an issue about the wmv format support for android

[Wankey Cheng]

Sebastian Dröge:

I got it,Thanks for your answer.


2013/10/10 Sebastian Dröge <slomo at circular-chaos.org>

> On Do, 2013-10-10 at 15:50 +0800, Wankey Cheng wrote:
> > Hi guys,
> >     I'm going to develop a video app of android,it's need to support wmv
> > format.After I search some media framework,I choose gstreamer.but,I
> found a
> > pdf file about gstreamer of android,which said "WMV and WMA and many
> other
> > weird codecs Only available on Tegra 3 devices",but I cound not found
> same
> > description on offical website(both http://www.gstreamer.com/ and
> > http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org).
>
> gstreamer.com is not an official website of the GStreamer project, it's
> owned and done by some company. Only gstreamer.freedesktop.org is the
> official website of the GStreamer project :) But that doesn't solve your
> problem I guess ;)
>
> > so, I hope get an answer about this problem.is it true?
>
> WMV/WMA are supported by GStreamer on any device via software decoders
> (from gst-libav). They are currently not supported via hardware/device
> decoders on Android, as there is no Android API that supports those
> codecs (officially).
>
> It might be possible to add support for them to the androidmedia plugin
> (which uses the android.media.MediaCodec API), but would need someone
> with a device that has support for it to implement. If you look at the
> code, the codec specific handling in there is rather minimal, should be
> easy to implement :)
>
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