Android video trimming via ffmpeg

Question

I have downloaded video trimming code from github from this link.

It’s working perfectly for the first time, but when I try to run it for the second time the code cr

Answer 1

https://lists.ffmpeg.org/pipermail/libav-user/2012-May/001964.html

Calling native method twice of third party library in an Activity causes the Android application to close down

read about the issue with static vars in 'ffmpeg.c' ...

I would bet that u have the same problem and need to do something (3 alternate choices) to reset or GC those vars:

1. get the java classloader that loaded the lib and GC it

2. in the c-layer do what the OP did in above link

3. write a 2nd shared lib that uses 'dlsym' and 'dlclose' on the first library during each call cycle

github , see the 'README' here

same issue that u r having