[FFmpeg-user] Play from a FileDescriptor

[Tom Evans]

On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 12:05 PM, Fabian Schuetz
<fabian.m.schuetz at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am using https://github.com/appunite/AndroidFFmpeg in an Android-Project
> and was looking to add a way to the library to play from a Java FileDescriptor.
>
> It is possible to get a low-level fd from a Java FileDescriptor.
> And I know that ffmpeg supports the 'pipe' protocol, to play from stdin, f.e.
>
> So I think it should not be too much effort to write some jni-code that allows playing
> from a FileDescriptor. However I cannot find the write function to start from in ffmpeg.
>
> Any leads would be great.
>
> Thanks,
> Fabian

Why would you need to change anything in ffmpeg?

Simply pass the fd as stdin when you spawn the ffmpeg process - and
how you do that depends on your programming language of choice, not
ffmpeg.

"Java pass file descriptor as stdin" should get you going.

Cheers

Tom