How to use hardware accelerated video decoding on Android?
I need hardware-accelerated H.264 decoding for a research project, to test a self-defined protocol. As I have Search on the web, I have found a few ways to perform hardware-accelerated video decoding on Android. Use ffmpeg libstagefright ( overview of libstagefright ) or use libstagefright in the OS directly, like here . Use OpenMax on specific hardware platform. like here about samsung device and here about Qualcomm Snapdragon series Some people mentioned PVplayer , Some people "say" libstagefright is the only way while Qualcomm guys have made success obviously. Currently I am not sure which