A simplest video player based on FFmpeg.
The software is based on VC 2010. It is suitable for beginner of FFmpeg.
It only uses about 100 lines of code.
Eacn line of source code is important. New developer of FFmpeg can learn FFmpeg's API through this software.

Solutions contains 6 Project:
simplest_ffmpeg_player: Standard Version, suitable for biginner.
simplest_ffmpeg_player_su: SU(SDL Update)Version, Add SDL Event.
simplest_ffmpeg_decoder_pure: A pure decoder. Only use libavcodec (Without libavformat).
simplest_ffmpeg_decoder: A decoder that can demux container format. Uses libavcodec and libavformat.
simplest_video_play_sdl2: Example about using SDL2 play YUV data.
simplest_ffmpeg_helloworld: Output informations about FFmpeg libraries.

Features

  • VC2010
  • SDL
  • FFmpeg
  • New version support HEVC and VP9
  • Two versions : version 1.1 uses SDL 1.2; version 2 uses SDL 2.0
  • Two edition: Standard Edition is the simplest player; SU Edtion uses SDL Event
  • v 1.2/2.2 : Add "flush_decoder" function
  • v 2.3 : Add "simplest_ffmpeg_decoder_pure" project
  • v 1 final : Add Support of Linux / MacOS platform
  • v 2.4 : Add Support of Linux / MacOS platform
  • v 2.5 : Add another 3 project

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