MiniVideo framework

MiniVideo is a multimedia framework developed from scratch in C/C++, bundled with small testing programs and a neat media analyser.
MiniVideo has been tested with several CPU architectures (x86, SH4, MIPS, ARM).
The project uses a CMake build system. Both library and test programs can be installed into your system.

MiniVideo has been initially developed in 2010/2011 during an internship I did in a French company called httv, as a small video decoding library developed from scratch in C. Its goal was to generate video thumbnails, with a source code easy to read and to understand for learning purpose. After a clean-up pass, the code has been published early 2014 with httv permission under the LGPL v3 license (video framework) and GPLv3 (test softwares).

The minivideo library can:

• Open video files with various container to demux and remux audio/video content.
• Open H.264 compressed streams and decode & export intra-coded pictures.
• Extract various metadata from container and elementary streams.
• Map exact container structure to XML file / GUI.

MiniVideo library features

Supported container formats (import modules)

• AVI [.avi]
• WAVE [.wav]
• ASF [.asf, .wma, .wmv]
• MKV [.mkv, .webm, ...]
• MP4 / MOV (ISOM container) [.mp4, .mov, .3gp, ...]
• MPEG-PS (MPEG "Program Stream") [.mpg, .mpeg, .vob, ...]
• MPEG-1/2 "elementary stream" [.mpg, .mpeg]
• H.264 / H.265 / H.266 "elementary stream" ("Annex B" format) [.264, .265, .266]
• MP3 "elementary stream" [.mp3]

Supported container formats (export modules)

• Elementary Streams

Supported video codec (decoding)

• H.264 / MPEG-4 part 10 "Advance Video Coding"
  • I frames only...
  • A few bugs inside the CABAC decoding process are still being worked on...

Supported picture formats (decoding output modules)

• jpeg (internal OR when libjpeg support is available)
• png (internal OR when libpng support is available)
• webp (when libwebp support is available)
• bmp
• tiff
• tga

MiniVideo library

Check out minivideo documentation!

MiniVideo framework included softwares

mini_analyser is a GUI software designed to help you extract a maximum of informations and metadata from multimedia files.
It can also map container's internal structure and let you visualize it.

mini_extractor is an elementary stream extractor software.

mini_thumbnailer is a thumbnail picture extraction software.