Android FFmpeg Builder

🎬 Automated FFmpeg shared library and binary builder for Android. This script builds FFmpeg with full codec support and hardware acceleration for multiple Android architectures.

🚀 Features

• FFmpeg 7.1 with full codec and format support
• Supported architectures:
  • arm64-v8a
  • armeabi-v7a
  • x86_64
• Hardware acceleration enabled
• MediaCodec support
• NEON optimization
• Network capabilities
• All encoders and decoders
• All muxers and demuxers
• All protocols enabled
• ffmpeg and ffprobe binaries included

📋 Prerequisites

Required Tools

• Android NDK
• Build essentials (gcc, make)
• YASM/NASM assembler
• wget
• pkg-config

On Ubuntu/Debian:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y \
    build-essential \
    gcc \
    make \
    yasm \
    nasm \
    pkg-config \
    wget

On macOS:

brew install automake yasm nasm pkg-config wget

Android NDK Setup

1. Download Android NDK from Android's NDK page
2. Extract it to a location (default: /opt/android-ndk)
3. Update the ANDROID_NDK_HOME variable in the script if your NDK is installed elsewhere
4. Ensure NDK toolchain is accessible

🛠️ Usage

1. Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/husen-hn/android-ffmpeg-builder.git
cd android-ffmpeg-builder

2. Make the script executable:

chmod +x build_ffmpeg.sh

3. Run the script:

./build_ffmpeg.sh

📚 Output Structure

android/project_output/
├── arm64-v8a/
│   ├── bin/
│   │   ├── ffmpeg
│   │   └── ffprobe
│   └── lib/
│       ├── libavcodec.so
│       ├── libavdevice.so
│       ├── libavfilter.so
│       ├── libavformat.so
│       ├── libavutil.so
│       ├── libpostproc.so
│       ├── libswresample.so
│       └── libswscale.so
├── armeabi-v7a/
├── x86_64/
└── build_info.txt

🔧 Configurations

The script builds FFmpeg with these features:

• Shared libraries enabled
• Hardware acceleration
• MediaCodec support
• NEON optimization
• Network support
• All codecs and formats
• Debug symbols stripped
• Size-optimized binaries

📦 Releases & Pre-built Binaries

Latest Release

Pre-built binaries are available in the Releases section. Each release includes:

• Built .so files for all supported architectures (arm64-v8a, armeabi-v7a, x86_64)
• ffmpeg and ffprobe binaries
• Build information and checksums
• Source code archive

🔄 Updating FFmpeg Version

1. Update the version in build_ffmpeg.sh:

# Change this line
FFMPEG_VERSION="7.1"

2. Download the new FFmpeg source:

wget https://ffmpeg.org/releases/ffmpeg-${FFMPEG_VERSION}.tar.bz2

3. Clean old build files:

rm -rf ffmpeg-*
rm -rf android/project_output/*

4. Run the build script:

./build_ffmpeg.sh

📜 License

This project is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public Version 3 License - see the LICENSE file for details.