jcodec - a pure java implementation of video/audio codecs.

About

JCodec is a library implementing a set of popular video and audio codecs. Currently JCodec supports:

• Video

  • H.264 Main profile decoder ( CAVLC/CABAC, I/P/B frames );
  • H.264 Baseline profile encoder ( CAVLC, I-frames only, P-frames as of version 0.2 );
  • MPEG 1/2 decoder ( I/P/B frames, interlace );
  • Apple ProRes decoder;
  • Apple ProRes encoder;
  • JPEG decoder;

• Audio

  • SMPTE 302M decoder;

• Wrappers ( muxers, demuxers, formats ):

  • MP4 ( ISO BMF, Apple QuickTime ) de-muxer;
  • MP4 ( ISO BMF, Apple QuickTime ) muxer;
  • MKV ( Matroska ) de-muxer;
  • MKV ( Matroska ) muxer;
  • MPEG PS ( Program Stream ) demuxer;
  • MPEG TS ( Transport Stream ) demuxer;

JCodec is free software distributed under FreeBSD License.

Future development

Those are just some of the things JCodec dev team is planning to work on:

• Video
  • Improve H.264 encoder: CABAC, rate control;
  • Performance optimize H.264 decoder;
  • Implement H.264 encoder on RenderScript;
  • Native optimizations for decoders and encoders;
• Audio
  • AAC encoder;

Getting started

Build from the source and include both JARs (jcodec.jar and jcodec-javase.jar) in your projects. Alternatively, obsolete versions can be included automatically with maven. For this just add below snippet to your pom.xml-

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.jcodec</groupId>
    <artifactId>jcodec-javase</artifactId>
    <version>0.1.9</version>
</dependency>

OR download it from here (you will need both jars):

• JCodec 0.1.9 JAR, GPG Sign, POM
• JCodec JavaSE 0.1.9 JAR, GPG Sign, POM

There is virtually no documentation right now but the plan is to catch up on this so stay tuned. stackoverflow.com contains quite a bit information at this point. Also check the 'samples' subfolder. It's a maven project, and it contains some code samples for the popular use-cases:

• Encoding using high-level API -- SequenceEncoderDemo.java;
• Encoding/decoding using low-level API -- TranscodeMain.java;

Sample code

Getting a single frame from a movie ( supports only AVC, H.264 in MP4, ISO BMF, Quicktime container ):

    int frameNumber = 150;
    BufferedImage frame = AWTFrameGrab8Bit.getFrame(new File("filename.mp4"), frameNumber);
    ImageIO.write(frame, "png", new File("frame_150.png"));

Getting a sequence of frames from a movie ( supports only AVC, H.264 in MP4, ISO BMF, Quicktime container ):

    double startSec = 51.632;
    int frameCount = 10;
    FileChannelWrapper ch = null;
    try {
        ch = NIOUtils.readableChannel(new File("filename.mp4"));
        AWTFrameGrab8Bit fg = AWTFrameGrab8Bit.createAWTFrameGrab8Bit(ch);
        fg.seekToSecondPrecise(startSec);
        for (int i = 0; i < frameCount; i++) {
            BufferedImage frameImage = grab.getFrame();
            if (frameImage != null) {
                ImageIO.write(grab.getFrame(), "png",
                    new File(System.getProperty("user.home"), String.format("Desktop/frame_%08d.png", i)));
            } else break;
        }
    } finally {
        NIOUtils.closeQuietly(ch);
    }

Contact

Feel free to communicate any questions or concerns to us. Dev team email: [email protected]