ffmpeg_codecs: Get a data frame of all installed codecs

In tidymedia: Media File Preprocessing and Metadata for the 'tidyverse'

Get a data frame of all installed codecs

Description

Ask FFmpeg for its list of installed codecs, and return the list as a data frame with information about each codec. The glossary in vignette("tidymedia") explains media terms such as codec and encoder.

Usage

ffmpeg_codecs(sort_by_type = TRUE)

Arguments

sort_by_type

A logical. TRUE sorts the tibble by type and then by name. FALSE sorts it by name only. (default = TRUE)

Value

A tibble with the following variables:

name	A character vector including the name/code of each codec
details	A character vector including details about each codec
type	A factor vector indicating whether each codec supports "Video", "Audio" or "Subtitles"
decoding	A logical vector indicating whether each codec supports decoding
encoding	A logical vector indicating whether each codec supports encoding
intraframe	A logical vector indicating whether each codec is an intra-frame-only codec
lossy	A logical vector indicating whether each codec supports lossy compression
lossless	A logical vector indicating whether each codec supports lossless compression

See Also

ffmpeg_encoders() for the encoder list, ffm_codec() to set a codec in a pipeline, and ffmpeg() for the direct command.

Other capability functions: ffmpeg_encoders(), hardware_encoder(), has_encoder(), refresh_ffmpeg_capabilities()

Examples

head(ffmpeg_codecs())
ffmpeg_codecs(sort_by_type = FALSE)

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