bitmap2video

Generate video from a Bitmap, Canvas, or resource drawable in Android.

Create mp4 video from Bitmaps or anything you can draw to a hardware accelerated Canvas. Pure, simple Android MediaCodec implementation. Requires no third party libs or NDK.

Currently supports the MP4 container and both AVC/H264 and HEVC/H265. Easily extensible to other supported formats.

Run the sample app or check out and MainActivity for an example.

Dependencies

Add it in your root build.gradle at the end of repositories:

allprojects {
  repositories {
    ...
    maven { url 'https://jitpack.io' }
  }
}

Add to your app dependencies:

dependencies {
  implementation 'com.github.israel-fl:bitmap2video:2.0.0'
}

Initialize library

Simply create a Muxer object

val muxer = Muxer(this@MainActivity, "/files/video.mp4")
// and mux
muxer.mux(imageArray)

Use callbacks to listen for video completion:

muxer.setOnMuxingCompletedListener(object : MuxingCompletionListener {
    override fun onVideoSuccessful(file: File) {
        Log.d(TAG, "Video muxed - file path: ${file.absolutePath}")
    }

    override fun onVideoError(error: Throwable) {
        Log.e(TAG, "There was an error muxing the video")
    }
})

Thread(Runnable {
    muxer.mux(imageArray, R.raw.bensound_happyrock)
}).start()

Or use a co-routine by calling muxAsync:

scope.launch {
    when (val result = muxer.muxAsync(imageArray, R.raw.bensound_happyrock)) {
        is MuxingSuccess -> {
            Log.i(TAG, "Video muxed - file path: ${result.file.absolutePath}")
            onMuxerCompleted()
        }
        is MuxingError -> {
            Log.e(TAG, "There was an error muxing the video")
            bt_make.isEnabled = true
        }
    }
}

Passing a custom configuration object

val muxerConfig = MuxerConfig(this, 600, 600, 'video/avc', 3, 1F, 1500000)
val muxer = Muxer(this@MainActivity, muxerConfig!!)
// or
muxer.setMuxerConfig(muxerConfig)

Supported configuration

• File object
• video width
• video height
• Mimetype
• Frames per image (how many seconds to display each image)
• Frames per second
• Bitrate
• FrameMuxer (only MP4 included currently)
• IFrame Interval

Acceptable media types:

The library currently supports Bitmap, Canvas, and drawable resources (R.drawable.image1)

Adding Audio

In order to add audio, pass in an audio track to the mux method.

muxer.mux(imageArray, R.raw.bensound_happyrock)

Convenience utility functions

We provide a few functions to simplify a couple of tasks. These can be found as static methods under FileUtils

Get an AssetFileDescriptor from a raw resource

getFileDescriptor(Context context, int R.raw.sound_file)

Get a File object for your video

getVideoFile(final Context context, final String fileName)

Export the created file to other applications

shareVideo(Context context, File file, String mimeType)

Note

These utility functions use the library's ContentProvider with declared authorities and specified paths.

Declare your own ContentProvider

You can change which provider is being used and specify your paths if you register your own against the manifest and create your own resources. You must then pass in the appropriate paths to the functions. See the library's AndroidManifest for an example.

getVideoFile(Context context, String fileDir, String fileName)

and

shareVideo(Context context, File file, String mimeType, String fileAuthority)