Ffvcl - Delphi Ffmpeg Vcl Components 5.0.1 - !free!
You can input and output frames in various formats, including RGB, MJPEG, H.263, H.264, and YUV.
was the undisputed king of video—a "Swiss Army knife" capable of recording, converting, and streaming almost any format imaginable. However, it existed primarily as a complex command-line tool, a "guru-only" interface that left many Windows GUI developers wishing for something more native.
Directly access webcams, microphones, or even desktop capture (via GDI/DXGI). This component bridges FFmpeg’s dshow (Windows) or v4l2 (Linux) inputs into a VCL application. FFVCL - Delphi FFmpeg VCL Components 5.0.1
: The EventStreamAdapter was renamed to MemoryAccessAdapter , providing a more standard interface for memory-based I/O.
var Frame: TFFCustomFrame; BMP: TBitmap; begin FFMediaPlayer1.OnVideoFrame := procedure(Sender: TObject; const Frame: TFFCustomFrame) begin BMP := TBitmap.Create; try Frame.ToBitmap(BMP); // Convert FFmpeg frame to Delphi TBitmap BMP.SaveToFile('frame_' + IntToStr(Frame.PTS) + '.bmp'); finally BMP.Free; end; end; FFMediaPlayer1.SeekMode := smAccurate; // Frame-accurate FFMediaPlayer1.Play; end; You can input and output frames in various
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uses FFVCL;
, a streamlined successor that combined the previously separate ScreenCapture and WaveCapture into one efficient tool. Architecture Refinement : Component names were cleaned up for better clarity— EventStreamAdapter became the more descriptive MemoryAccessAdapter StreamProtocol was renamed to MemoryProtocol Visual Precision : For those building advanced decoders, the TVideoStreamInfo
: Independent player components can run simultaneously within a single master application, making it ideal for multi-camera CCTV monitoring software dashboards. var Frame: TFFCustomFrame