Sdcb.FFmpeg

FFmpeg auto generated unsafe bindings for C#/.NET, forked from https://github.com/Ruslan-B/FFmpeg.AutoGen.

Compared to original version, For low-level APIs, Sdcb.FFmpeg optimized for:

• Using standard [DllImport] instead of LoadLibrary
• Deleted common prefix or enums, for example it emited AVCodecID.H264 instead of AVCodecID.AV_CODEC_ID_H264
• Combined same prefix macros into a enum, for example AV_DICT_READ.MatchCase instead of AV_DICT_MATCH_CASE
• Other optimization and fixs...

Sdcb.FFmpeg also provided some high level APIs:

• wrapper of class-like APIs like FormatContext/CodecContext/MediaDictionary
• helper of wrapping existing APIs like FramesExtensions.ApplyFilters
• some source generators like VideoFrameGenerator.Yuv420pSequence

For code generations, Sdcb.FFmpeg have benifits from:

• Minimized repository size, removed all ffmpeg *.dll binaries using bfg
• Auto download FFmpeg binaries from known existing sources

NuGet Packages

• FFmpeg 4.4.2:

  Package	Link
  Sdcb.FFmpeg
  Sdcb.FFmpeg.runtime.windows-x64

• FFmpeg 5.x:

  Package	Link
  Sdcb.FFmpeg
  Sdcb.FFmpeg.runtime.windows-x64

Install

Install the PInvoke nuget package(please try install the latest version of 4.x):

• https://www.nuget.org/packages/Sdcb.FFmpeg/4.4.2-preview.6

Note:

• I'm maintaince both 4.4.2 and 5.x version at same time, but 4.4.2 is my higher priority. because current LTS version of Ubuntu is install 4.x version by default.
• some API isn't stable enough and subjected to change at any time, please try install the specific version and keep a eye on latest updates.

You also need to install FFmpeg binaries native assets or related nuget packages:

• Windows:
  Install NuGet package:

  • For FFmpeg 4.4.2: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Sdcb.FFmpeg.runtime.windows-x64/4.4.2
  • For FFmpeg 5.1.1: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Sdcb.FFmpeg.runtime.windows-x64/5.1.1

  Note: these packages is under published under GPL license, you can also download/compile your own native assets, Sdcb.FFmpeg will link to specific ffmpeg native dynamic libraries automatically according your environment variable.

• Linux:
  Use your package manager of choice, in Ubuntu 22.04 & ffmpeg 4.4.2 specificly, you can write following commands:

  apt update
  apt install software-properties-common
  add-apt-repository ppa:savoury1/ffmpeg4 -y
  apt update
  apt install ffmpeg -y

  For ffmpeg 5.x, you can write following commands:

  apt update
  apt install software-properties-common
  add-apt-repository ppa:savoury1/ffmpeg4 -y
  add-apt-repository ppa:savoury1/ffmpeg5 -y
  apt update
  apt install ffmpeg -y

• Mac OS X:
  Install ffmpeg via Homebrew:

  brew install ffmpeg

For the more sophisticated operations please refer to offical ffmpeg Documentation expecially API section of it.

Tutorial and examples

You can refer to Examples.cs for multiple tutorial and examples.

Build & Generation

The bindings generator uses CppSharp.

Prerequisites:

• Visual Studio 2022 with C# and C++ desktop development workloads and Windows SDK for desktop.

Steps to generate:

• Run Sdcb.FFmpeg.AutoGen
• All files with extension *.g.cs in Sdcb.FFmpeg project will be regenerated.

License

Copyright © Sdcb, Ruslan Balanukhin 2022 All rights reserved.

Distributed under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) version 3.
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html