ffmpeg_encoders: Get a data frame of all installed encoders

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

Get a data frame of all installed encoders

Description

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

Usage

ffmpeg_encoders(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 encoder
details	A character vector including details about each encoder
type	A factor vector indicating whether each encoder supports "Video", "Audio" or "Subtitles"
frame_mt	A logical vector indicating whether each encoder supports frame-level multithreading
slice_mt	A logical vector indicating whether each encoder supports slice-level multithreading
experimental	A logical vector indicating whether each encoder is experimental
horiz_band	A logical vector indicating whether each encoder supports draw_horiz_band
direct_render	A logical vector indicating whether each encoders supports direct rending method 1

See Also

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

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

Examples

head(ffmpeg_encoders())
ffmpeg_encoders(sort_by_type = FALSE)

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