Potential ffmpeg candidate

[takov751]

I have use jellyfin before and they have great workaround for rpi4 hw acceleration and this project is a really good example of cross compiling stuff for the rpi. https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-ffmpeg

[takov751]

latest build has

ffmpeg version 5.0.1-Jellyfin Copyright (c) 2000-2022 the FFmpeg developers
  built with gcc 11 (Ubuntu 11.2.0-17ubuntu1)
  configuration: --prefix=/usr/lib/jellyfin-ffmpeg --target-os=linux --extra-libs=-lfftw3f --extra-version=Jellyfin --disable-doc --disable-ffplay --disable-ptx-compression --disable-shared --disable-libxcb --disable-sdl2 --disable-xlib --enable-lto --enable-gpl --enable-version3 --enable-static --enable-gmp --enable-gnutls --enable-chromaprint --enable-libdrm --enable-libass --enable-libfreetype --enable-libfribidi --enable-libfontconfig --enable-libbluray --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libopus --enable-libtheora --enable-libvorbis --enable-libdav1d --enable-libwebp --enable-libvpx --enable-libx264 --enable-libx265 --enable-libzvbi --enable-libzimg --enable-libfdk-aac --toolchain=hardened --enable-cross-compile --arch=armhf --cross-prefix=/usr/bin/arm-linux-gnueabihf-
  libavutil      57. 17.100 / 57. 17.100
  libavcodec     59. 18.100 / 59. 18.100
  libavformat    59. 16.100 / 59. 16.100
  libavdevice    59.  4.100 / 59.  4.100
  libavfilter     8. 24.100 /  8. 24.100
  libswscale      6.  4.100 /  6.  4.100
  libswresample   4.  3.100 /  4.  3.100
  libpostproc    56.  3.100 / 56.  3.100
 V..... h263_v4l2m2m         V4L2 mem2mem H.263 encoder wrapper (codec h263)
 V..... h264_v4l2m2m         V4L2 mem2mem H.264 encoder wrapper (codec h264)
 V..... hevc_v4l2m2m         V4L2 mem2mem HEVC encoder wrapper (codec hevc)
 V..... mpeg4_v4l2m2m        V4L2 mem2mem MPEG4 encoder wrapper (codec mpeg4)
 V..... vp8_v4l2m2m          V4L2 mem2mem VP8 encoder wrapper (codec vp8)

[takov751]

Found one downside with arm build x11grab/xcbgrab and sdl2 disabled

[takov751]

This ffmpeg built is GREAT for headless usage