[Libav-user] Would anyone find an OS X / Cocoa / Swift wrapper for Libav useful?

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> On 25 Jan 2015, at 00:46, wm4 <nfxjfg at googlemail.com> wrote:
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> On Sun, 25 Jan 2015 00:25:34 +0100
> Info || Non-Lethal Applications <info at non-lethal-applications.com>
> wrote:
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>>>> for asking design questions on the mailing list and being relegated to
>>>> reading through undocumented source code for a month “open”. Sure it is
>>>> free of licensing charges, but FFmpeg is not free — unless you have got
>>>> a vanilla use-case encapsulated in the canned examples, you are most
>>>> likely in for a deep-sea expedition, and you’ll most definitely be
>>>> investing a large amount of time trying to understand how to use it. 
>>> 
>>> The main issue is actually that the FFmpeg API is pretty low-level,
>>> while many users expect something higher level. (Somewhat typical: a
>>> user wants frame N of video in a specific format. Yeah, implementing
>>> this using the raw FFmpeg API will take some time.)
>> 
>> 
>> I’d like to chime in on that one.
>> While I’m using FFmpeg on OS X only (at least right now), I wouldn’t insist of having an OS X only wrapper.
>> A C++ cross-platform one would work just as well for me. 
> 
> Sure, that's kind of hard to do with Cocoa/Swift.
> 
> (Also, C++ APIs are useful for C++ code only.)

Not exactly. They don’t work in Swift (there are also ways to use C++ source there) but they can be used in Objective-C (then called Objective-C++) without any action on the developer’s side.
You simply need to change the file extension from m to mm. Not a big deal.

>> Alternatively, it would be really cool to add a high-level API for the most common use cases to the roadmap:
>> Getting frame N of video in a specific format, getting audio samples from N to M in a specific format.
> 
> I don't think the FFmpeg project would be opposed to adding such a
> high-level (C) API. It was often talked about, but of course nobody has
> time etc….

Well, then the only solution is creating a high level wrapper?


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