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1) Application Framework
Basically application code utilize android.media APIs to interact with the multimedia hardware.
Provides classes that manage various media interfaces in audio and video.
The Media APIs are used to play and, in some cases, record media files.
e.g., play a video streamed over the web or from local storage
2) Binder IPC
Location : frameworks/av/media/libmedia
MediaPlayer class can be used to control playback of audio/video files and streams.
e.g., on how to use the methods in this class can be found in VideoView
MediaCodecInfo.VideoCapabilities class that supports querying the video capabilities of a
codec. Video performance points are a set of standard performance points defined by
number of pixels, pixel rate and frame rate.
MediaCodec.BufferInfo Per buffer metadata includes an offset and size specifying the
range of valid data in the associated codec (output) buffer.
MediaCodec.Callback
MediaCodec callback interface. Used to notify the user asynchronously of various MediaCodec
events.
Location : /frameworks/av/media/libmedia/include/media/mediarecorder.h
Media Recorder class is to record audio/video streams form device and setting
various parameters.
Location: /frameworks/av/media/libmedia/mediarecorder.cpp
setCamera Checks media recorder state (initialized) and set camera for recording.
Eg: mMediaRecorder->setCamera(camera, proxy)
setPreviewSurface try to set preview surface with setting the video source.
setVideoSource set video source i.e (mMediaRecorder->setVideoSource(vs).
setAudioSource initialize media recorder and sets audio source.
setOutputFormat output format for audio recording is set.
setVideoEncoder video encoding format to the source is assigned here.
At the native level, Android provides a multimedia framework that utilizes the Stagefright engine for
audio and video recording and playback. Stage fright comes with a default list of supported software
codecs.
I) MediaPlayerService
class is defined in MediaPlayerService.h and definitions are implemented in MediaPlayerService.cpp.
PATH: /frameworks/av/media/libmediaplayerservice/MediaPlayerService.h
PATH: /frameworks/av/media/libmediaplayerservice/MediaPlayerService.cpp
MediaPlayerService::MediaPlayerService
MediaPlayerService::removeMediaRecorderClient
MediaPlayerService::removeClient
Video Formats: H.263, H.264 AVC(BP,MP), H.265 HEVC ,MPEG-4 SP,VP8, VP9, AV1
File Formats: 3GPP (.3gp), MPEG-4 (.mp4), Matroska (.mkv) ,MPEG-TS (.ts), WebM (.webm)
For video Encoding, Decoding, Playback & Streaming speed and resolution are recommended based on
the certain parameters.
e.g.: (SD- Low/High) quality Format (H.264) -> (176 x 144 px @ 12 fps ) (480 x 360 px @ 30 fps) are
recommended respectively.
>> Similarly, for images also Android framework recommends some formats.
Stage fright is a native media playback tool used by Android and all these weaknesses reside in it.
Extractor: extract data into required format and set communication between native media
server to kernel driver.
Player: captures video and provide sources like playing, starting, etc.
Codex: prepare playback and setup decoder on request from media service to kernel driver.
PATH: /frameworks/av/media/libstagefright/
4) OMX INTEGRATION
The OpenMAX IL provides a standardized way for Stagefright to recognize and use custom hardware-
based multimedia codecs. Its acts as an interface between the Stagefright Engine and the codec.
Path-framerwork/av/media/libmedia/IOMX.cpp
Class-BpOMX
Path-framerwork/av/media/libstagefright/omx/omxgraphicbuffersource.cpp
Class-OmxComponentWrapper
Path-framerwork/av/media/libstagefright/omx/OMXmaster.cpp
OMXmaster.cpp Used for:-
1)addPlugin
2)clearPlugins
3)makeComponentInstance
4)destroyComponentInstance
5)enumerateComponents
6)getRolesOfComponent
OMXutils:
Path-framerwork/av/media/libstagefright/omx/OMXutils.cpp
Used for:-
1.DescribeColorFormatParams
2.DescribeDefaultColorFormat
3.GetComponentRole
PATH: /frameworks/support/media/src/main/java/androidx/media/
E.g.:
MediaInterface2.java
MediaPlayer2.java
MediaPlayerInterface.java
E.g.:
AudioTrackTest.java
DecoderTest.java
DecoderTestAacDrc.java
DecoderTestXheAac.java
EncodeDecodeTest.java
VideoDecoderPerfTest.java
VideoEditorTest.java
VideoEncoderTest.java
Note: Most of these files are licensed as APACHE LICENSE, VERSION 2.0
https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
Author’s:
Shweta Udigiri
Akula Rama Krishna
Aman Kumar Das
Ravi Upadhay
Gesham M