Loading from buffer for mobile

[jnroesch]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. From my understanding it is currently impossible to play encrypted files in avpro that are on the disk. I store recorded videos by the user on the disk with a custom byte encryption and custom file ending so that other apps like media gallery on the phone will not detect the recorded files. It is easy to load the byte[] in memory and decrypt it but since avpro does not accept this as an input I first have to write the decrypted file to the Disk again and play that. Then I have to remove this decrypted file when the video is finished playing. I found the OpenVideoFromBuffer method but it seems to work only on windows and not on mobile.

Describe the solution you'd like I would like to see an interface method like OpenVideoFromBuffer or OpenVideoFromBinary which takes a byte-array as input and displays the video content of that.

Describe alternatives you've considered As mentioned above the only alternative is to decrypt the file and store it as a regular mp4 file which is not suitable in our case.

Additional context OpenVideoFromBuffer is also not documented in the pdf so I am not sure if this is even up to date or supported anymore. I think there are a lot of usecases where reading a binary input would make sense and allow for a great variety of applications and customizations for the developer.

[redccoma]

Oh, my God. This was exactly what our team was thinking about. Thanks to the proposer. We hope to support these features in the near future.!

[NawarRajab]

YES! This is what our team needs. the only alternative for us is to play the video on the native side and stream it's texture which is not a great solution. Please work on that :)

[littlesome]

Same issue, Maybe currently a workaround: start a simple local http server, play video by url like http://127.0.0.1:port/video001.mp4, on http request, feed you video buffer

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[ananttheant]

Any update on this?

[sv955]

Any update on this?

[wangwhsz]

Not yet. And the method "OpenVideoFromBuffer " needs specific Video API “Direct Show”，it wont work with "Media Foundation".