Android FFmpeg Prebuilt

https://github.com/hzw1199/Android-FFmpeg-Prebuilt

Prebuilt FFmpeg binaries for Android — ready to use, no compilation needed.

Provides ffmpeg / ffprobe executables and a single libffmpeg.so shared library with all core modules merged in.

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Features

• FFmpeg 8.0.1 — latest major release
• Android arm64-v8a (aarch64) — targeting modern 64-bit devices, minSdkVersion 28
• Single shared library — libffmpeg.so merges libavcodec, libavformat, libavfilter, libavutil, libavdevice, libswresample, libswscale, all 7 core libraries into one .so
• Standalone executables — ffmpeg and ffprobe can be pushed to device and run directly via shell
• C/C++ headers included — integrate into your Android NDK project
• Pure LGPL build — --disable-gpl --disable-nonfree, safe for commercial use
• MediaCodec hardware acceleration — H.264 / HEVC / MPEG-4 hardware decoding via Android MediaCodec
• 16 KB page size compatible — meets Google Play’s 16 KB page size requirement for apps targeting Android 15+
• Size-optimized — built with --enable-small -Os

File Structure

ffmpeg-8.0.1/
├── bin/
│   ├── ffmpeg           # CLI executable (15 MB)
│   └── ffprobe          # CLI executable (14 MB)
├── libffmpeg.so         # Merged shared library — all 7 modules in one .so (74 MB)
├── include/
│   ├── libavcodec/
│   ├── libavdevice/
│   ├── libavfilter/
│   ├── libavformat/
│   ├── libavutil/
│   ├── libswresample/
│   └── libswscale/
└── examples/            # Official FFmpeg example source code

Build Configuration

Encoders & Decoders

All LGPL-compatible encoders and decoders enabled, including MediaCodec hardware decoders:

MediaCodec Decoder	Description
h264_mediacodec	H.264 hardware decoding via Android MediaCodec
hevc_mediacodec	HEVC hardware decoding via Android MediaCodec
mpeg4_mediacodec	MPEG-4 hardware decoding via Android MediaCodec

Other Capabilities

Category	Status
Muxers / Demuxers	All enabled
Protocols	All enabled (network included)
Filters	All enabled
Parsers / BSFs	All enabled
Hardware Acceleration	MediaCodec + JNI enabled
iconv	Enabled

libffmpeg.so Included Libraries

libffmpeg.so is linked from all 7 static libraries:

Library	Description
libavdevice	Device capture & playback
libavfilter	Audio/video filter framework
libavcodec	Audio/video codec encoding & decoding
libavformat	Muxing & demuxing (container formats)
libswresample	Audio resampling & format conversion
libswscale	Video scaling & pixel format conversion
libavutil	Common utility functions

Quick Start

Use as CLI tool on device

adb push ffmpeg-8.0.1/bin/ffmpeg /data/local/tmp/
adb shell chmod +x /data/local/tmp/ffmpeg
adb shell /data/local/tmp/ffmpeg -version

Use libffmpeg.so in Android NDK project

CMakeLists.txt

add_library(ffmpeg SHARED IMPORTED)
set_target_properties(ffmpeg PROPERTIES
    IMPORTED_LOCATION ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/libs/${ANDROID_ABI}/libffmpeg.so
)
target_include_directories(your_target PRIVATE ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/ffmpeg-8.0.1/include)
target_link_libraries(your_target ffmpeg)

Build Information

Item	Value
FFmpeg Version	8.0.1
Target Platform	Android
Target ABI	arm64-v8a (aarch64)
minSdkVersion	28 (Android 9.0)
NDK Version	r28
Toolchain	LLVM / Clang
License Mode	LGPL-2.1 (no GPL, no non-free)
Build Type	Static libs → merged shared library + standalone executables
Size Optimization	--enable-small, -Os -fpic

License

This build is compiled with --disable-gpl --disable-nonfree, making it a pure LGPL-2.1 build. You may use it in proprietary / commercial applications as long as you comply with the LGPL-2.1 license terms.

This repository distributes prebuilt binaries of FFmpeg. The complete FFmpeg source code is available at:

• Official: https://ffmpeg.org/download.html
• Git: https://git.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.git
• GitHub mirror: https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg
• This build: tag n8.0.1

FFmpeg includes code from many contributors. Full copyright information is available in the FFmpeg source distribution.

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