[Libav-user] HW decoding on Android

[Alex Cohn]

On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 1:22 PM, Licheng Niu <niulicheng at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am not familiar with libstagefright in ffmpeg and I believe it works well
> on most devices. But since libstagefright uses Openmax IL api, I guess there
> would be some incompatible issues.
> The most frequently happened problem is color format incompatible. However,
> color format incompatible doesn't affect decoding.
> Another problem for example: On TI Tegra II cpu, there is a special way to
> use openmax api.

The advantage of stagefright is to provide a cros-device interface,
and compensate for OpenMax IL incompatibilities. This said, there
still may be hw-specific quirks, especially when using older devices.

BR,
Alex