Consider switching from ffmpeg4android library as it costs $400

[kmturley]

Great plugin, working really well :)

Just a question, if you can switch the dependancy on the ffmpeg4android library. When running it states it's only a trial. After investigation I've found the license costs $400!!

I/Videokit﹕ licenseCheck in path: /data/data/com.example.hello/files
I/Videokit﹕ isLicExistsComplex...
I/Videokit﹕ trying to open /data/data/com.example.hello/files/ffmpeglicense.lic
I/Videokit﹕ license file found...
I/Videokit﹕ You used 1 of your 15 trial days.

I believe this is the license information here:
http://www.appfree.org/item.php?item_id=com.netcompss.ffmpeg4android
http://ffmpeg4android.netcompss.com/home/purchase

Consider switching to another library such as:
https://github.com/roman10/android-ffmpeg-tutorial
https://github.com/appunite/AndroidFFmpeg
https://github.com/guardianproject/android-ffmpeg
https://github.com/yixia/FFmpeg-Android
https://github.com/hiteshsondhi88/ffmpeg-android
https://github.com/hiteshsondhi88/ffmpeg-android-java

Thanks!

[rossmartin]

I found this out awhile back and there is a pull request from April 2 (#13) that has not been merged yet. I refactored the android plugin to use android-ffmpeg-java (which is actually better anyways and is free) and this pull request is ready to go fixing this issue.

Thanks.

[kmturley]

awesome, will take a look!

[brodycj]

Unfortunately android-ffmpeg-java from @guardianproject is under GPL which can be a major problem for many users. I noticed https://github.com/appunite/AndroidFFmpeg has Apache 2.0 license which would be much better (though it does have some dependencies with other licenses).

[kmturley]

@rossmartin I tried your pull request and it worked for a single video. Also it is logging ffmepg errors into the java console which makes things much easier!!

However when I try to use the concatAndTrimFilesMP4Stream function I run into an error. Do you know why this might be?

ArrayList<Clip> listVideos = new ArrayList<Clip>();

Clip clip = new Clip();
clip.path = new File(videoSrcPath).getCanonicalPath();
ffmpegController.getInfo(clip);
clip.duration = 5;
listVideos.add(clip);

Clip clip2 = new Clip();
clip2.path = new File(videoSrcPath2).getCanonicalPath();
ffmpegController.getInfo(clip2);
clip2.duration = 5;
listVideos.add(clip2);

Clip clipOut = new Clip();
clipOut.path = new File(outputFilePath).getCanonicalPath();
ffmpegController.concatAndTrimFilesMP4Stream(listVideos, clipOut, false, false, new ShellUtils.ShellCallback() {
    @Override
    public void shellOut(String shellLine) {
        System.out.println("fc>" + shellLine);
    }
    @Override
    public void processComplete(int exitValue) {
        if (exitValue < 0)
            System.err.println("concat non-zero exit: " + exitValue);
    }
});

The error I get is:
videoSrcPath: /storage/emulated/0/Movies/-a.mp4
videoSrcPath2: /storage/emulated/0/Movies/-b.mp4
outputFilePath: /storage/emulated/0/Movies/HelloWorld/VID_1436584506888.mp4
/storage/emulated/0/Android/data/com.example.hello/cache/ffmpeg-246029513.tmp/1.ts: Not a directory

It is creating the .ts file automatically, I am only passing in mp4 files

[kmturley]

There is an issue with the datetime format function of android-ffmpeg-java here:
https://github.com/guardianproject/android-ffmpeg-java/blob/master/src/org/ffmpeg/android/FfmpegController.java#L653

I've have changed to:

long datetime = (long) mediaIn.duration * 1000;
Date date = new Date(datetime);
DateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("HH:mm:ss");
String dateFormatted = formatter.format(date);
cmd.add(dateFormatted);
Log.d(TAG, "dateFormatted: " + dateFormatted);

And it's working much better!