This library is designed to simplify ffmpeg for use in media player applications written in pure C. It is thread safe, very fast, and has a pluggable architecture for output renderers for both audio and video streams.

This library does NOT remote control mplayer, or other engines, it is stand alone with libavcodec and libavformat making it very easy to tightly implement a media player into your application.

Usage is very simple:

mp_t *mp;
mp = mp_new();
mp_load(mp, "filename.avi");
if (mp_num_streams(mp, CODEC_TYPE_AUDIO) > 0) mp_setup_stream(mp, 0, PLAYER_AUDIO_ALSA, NULL);
if (mp_num_streams(mp, CODEC_TYPE_VIDEO) > 0) mp_setup_stream(mp, 0, PLAYER_VIDEO_XV , NULL);
mp_open(mp);
mp_play(mp);
mp_wait(mp);
mp_close(mp);
mp_free(mp);Currently four renderers are supported, ALSA, XV, DirectFB and OpenGL via GTK+, though it is not hard to implement your own renderer.

Renderers are very simple to implement, for audio all you have to do is define the functions: new, free, open, close, getdelay, write, pause, resume and call the macro: DEFINE_AUDIO_RENDERER(PLAYER_AUDIO_FOOBAR, new, free, open, close, getdelay, write, pause, resume)

It is very similar for Video.

Example console output

I: Found card: HDA NVidia
I: Opened codec "mp2" for stream 1
I: Using renderer "PLAYER_AUDIO_ALSA" for stream 1
I: Found 24bit TrueColor
I: Opened codec "mpeg2video" for stream 0
I: Using renderer "PLAYER_VIDEO_XV" for stream 0
I: Waiting for streams to be primed
I: Waiting for stream 0 to become ready
I: Aspect Ratio: 1.333333
I: Frame Size: 720x480
I: Display Size: 640x480
I: Telling the renderer to initialize it's buffers
W: Hardware can not pause
I: Opened audio device (rate = 48000, channels = 2)
I: Signal stream 1 primed
I: Signal stream 0 primed
I: Stream 0 is primed
I: Syncing clock to audio stream 1
I: Waiting for stream 1 to become ready
I: Stream 1 is primed
I: All streams primed and ready to go
I: Stream 0 started
I: Stream 1 started
I: Finished demuxing
I: Waiting for the video queue to be emptied
I: Telling the renderer to free it's buffers
I: Demuxer finished
I: Joining stream 0
I: Joining stream 1