[Libav-user] HW decoding on Android

[Alex Cohn]

On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 12:16 PM, Abel Alonso <abelalon at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 2013/6/24 Carl Eugen Hoyos <cehoyos at ag.or.at>
>>
>> Abel Alonso <abelalon at ...> writes:
>>
>> > Yes it's sufficient to requesst the decoder, but I'm
>> > getting a crash when trying to decode the video
>>
>> Can you reproduce the crash with ffmpeg (the application)?
>>
>> Please do not top-post here, Carl Eugen
>>
> The crash is in my application that uses ffmpeg libraries. In order to
> execute the ffmpeg application I built, I should root my Android device,
> right?

Not really. You can push the executable to /data/local/tmp or some
other local directory with r/w access (it must not be on /sdcard/,
because Android does not allow execution from there), chmod 777 and
run it (the input and output files may be on /sdcard/).

BR
Alex