. Note: This version is included in Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety), but Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial) is still on 2.7.xx. You will need to install an updated version

sudo apt-get -y --force-yes install autoconf automake build-essential libass-dev libfreetype6-dev libsdl1.2-dev libtheora-dev libtool libva-dev libvdpau-dev libvorbis-dev libxcb1-dev libxcb-shm0-dev libxcb-xfixes0-dev pkg-config texi2html zlib1g-dev

sudo apt-get install yasm

export FFMPEG_ROOT=$HOME/ffmpeg
export CGO_LDFLAGS="-L$FFMPEG_ROOT/lib/ -lavcodec -lavformat -lavutil -lswscale -lswresample -lavdevice -lavfilter"
export CGO_CFLAGS="-I$FFMPEG_ROOT/include"
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$HOME/ffmpeg/lib

go get github.com/giorgisio/goav

More Examples

Coding examples are available in the examples/ directory.

Note

• Function names in Go are consistent with that of the libraries to help with easy search
• cgo: Extending Go with C
• goav comes with absolutely no warranty.

Contribute

• Fork this repo and create your own feature branch.
• Follow standard Go conventions
• Test your code.
• Create pull request

TODO

• Write some Go Tests
• Get working in Wercker -- requires tests

License

This library is under the MIT License