More information about the formats urls that FlyLeaf lib accepts as inputs

[stefantripac]

2 weeks ago, I try to use the one of the C sharp libraries for video playing and/or transcoding, I tested FlyLeaf Lib and LIbVLCSharp, I want to integrate a player into an existing application( framework4.8, wpf), sensitive features for me are also: accessible snapshots in memory and some transcoding features. LibVlcSharp has transcoding features but for snapshots, it only offers snapshots into files, but files are only big size because hardcoded .png in video.c . The FlayLeaf lib has the "TakeSnapshotToBitmap" that match my wishes and also many types of formats that can be played,

1. I want to know some explicit examples of the format urls that I can pass to Open with FlayLeaf Lib. For example I can add transcoding option from ffmpeg to the input url string ? ,
2. I found in the "Config.cs" of the Lib the commment: /// When enabled you can pass urls in this format device://[device_name]?[FFmpeg_Url]///, can some one tell me what are option [FFmpeg_Url] with some examples for size , video , coding output format ... ?
   Thank you

[SuRGeoNix]

Hi @stefantripac, indeed flyleaf currently does not support transcoding as it was focusing on playback only (at least initially). The upcoming v4 will be platform independent and more general purpose media processing library (including transcoding + filtering). You can find some more info for the fmt urls in the comments here: https://github.com/SuRGeoNix/Flyleaf/blob/master/FlyleafLib/MediaFramework/MediaDemuxer/Demuxer.cs#L362

You cannot currently do the transcoding with just a Url. You could manually write a transcoder and pass the snapshot hardware frame for it. That will not be easy though.

[SuRGeoNix]

Use Config.Demuxer.ForceFormat to specify the input format (in your case "mpegts")

[stefantripac]

Ok , it works ,

Thank you.

[stefantripac]

Hi, I red this comment in Config.cs : { "rtsp_transport", "tcp" }, // Seems UDP causing issues,

I tested with RTSP on UDP, it works, What are the issues that you warn ?

[SuRGeoNix]

When you lose a packet within a GOP you will have corrupted frames until the next one. Except that I think there was a 'bug' with D3D11 and hardware acceleration with UDP. Generally, TCP is consider more reliable.

[stefantripac]

Thank you for the answer.