Jaffree

Jaffree stands for [Ja]va [ff]mpeg and [ff]probe [free] command line wrapper. Jaffree supports programmatic video production and consumption (with transparency)

It integrates with ffmpeg via java.lang.Process.

Inspired by ffmpeg-cli-wrapper

Tested with the help of GitHub Actions

OS: Ubuntu, MacOS, Windows

JDK: 7, 8, 11, 14

Usage

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.github.kokorin.jaffree</groupId>
    <artifactId>jaffree</artifactId>
    <version>0.9.6</version>
</dependency>

<!--
    You should also include slf4j into dependencies.
    This is done intentionally to allow changing of slf4j version.
  -->
<dependency>
    <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
    <artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId>
    <version>1.7.25</version>
</dependency>

Examples

Checking media streams with ffprobe

See whole example here.

//path to ffmpeg directory or null (to use PATH env variable)
Path BIN = Paths.get("/path/to/ffmpeg_directory/");
Path VIDEO_MP4 = Paths.get("/path/to/video.mp4");


FFprobe ffprobe;
if (BIN != null) {
    ffprobe = FFprobe.atPath(BIN);
} else {
    ffprobe = FFprobe.atPath();
}

FFprobeResult result = ffprobe
        .setShowStreams(true)
        .setInput(VIDEO_MP4)
        .execute();

for (Stream stream : result.getStreams()) {
    System.out.println("Stream " + stream.getIndex() 
            + " type " + stream.getCodecType()
            + " duration " + stream.getDuration(TimeUnit.SECONDS));
}

FFmpeg ffmpeg;
if (BIN != null) {
    ffmpeg = FFmpeg.atPath(BIN);
} else {
    ffmpeg = FFmpeg.atPath();
}

//Sometimes ffprobe can't show exact duration, use ffmpeg trancoding to NULL output to get it
final AtomicLong durationMillis = new AtomicLong();
FFmpegResult fFmpegResult = ffmpeg
        .addInput(
                UrlInput.fromUrl(VIDEO_MP4)
        )
        .addOutput(new NullOutput())
        .setProgressListener(new ProgressListener() {
            @Override
            public void onProgress(FFmpegProgress progress) {
                durationMillis.set(progress.getTimeMillis());
            }
        })
        .execute();

System.out.println("Exact duration: " + durationMillis.get() + " milliseconds");

Re-encode and track progress

See whole example here.

Path BIN = Paths.get("/path/to/ffmpeg_directory/");
Path VIDEO_MP4 = Paths.get("/path/to/video.mp4");
Path OUTPUT_MP4 = Paths.get("/path/to/output.mp4");

ProgressListener listener = new ProgressListener() {
    @Override
    public void onProgress(FFmpegProgress progress) {
        //TODO handle progress data
    }
};


FFmpegResult result = FFmpeg.atPath(BIN)
        .addInput(UrlInput.fromPath(VIDEO_MP4))
        .addOutput(UrlOutput.toPath(outputPath)
                .copyAllCodecs()
        )
        // This is optional
        .setProgressListener(listener)
        .execute();

Custom parsing of ffmpeg output

FFmpegResult result = FFmpeg.atPath(BIN)
        .addInput(UrlInput.fromPath(VIDEO_MP4))
        .addArguments("-af", "loudnorm=I=-16:TP=-1.5:LRA=11:print_format=json")
        .addOutput(new NullOutput(false))
        .setOutputListener(new OutputListener() {
            private boolean loudnormReportStarted;
            @Override
            public boolean onOutput(String line) {
                if (line.contains("loudnornm")) {
                    loudnormReportStarted = true;
                    return true;
                }
                if (loudnormReportStarted) {
                    // TODO parse loudnorm JSON report
                }
                return loudnormReportStarted;
            }
        })
        .execute();

Supplying and consuming data with SeekableByteChannel

Under the hood Jaffree uses tiny FTP server to interact with SeekableByteChannel

FFprobeResult probe;
FFmpegResult result;

try (SeekableByteChannel channel = Files.newByteChannel(VIDEO_MP4, READ)) {
    probe = FFprobe.atPath(BIN)
            .setShowStreams(true)
            .setInput(channel)
            .execute();
}

try (SeekableByteChannel channel = Files.newByteChannel(VIDEO_MP4, READ)) {
    FFmpegResult result = FFmpeg.atPath(BIN)
            .addInput(
                    ChannelInput.fromChannel(VIDEO_MP4.getFileName().toString(), channel)
            )
            .addOutput(
                    UrlOutput.toPath(outputPath)
            )
            .execute();
}

try (SeekableByteChannel channel = Files.newByteChannel(outputPath, CREATE, WRITE, READ, TRUNCATE_EXISTING)) {
    FFmpegResult result = FFmpeg.atPath(BIN)
            .addInput(
                    UrlInput.fromPath(VIDEO_MP4)
            )
            .addOutput(
                    ChannelOutput.toChannel("channel.mp4", channel)
            )
            .execute();
}

Supplying and consuming data with InputStream and OutputStream

Notice It's recommended to use ChannelInput & ChannelOutput since ffmpeg leverage seeking in input and requires seekable output for many formats.

Under the hood pipes are not OS pipes, but TCP Sockets. This allows much higher bandwidth.

FFprobeResult probe;
FFmpegResult result;

try (InputStream inputStream = Files.newInputStream(VIDEO_MP4)) {
    probe = FFprobe.atPath(BIN)
            .setShowStreams(true)
            .setInput(inputStream)
            .execute();
}


try (InputStream inputStream = Files.newInputStream(VIDEO_MP4)) {
    result = FFmpeg.atPath(BIN)
            .addInput(PipeInput.pumpFrom(inputStream))
            .addOutput(UrlOutput.toPath(outputPath))
            .execute();
}

try (OutputStream outputStream = Files.newOutputStream(outputPath, StandardOpenOption.CREATE)) {
    result = FFmpeg.atPath(BIN)
            .addInput(UrlInput.fromPath(VIDEO_MP4))
            .addOutput(PipeOutput.pumpTo(outputStream).setFormat("flv"))
            .setOverwriteOutput(true)
            .execute();
}

FFmpeg stop

See whole examples here.

Grace stop

Start ffmpeg with FFmpeg#executeAsync and stop it with FFmpegResultFuture#graceStop (ffmpeg only). This will pass q symbol to ffmpeg's stdin.

Note output media finalization may take some time - up to several seconds.

FFmpegResultFuture future = ffmpeg.executeAsync();

Thread.sleep(5_000);
future.graceStop();

Force stop

There are 3 ways to stop ffmpeg forcefully.

Note: ffmpeg may not (depending on output format) correctly finalize output. It's very likely that produced media will be corrupted with force stop.

• Throw an exception in ProgressListener (ffmpeg only)

final AtomicBoolean stopped = new AtomicBoolean();
ffmpeg.setProgressListener(
        new ProgressListener() {
            @Override
            public void onProgress(FFmpegProgress progress) {
                if (stopped.get()) {
                    throw new RuntimeException("Stooped with exception!");
                }
            }
        }
);

• Start ffmpeg with FFmpeg#executeAsync and stop it with FFmpegResultFuture#forceStop (ffmpeg only)

FFmpegResultFuture future = ffmpeg.executeAsync();

Thread.sleep(5_000);
future.forceStop();

• Start ffmpeg with FFmpeg#execute (or ffprobe with FFprobe#execute) and interrupt thread

Thread thread = new Thread() {
    @Override
    public void run() {
        ffmpeg.execute();
    }
};
thread.start();

Thread.sleep(5_000);
thread.interrupt();

Complex filtergraph (mosaic video)

More details about this example can be found on ffmpeg wiki: Create a mosaic out of several input videos

FFmpegResult result = FFmpeg.atPath(BIN)
        .addInput(UrlInput.fromPath(VIDEO1_MP4).setDuration(10, TimeUnit.SECONDS))
        .addInput(UrlInput.fromPath(VIDEO2_MP4).setDuration(10, TimeUnit.SECONDS))
        .addInput(UrlInput.fromPath(VIDEO3_MP4).setDuration(10, TimeUnit.SECONDS))
        .addInput(UrlInput.fromPath(VIDEO4_MP4).setDuration(10, TimeUnit.SECONDS))

        .setComplexFilter(FilterGraph.of(
                FilterChain.of(
                        Filter.withName("nullsrc")
                                .addArgument("size", "640x480")
                                .addOutputLink("base")
                ),
                FilterChain.of(
                        Filter.fromInputLink(StreamSpecifier.withInputIndexAndType(0, StreamType.ALL_VIDEO))
                                .setName("setpts")
                                .addArgument("PTS-STARTPTS"),
                        Filter.withName("scale")
                                .addArgument("320x240")
                                .addOutputLink("upperleft")
                ),
                FilterChain.of(
                        Filter.fromInputLink(StreamSpecifier.withInputIndexAndType(1, StreamType.ALL_VIDEO))
                                .setName("setpts")
                                .addArgument("PTS-STARTPTS"),
                        Filter.withName("scale")
                                .addArgument("320x240")
                                .addOutputLink("upperright")
                ),
                FilterChain.of(
                        Filter.fromInputLink(StreamSpecifier.withInputIndexAndType(2, StreamType.ALL_VIDEO))
                                .setName("setpts")
                                .addArgument("PTS-STARTPTS"),
                        Filter.withName("scale")
                                .addArgument("320x240")
                                .addOutputLink("lowerleft")
                ),
                FilterChain.of(
                        Filter.fromInputLink(StreamSpecifier.withInputIndexAndType(3, StreamType.ALL_VIDEO))
                                .setName("setpts")
                                .addArgument("PTS-STARTPTS"),
                        Filter.withName("scale")
                                .addArgument("320x240")
                                .addOutputLink("lowerright")
                ),
                FilterChain.of(
                        Filter.fromInputLink("base")
                                .addInputLink("upperleft")
                                .setName("overlay")
                                .addArgument("shortest", "1")
                                .addOutputLink("tmp1")
                ),
                FilterChain.of(
                        Filter.fromInputLink("tmp1")
                                .addInputLink("upperright")
                                .setName("overlay")
                                //.addArgument("shortest", "1")
                                .addArgument("x", "320")
                                .addOutputLink("tmp2")
                ),
                FilterChain.of(
                        Filter.fromInputLink("tmp2")
                                .addInputLink("lowerleft")
                                .setName("overlay")
                                //.addArgument("shortest", "1")
                                .addArgument("y", "240")
                                .addOutputLink("tmp3")
                ),
                FilterChain.of(
                        Filter.fromInputLink("tmp3")
                                .addInputLink("lowerright")
                                .setName("overlay")
                                //.addArgument("shortest", "1")
                                .addArgument("x", "320")
                                .addArgument("y", "240")
                )
        ))

        .addOutput(UrlOutput.toPath(outputPath))
        .execute();

Programmatic video

Producing video

Jaffree allows creation of video in pure java code.

See whole example here.

Path output = Paths.get("test.gif");

FrameProducer producer = new FrameProducer() {
    private long frameCounter = 0;

    @Override
    public List<Stream> produceStreams() {
        return Collections.singletonList(new Stream()
                .setType(Stream.Type.VIDEO)
                .setTimebase(1000L)
                .setWidth(320)
                .setHeight(240)
        );
    }

    @Override
    public Frame produce() {
        if (frameCounter > 30) {
            return null;
        }
        System.out.println("Creating frame " + frameCounter);

        BufferedImage image = new BufferedImage(320, 240, BufferedImage.TYPE_3BYTE_BGR);
        Graphics2D graphics = image.createGraphics();
        graphics.setPaint(new Color(frameCounter * 1.0f / 30, 0, 0));
        graphics.fillRect(0, 0, 320, 240);

        Frame videoFrame = new Frame()
                .setStreamId(0)
                .setPts(frameCounter * 1000 / 10)
                .setImage(image);
        frameCounter++;

        return videoFrame;
    }
};

FFmpegResult result = FFmpeg.atPath(BIN)
        .addInput(
                FrameInput.withProducer(producer)
        )
        .addOutput(
                UrlOutput.toPath(output)
        )
        .execute();

Here is an output of the above example:

Jaffree also allows producing of audio tracks, see BouncingBall example for more details.

Consuming video

Jaffree allows consumption of video in the similar manner.

See whole example here.

final Path tempDir = Files.createTempDirectory("jaffree");
System.out.println("Will write to " + tempDir);

final AtomicLong trackCounter = new AtomicLong();
final AtomicLong frameCounter = new AtomicLong();

FrameConsumer consumer = new FrameConsumer() {
    @Override
    public void consumeStreams(List<Stream> tracks) {
        trackCounter.set(tracks.size());
    }

    @Override
    public void consume(Frame frame) {
        if (frame == null) {
            return;
        }

        long n = frameCounter.incrementAndGet();
        String filename = String.format("frame%05d.png", n);
        try {
            ImageIO.write(frame.getImage(), "png", tempDir.resolve(filename).toFile());
        } catch (IOException e) {
            throw new RuntimeException(e);
        }
    }
};

FFmpegResult result = FFmpeg.atPath(BIN)
        .addInput(
                UrlInput.fromPath(VIDEO_MP4)
                        .setDuration(1, TimeUnit.SECONDS)
        )
        .addOutput(
                FrameOutput.withConsumer(consumer)
                        .extractVideo(true)
                        .extractAudio(false)
        )
        .execute();

Programmatic mosaic video creation

Jaffree allows simultaneous reading from several sources (with one instance per every source and target). You can find details in Mosaic example.