[FFmpeg-devel] APV codec with OpenAPV support

[Kieran Kunhya]

On Tue, 22 Apr 2025, 09:44 , <d.frankiewic at samsung.com> wrote:

> Hi,
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> I'm Dariusz from Samsung Electronics, you can know me from last VDD in
> Korea, I was presenting APV.
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> I'm glad that Mark created native APV decoder. As you might know we're also
> working on APV implementation for FFmpeg.
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> Our approach is different from yours but they can exist in FFmpeg in
> parallel. We're using external library OpenAPV for encoding and decoding:
> https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/openapv
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> This OpenAPV implementation will be also used by Google in next Android 16:
> https://developer.android.com/about/versions/16/features#apv
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> In our approach we have implemented: encoding, decoding and mp4 muxing.
> Today we will send patches.
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> So I think now it's a good moment to review both implementations and
> integrate them in parallel in FFmpeg.
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> What's your opinion about that?
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> Regards,
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> Dariusz
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Hi Dariusz,

The general "policy" is that external libraries are not used if we already
have a native implementation. Unless that native library has capabilities
(e.g encoding in this case) that we don't have.

Regards,
Kieran Kunhya

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