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ffmpeg for AROS 64 Bit

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AMIGASYSTEMAMIGASYSTEMDistro Maintainer
Posted 2 days ago
#20

retrofaza wrote:

@retrofaza

I added a simple grabber to FFmpeg. It's not exactly a speed demon. I'm not sure if it'll be useful for any practical applications. You can test it out:

ffmpeg -f arosgrab -framerate 10 -i screen -t 10 -c:v libx264 -preset ultrafast -pix_fmt yuv420p output.mp4


https://drive.google.com/file/d/10d9FtHGP3A3oSOoWdBuM-bghaXbNv4L2/view?usp=sharing

Thanks, let's see if ScreenRecorde can use it; if not, we'll figure something out!
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retrofazaDistro Maintainer
Posted 2 days ago
#19
@AMIGASYSTEM

I added a simple grabber to FFmpeg. It's not exactly a speed demon. I'm not sure if it'll be useful for any practical applications. You can test it out:

ffmpeg -f arosgrab -framerate 10 -i screen -t 10 -c:v libx264 -preset ultrafast -pix_fmt yuv420p output.mp4


https://drive.google.com/file/d/10d9FtHGP3A3oSOoWdBuM-bghaXbNv4L2/view?usp=sharing
Edited by retrofaza on 07-07-2026 08:46, 2 days ago
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miker1264Software Dev
Posted 1 month ago
#18
WinFF is a project for another day. :-)

But I'm interested in trying FFPlay and FFMpeg.
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Amiwell79Distro Maintainer
Posted 1 month ago
#17
Miker1264 You can make a GUI in Hollywood
AMIGASYSTEMAMIGASYSTEMDistro Maintainer
Posted 1 month ago
#16
It could be called FFMedia or AROS FFMedia, AROS Multimedia
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miker1264Software Dev
Posted 1 month ago
#15
There is a GUI Frontend for FFMpeg called WinFF. I wonder how difficult it would be to port something like that to AROS and convert to MUI ?

It seems that a variant of WinFF was ported to Ubuntu using GTK+ so maybe using the GTK-MUI wrapper.

What do we call it ? ArosFF ?
Edited by miker1264 on 26-05-2026 18:30, 1 month ago
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ntromansSenior Member
Posted 1 month ago
#14

ntromans wrote:

@ntromans - Mnay thanks fo rthe new verion.

If it's still being worked on, is there any chance to add the -cache option into ffplay? I'm finding on my i5 playback is a bit jerky for dvd files.

Many thanks,
Nigel.


Retrofaza, again many thanks for porting this really useful software to 64 bit .

Cheers,
Nigel.
Edited by ntromans on 26-05-2026 18:04, 1 month ago
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ntromansSenior Member
Posted 1 month ago
#13

miker1264 wrote:

@miker1264 - Does ffplay support all the formats in the test directory?

Also, does ffplay have a conversion function to convert between formats such as wav to mp3, m4a to mp3, etc?

AMIGASYSTEM,
I borrowed your screenshot.


You can convert formats using ffmpeg, eg.

ffmpeg -i filenameee.m4a -acodec libmp3lame -ab 256k output.mp3

Cheers,
Nigel.
AMIGASYSTEMAMIGASYSTEMDistro Maintainer
Posted 1 month ago
#12

miker1264 wrote:

@miker1264 - Does ffplay support all the formats in the test directory?



FFPlay supports a huge range of Video, Audio and Image formats:

Video: MP4, MKV, AVI, MOV, FLV, WebM, H.264, H.265 (HEVC), AV1, VP8, VP9, V,OB 3GP, FLC, WMV, XL, CDXL !

Audio: MP3, AAC, FLAC, WAV, Ogg Vorbis, ALAC, WMA, AC-3,AMR, WAV, MP3, AIFF, RA, 8SVX

Immage: JPEG, PNG, GIF Anim, GIF, ANIM, TIFF, WebP, BMP, ILBM, PCX, TGA, TIF, XBM, XPM

There are probably others too...
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miker1264Software Dev
Posted 1 month ago
#11
Does ffplay support all the formats in the test directory?

Also, does ffplay have a conversion function to convert between formats such as wav to mp3, m4a to mp3, etc?

AMIGASYSTEM,
I borrowed your screenshot.
Edited by miker1264 on 26-05-2026 09:11, 1 month ago
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AMIGASYSTEMAMIGASYSTEMDistro Maintainer
Posted 1 month ago
#10
OK, there are no crashes now, so you can close the window. Thank you.
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retrofazaDistro Maintainer
Posted 1 month ago
#9
I think this is the last update:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CC9IKkTWD3zG3pqxgItMxLnHfkpf8y2K/view?usp=sharing

Added a workaround in SDL2 that prevents a crash when dragging and dropping onto the ffplay window.
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AMIGASYSTEMAMIGASYSTEMDistro Maintainer
Posted 1 month ago
#8
That’s fine, just having FFPlay working on AROS 64-bit is a huge achievement; thank you for making it happen
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retrofazaDistro Maintainer
Posted 1 month ago
#7
I probably won't be adding any new features to ffplay. Let it remain the simple tool it was meant to be Smile

As for the crash during the drop, that's a lower-level issue (probably in SDL). I'll try to look into it.
AMIGASYSTEMAMIGASYSTEMDistro Maintainer
Posted 1 month ago
#6
Great work! we now have two options: FFPlayer is ideal for Dopus4 and Dopus5, allowing you to watch videos and listen to music all within the same window size.

In future, it would be handy to have some buttons to stop the music, pause it, and fast-forward and rewind (if supported).

I tried dragging a media file onto an open FFPlayer window and noticed that it opens a second window but then playback freezes.
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retrofazaDistro Maintainer
Posted 1 month ago
#5
Another version.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/13UhbdcW1hQ7txKuOpj-Z_7c9-b2y68An/view?usp=sharing

You can now also specify arguments in the tooltype section.
For example, if you enter the following in the tooltype section:
-x 300
-y 100
-window_title "My Player"

The file will open in a window measuring 300x100, with the title "My Player"
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AMIGASYSTEMAMIGASYSTEMDistro Maintainer
Posted 2 months ago
#4
Perfect, retrofaza. I’ve created two scripts, “PlaySound” and “PlayVideo”, which use FFPlay with window resolutions tailored to my preferences. Now, on AROS 64-bit, all the most common multimedia formats will be supported by both Wanderer and Dopus4 and Dopus5. Thanks again.

I tried setting the resolutions via the Icona Tooltypes, but it seems that isn’t supported!
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ntromansSenior Member
Posted 2 months ago
#3
Mnay thanks fo rthe new verion.

If it's still being worked on, is there any chance to add the -cache option into ffplay? I'm finding on my i5 playback is a bit jerky for dvd files.

Many thanks,
Nigel.
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MagicSNJunior Member
Posted 2 months ago
#2

AMIGASYSTEM wrote:

@AMIGASYSTEM - miker, sorry, I made a ty, i meant to say ‘MPlayer’, which crashes with certain media formats. Unfortunately, old age plays tricks on you like that. I’ve corrected the post!


Yeah the .smk videos in Dungeonkeeper were some of these examples (the converted version seemed fine, but I did not try the conversion with the AROS version).
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retrofazaDistro Maintainer
Posted 2 months ago
#1
New version

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vf3x9aoVK_e17r9LMpDkVmIcgPUSVAv5/view?usp=sharing

I changed the default visualization for music (now “waves” by default, and the spectrum when "w"Wink

I changed how the window behaves with large videos.

You can also specify the window size manually in the command line:
ffplay song.mp3 -x 300 -y 100

I'll get back to FFmpeg after the weekend. In the meantime, feel free to test out the rest of the options, and if you find any bugs or have ideas for improvements, we'll keep working on it.
amigamia, Amiwell79
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