Stagefright also supports integration of custom hardware codec provided by device vendor. Stagefright audio and video playback features include integration with OpenMAX codecs, session management, time-synchronized rendering, transport control and DRM (known as Digital Restrictions Management or Digital Rights Management). Mediacodec in AndroidĪndroid includes Stagefright, a media playback engine at the native level that has built-in software-based codecs for popular media formats. Following are the few different types of video codec : H.264 Encoder and Decoder, MPEG Encoder and Decoder, MJPEG Encoder and Decoder. Codecs are widely used in applications such as video conferencing, streaming media, and video editing applications. A codec that encodes a data stream or a signal for transmission and storage, possibly in encrypted form is called encoder, and the decoder function reverses the encoding for playback or editing. What is a codec?Ī codec is hardware device or a computer program which process input data into output data. This article explains about media architecture in Android platform and thereby explains the steps to add your own vendor specific hardware encoder/decoder to the Android framework as OpenMAX components.
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