flutter_ffmpeg 0.2.3
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Flutter plugin to run FFmpeg on mobile platforms. Supports iOS and Android.
flutter_ffmpeg #
FFmpeg plugin for Flutter. Supports iOS and Android.

1. Features #
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Based on MobileFFmpeg
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Supports
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Both Android (API 21+) and iOS (SDK 9.3+)
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FFmpeg
v4.2-dev-x
(master) releases -
arm-v7a
,arm-v7a-neon
,arm64-v8a
,x86
andx86_64
architectures on Android -
armv7
,armv7s
,arm64
,arm64e
,i386
andx86_64
architectures on iOS -
24 external libraries
fontconfig
,freetype
,fribidi
,gmp
,gnutls
,kvazaar
,lame
,libaom
,libass
,libiconv
,libilbc
,libtheora
,libvorbis
,libvpx
,libwebp
,libxml2
,opencore-amr
,opus
,shine
,snappy
,soxr
,speex
,twolame
,wavpack
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4 external libraries with GPL license
vid.stab
,x264
,x265
,xvidcore
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zlib
andMediaCodec
Android system libraries -
bzip2
,zlib
iOS system libraries andAudioToolbox
,CoreImage
,VideoToolbox
,AVFoundation
iOS system frameworks
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Licensed under LGPL 3.0, can be customized to support GPL v3.0
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Includes eight different packages with different external libraries enabled in FFmpeg
min | min-gpl | https | https-gpl | audio | video | full | full-gpl | |
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external libraries | - | vid.stab x264 x265 xvidcore |
gmp gnutls |
gmp gnutls vid.stab x264 x265 xvidcore |
lame libilbc libvorbis opencore-amr opus shine soxr speex twolame wavpack |
fontconfig freetype fribidi kvazaar libaom libass libiconv libtheora libvpx libwebp snappy |
fontconfig freetype fribidi gmp gnutls kvazaar lame libaom libass libiconv libilbc libtheora libvorbis libvpx libwebp libxml2 opencore-amr opus shine snappy soxr speex twolame wavpack |
fontconfig freetype fribidi gmp gnutls kvazaar lame libaom libass libiconv libilbc libtheora libvorbis libvpx libwebp libxml2 opencore-amr opus shine snappy soxr speex twolame vid.stab wavpack x264 x265 xvidcore |
android system libraries | zlib MediaCodec |
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ios system libraries | zlib AudioToolbox AVFoundation CoreImage VideoToolbox bzip2 |
2. Installation #
Add flutter_ffmpeg
as a dependency in your pubspec.yaml file.
2.1 Packages
Installation of FlutterFFmpeg
using pub
enables the default package, which is based on https
package. It is possible to enable other packages using the following steps.
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Use the following dependency block in your
pubspec.yaml
file.dependencies: flutter_ffmpeg: git: url: git://github.com/tanersener/flutter-ffmpeg.git ref: v0.2.1 path: packages/flutter_ffmpeg_<package_name>
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Update version in
ref:
argument. -
Set package name in
path: packages/flutter_ffmpeg_<package_name>[_lts]
section. Include_lts
postfix only if you want to depend on anLTS
release.
2.2 LTS Releases
flutter_ffmpeg
is published in two different variants: Main Release
and LTS Release
. Both releases share the same source code but is built with different settings. Below you can see the changes between the two.
In order to install the LTS
variant, install the flutter_ffmpeg_https_lts
package using instructions in 2.1
or append _lts
to the package name you are using.
Main Release | LTS Release | |
---|---|---|
Android API Level | 24 | 21 |
Android Camera Access | Yes | - |
Android Architectures | arm-v7a-neon arm64-v8a x86 x86-64 |
arm-v7a arm-v7a-neon arm64-v8a x86 x86-64 |
Xcode Support | 10.1 | 7.3.1 |
iOS SDK | 12.1 | 9.3 |
iOS Architectures | arm64 arm64e x86-64 |
armv7 arm64 i386 x86-64 |
3. Using #
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Execute commands.
- Use execute() method with a single command line
import 'package:flutter_ffmpeg/flutter_ffmpeg.dart'; final FlutterFFmpeg _flutterFFmpeg = new FlutterFFmpeg(); _flutterFFmpeg.execute("-i file1.mp4 -c:v mpeg4 file2.mp4").then((rc) => print("FFmpeg process exited with rc $rc"));
- Use executeWithArguments() method with an array of arguments
import 'package:flutter_ffmpeg/flutter_ffmpeg.dart'; final FlutterFFmpeg _flutterFFmpeg = new FlutterFFmpeg(); var arguments = ["-i", "file1.mp4", "-c:v", "mpeg4", "file2.mp4"]; _flutterFFmpeg.executeWithArguments(arguments).then((rc) => print("FFmpeg process exited with rc $rc"));
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Check execution output. Zero represents successful execution, non-zero values represent failure.
_flutterFFmpeg.getLastReturnCode().then((rc) => print("Last rc: $rc")); _flutterFFmpeg.getLastCommandOutput().then((output) => print("Last command output: $output"));
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Stop an ongoing operation. Note that this function does not wait for termination to complete and returns immediately.
_flutterFFmpeg.cancel();
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Get media information for a file.
- Print all fields
_flutterFFmpeg.getMediaInformation("<file path or uri>").then((info) => print(info));
- Print selected fields
_flutterFFmpeg.getMediaInformation("<file path or uri>").then((info) { print("Media Information"); print("Path: ${info['path']}"); print("Format: ${info['format']}"); print("Duration: ${info['duration']}"); print("Start time: ${info['startTime']}"); print("Bitrate: ${info['bitrate']}"); if (info['streams'] != null) { final streamsInfoArray = info['streams']; if (streamsInfoArray.length > 0) { for (var streamsInfo in streamsInfoArray) { print("Stream id: ${streamsInfo['index']}"); print("Stream type: ${streamsInfo['type']}"); print("Stream codec: ${streamsInfo['codec']}"); print("Stream full codec: ${streamsInfo['fullCodec']}"); print("Stream format: ${streamsInfo['format']}"); print("Stream full format: ${streamsInfo['fullFormat']}"); print("Stream width: ${streamsInfo['width']}"); print("Stream height: ${streamsInfo['height']}"); print("Stream bitrate: ${streamsInfo['bitrate']}"); print("Stream sample rate: ${streamsInfo['sampleRate']}"); print("Stream sample format: ${streamsInfo['sampleFormat']}"); print("Stream channel layout: ${streamsInfo['channelLayout']}"); print("Stream sar: ${streamsInfo['sampleAspectRatio']}"); print("Stream dar: ${streamsInfo['displayAspectRatio']}"); print("Stream average frame rate: ${streamsInfo['averageFrameRate']}"); print("Stream real frame rate: ${streamsInfo['realFrameRate']}"); print("Stream time base: ${streamsInfo['timeBase']}"); print("Stream codec time base: ${streamsInfo['codecTimeBase']}"); } } }
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Enable log callback and redirect all
FFmpeg
logs to a console/file/widget.void logCallback(int level, String message) { print(message); } ... _flutterFFmpeg.enableLogCallback(this.logCallback);
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Enable statistics callback and follow the progress of an ongoing operation.
void statisticsCallback(int time, int size, double bitrate, double speed, int videoFrameNumber, double videoQuality, double videoFps) { print("Statistics: time: $time, size: $size, bitrate: $bitrate, speed: $speed, videoFrameNumber: $videoFrameNumber, videoQuality: $videoQuality, videoFps: $videoFps"); } ... _flutterFFmpeg.enableStatisticsCallback(this.statisticsCallback);
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Poll statistics without implementing statistics callback.
_flutterFFmpeg.getLastReceivedStatistics().then((stats) => print(stats));
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Reset statistics before starting a new operation.
_flutterFFmpeg.resetStatistics();
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Set log level.
_flutterFFmpeg.setLogLevel(LogLevel.AV_LOG_WARNING);
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Register your own fonts by specifying a custom fonts directory, so they are available to use in
FFmpeg
filters._flutterFFmpeg.setFontDirectory("<folder with fonts>");
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Use your own
fontconfig
configuration._flutterFFmpeg.setFontconfigConfigurationPath("<fontconfig configuration directory>");
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Disable log functionality of the library. Logs will not be printed to console and log callback will be disabled.
_flutterFFmpeg.disableLogs();
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Disable statistics functionality of the library. Statistics callback will be disabled but the last received statistics data will be still available.
_flutterFFmpeg.disableStatistics();
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List enabled external libraries.
_flutterFFmpeg.getExternalLibraries().then((packageList) { packageList.forEach((value) => print("External library: $value")); });
4. Tips #
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You should not use double quotes (") to define your complex filters or map definitions.
-filter_complex [0:v]scale=1280:-1[v] -map [v]
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If your commands include unnecessary quotes or space characters, your command will fail with
No such filter: ' '
errors. Please check your command and remove them. -
flutter_ffmpeg
uses file system paths, it does not know what an assets folder or project folder is. So you can't use resources on those folders directly, you need to provide full paths of those resources. -
execute
method is overloaded and has an optional delimiter parameter. Delimiter defines how the command string will be split into arguments. When delimiter is not specified the space character is used as the default delimiter. Based on this, if one or more of your command arguments include a space character, in filename path or in-filter_complex
block, then your command string will be split into invalid arguments and execution will fail.
You can fix this error by splitting your command string into array yourself and callingexecuteWithArguments
method or using a different delimiter character in your command string and specifying it in theexecute
call. -
Enabling
ProGuard
on Android causes linking errors. Please add the following rule inside yourproguard-rules.pro
file to preserve necessary method names and prevent linking errors.-keep class com.arthenica.mobileffmpeg.Config { native <methods>; void log(int, byte[]); void statistics(int, float, float, long , int, double, double); }
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ffmpeg
requires a validfontconfig
configuration to render subtitles. Unfortunately, Android does not include a defaultfontconfig
configuration. So if you do not register a font or specify afontconfig
configuration under Android, then the burning process will not produce any errors but subtitles won't be burned in your file. You can overcome this situation by registering a font usingsetFontDirectory
method or specifying your ownfontconfig
configuration usingsetFontconfigConfigurationPath
method. -
By default, Xcode compresses
PNG
files during packaging. If you use.png
files in your commands make sure you set the following two settings toNO
. If one of them is set toYES
, your operations may fail withError while decoding stream #0:0: Generic error in an external library
error. -
Some
flutter_ffmpeg
packages includelibc++_shared.so
native library. If a second library which also includeslibc++_shared.so
is added as a dependency,gradle
fails withMore than one file was found with OS independent path 'lib/x86/libc++_shared.so'
error message.You can fix this error by adding the following block into your
build.gradle
.android { packagingOptions { pickFirst 'lib/x86/libc++_shared.so' pickFirst 'lib/x86_64/libc++_shared.so' pickFirst 'lib/armeabi-v7a/libc++_shared.so' pickFirst 'lib/arm64-v8a/libc++_shared.so' } }
5. Updates #
Refer to Changelog for updates.
6. License #
This project is licensed under the LGPL v3.0. However, if installation is customized to use a package with -gpl
postfix (min-gpl, https-gpl, full-gpl) then FlutterFFmpeg
is subject to the GPL v3.0 license.
Digital assets used in test applications are published in the public domain.
7. Contributing #
Feel free to submit issues or pull requests.