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1# Cros-codecs
2
3[<img alt="crates.io" src="https://img.shields.io/crates/v/cros-codecs">](https://crates.io/crates/cros-codecs)
4[<img alt="docs.rs" src="https://img.shields.io/docsrs/cros-codecs">](https://docs.rs/cros-codecs/latest/cros_codecs/)
5
6A lightweight, simple, low-dependency, and hopefully safe crate for
7hardware-accelerated video decoding and encoding on Linux.
8
9It is developed for use in ChromeOS (particularly
10[crosvm](https://github.com/google/crosvm)), but has no dependency to ChromeOS
11and should be usable anywhere.
12
13## Current features
14
15- Simple decoder API,
16- VAAPI decoder support (using
17  [cros-libva](https://github.com/chromeos/cros-libva)) for H.264, H.265, VP8,
18  VP9 and AV1,
19- VAAPI encoder support for H.264, VP9 and AV1,
20- Stateful V4L2 encoder support.
21
22## Planned features
23
24- Stateful V4L2 decoder support,
25- Stateless V4L2 decoder support,
26- Support for more encoder codecs,
27- C API to be used in non-Rust projects.
28
29## Non-goals
30
31- Support for systems other than Linux.
32
33## Example programs
34
35The `ccdec` example program can decode an encoded stream and write the decoded
36frames to a file. As such it can be used for testing purposes.
37
38```shell
39$ cargo build --examples
40$ ./target/debug/examples/ccdec --help
41Usage: ccdec <input> [--output <output>] --input-format <input-format> [--output-format <output-format>] [--compute-md5 <compute-md5>]
42
43Simple player using cros-codecs
44
45Positional Arguments:
46  input             input file
47
48Options:
49  --output          output file to write the decoded frames to
50  --input-format    input format to decode from.
51  --output-format   pixel format to decode into. Default: i420
52  --compute-md5     whether to display the MD5 of the decoded stream, and at
53                    which granularity (stream or frame)
54  --help            display usage information
55```
56
57## Testing
58
59Fluster can be used for testing, using the `ccdec` example program described
60above. [This branch](https://github.com/Gnurou/fluster/tree/cros-codecs)
61contains support for cros-codecs testing. Just make sure the `ccdec` binary is
62in your `PATH`, and run Fluster using one of the `ccdec` decoders, e.g.
63
64```shell
65python fluster.py run -d ccdec-H.264 -ts JVT-AVC_V1
66```
67
68## Credits
69
70The majority of the code in the initial commit has been written by Daniel
71Almeida as a VAAPI backend for crosvm, before being split into this crate.
72