Android sdk cut/trim video file

android video media trim
Catalin picture Catalin · Jun 26, 2012 · Viewed 33k times · Source

Is there any way to cut a video (mp4 or 3gp) on android, like use only the last 5 seconds of the movie... on iphone this is possible using the AVAssetExportSession but on android I haven't found anything similar, just maybe some references to ffmpeg library which seems complicated. Is there any easier way to do it?

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Sebastian Annies picture Sebastian Annies · Jul 19, 2012

You can do this with my mp4parser library. Have a look at the ShortenExample it does exactly what the name suggests. Since the library cannot re-encode the video it can only cut the video at I-frames. So the points in time where you can make a cut are quite coarse.

On Android 4.1 you can access the hardware codecs via MediaCodec API which could be an option (but I haven't seen any example of that yet)

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