VideoNative

A way of rendering video in python.

Build Instructions

Pre-compiled libs are present under bin folder.

Windows

• Move to the windows directory.

  cd windows
  

• Install visual cpp build tools for building on windows.

  winget install Microsoft.VisualStudio.BuildTools
  

• Install FFmpeg from https://gyan.dev

  winget install Gyan.FFmpeg.Shared
  

• Copy all files under ffmpegdirectory/bin folder to ./bin/windows.

• Edit Makefile accordingly.

• Steps to build the dll (Windows):

  nmake clean
  nmake
  

After compiling move the libvideo.dll to bin/windows folder.

Linux

• Move to linux directory.

  cd linux
  

• Install ffmpeg and other libs.

  sudo apt install build-essential pkg-config ffmpeg libavcodec-dev libavformat-dev libavutil-dev libswscale-dev libswresample-dev
  

• Build using make

  make clean
  make
  

After compiling move the libvideo.so to bin/linux folder.

Android

Using pythonforandroid toolchain

• Add videonative and ffmpeg as requirements in buildozer.spec.
• Use p4a.fork = novfensec and p4a.branch=videonative to build for android.

Manually building from source

For building libvideo.so yourself compile the ffmpeg library for the android and make it available in path. then move to android directory and run make.

cd android
make