Video Processing Tools

FFmpeg

FFmpeg is a complete, cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video. It includes libavcodec - the leading audio/video codec library

FFprobe SVN r92

• Check out the code

svn co https://ffprobe.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/ffprobe/trunk/ 

• build and install FFprobe

make
sudo make install

• use FFprobe to get information about the streams. The command below will show the frame type and its order in the stream

ffprobe -show_frames -pretty /home/rch3/Videos/BG_11369.mpg  |  grep 'pict_type\|coded_picture_number'

I-Frame Extractor

• You will need these FFmpeg static libraries:
  • libavformat.a
  • libavdevice.a
  • libavcodec.a
  • libswscale.a
  • libavutil.a

• Here is the source code: I-FrameExtractor.c

• Compile:

gcc -o extractor I-FrameExtractor.c   path_to_library_folder/libavformat.a path_to_library_folder/libavdevice.a path_to_library_folder/libavcodec.a path_to_library_folder/libswscale.a path_to_library_folder/libavutil.a -lm -lpthread -lfaac -lz -lmp3lame -lopencore-amrnb -lopencore-amrwb -lvorbis -lvpx -lx264 -ltheoradec -ltheoraenc -lvorbisenc -lxvidcore -lbz2 -lasound -ljack -lgdk-x11-2.0 -w