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// tutorial01.c
// Code based on a tutorial by Martin Bohme (boehme@inb.uni-luebeckREMOVETHIS.de)
// Tested on Gentoo, CVS version 5/01/07 compiled with GCC 4.1.1

// A small sample program that shows how to use libavformat and libavcodec to
// read video from a file.
//
// Use
//
// gcc -o tutorial01 tutorial01.c -lavformat -lavcodec -lavutil -lswscale
//
// to build (assuming libavformat and libavcodec are correctly installed
// your system).
//
// Run using
//
// tutorial01 sample_100kbit.mp4
//
// to write the first five frames from "sample_100kbit.mp4" to disk in PPM
// format.

#include <libavcodec/avcodec.h>
#include <libavformat/avformat.h>
#include <libswscale/swscale.h>

#include <stdio.h>

void SaveFrame(AVFrame *pFrame, int width, int height, int iFrame) {
    FILE *pFile;
    char szFilename[32];
    int  y;

    // Open file
    sprintf(szFilename, "frame%d.ppm", iFrame);
    pFile=fopen(szFilename, "wb");
    if(pFile==NULL)
        return;

    // Write header
    fprintf(pFile, "P6\n%d %d\n255\n", width, height);

    // Write pixel data
    for(y=0; y<height; y++)
        fwrite(pFrame->data[0]+y*pFrame->linesize[0], 1, width*3, pFile);

    // Close file
    fclose(pFile);
}

int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
    AVFormatContext *pFormatCtx;
    int             i, videoStream;
    AVCodecContext  *pCodecCtx;
    AVCodec         *pCodec;
    AVFrame         *pFrame;
    AVFrame         *pFrameRGB;
    AVPacket        packet;
    int             frameFinished;
    int             numBytes;
    uint8_t         *buffer;
    struct SwsContext *img_convert_ctx;

    if(argc < 2) {
        printf("Please provide a movie file\n");
        return -1;
    }
    // Register all formats and codecs
    av_register_all();

    // Open video file
    if(av_open_input_file(&pFormatCtx, argv[1], NULL, 0, NULL)!=0)
        return -1; // Couldn't open file

    // Retrieve stream information
    if(av_find_stream_info(pFormatCtx)<0)
        return -1; // Couldn't find stream information

    // Dump information about file onto standard error
    dump_format(pFormatCtx, 0, argv[1], 0);

    // Find the first video stream
    videoStream=-1;
    for(i=0; i<pFormatCtx->nb_streams; i++)
        if(pFormatCtx->streams[i]->codec->codec_type==CODEC_TYPE_VIDEO) {
            videoStream=i;
            break;
        }
    if(videoStream==-1)
        return -1; // Didn't find a video stream

    // Get a pointer to the codec context for the video stream
    pCodecCtx=pFormatCtx->streams[videoStream]->codec;
    
    img_convert_ctx = sws_getContext(pCodecCtx->width, pCodecCtx->height,pCodecCtx->pix_fmt, pCodecCtx->width, pCodecCtx->height,PIX_FMT_RGB24, SWS_BICUBIC, NULL, NULL, NULL);// other codes

    // Find the decoder for the video stream
    pCodec=avcodec_find_decoder(pCodecCtx->codec_id);
    if(pCodec==NULL) {
        fprintf(stderr, "Unsupported codec!\n");
        return -1; // Codec not found
    }
    // Open codec
    if(avcodec_open(pCodecCtx, pCodec)<0)
        return -1; // Could not open codec

    // Allocate video frame
    pFrame=avcodec_alloc_frame();

    // Allocate an AVFrame structure
    pFrameRGB=avcodec_alloc_frame();
    if(pFrameRGB==NULL)
        return -1;

    // Determine required buffer size and allocate buffer
    numBytes=avpicture_get_size(PIX_FMT_RGB24, pCodecCtx->width,
                                pCodecCtx->height);
    buffer=(uint8_t *)av_malloc(numBytes*sizeof(uint8_t));

    // Assign appropriate parts of buffer to image planes in pFrameRGB
    // Note that pFrameRGB is an AVFrame, but AVFrame is a superset
    // of AVPicture
    avpicture_fill((AVPicture *)pFrameRGB, buffer, PIX_FMT_RGB24,
                   pCodecCtx->width, pCodecCtx->height);

    // Read frames and save first five frames to disk
    i=0;
    while(av_read_frame(pFormatCtx, &packet)>=0) {
        // Is this a packet from the video stream?
        if(packet.stream_index==videoStream) {
            // Decode video frame
            avcodec_decode_video(pCodecCtx, pFrame, &frameFinished,
                                 packet.data, packet.size);

            // Did we get a video frame?
            if(frameFinished) {
                // Convert the image from its native format to RGB
                //img_convert((AVPicture *)pFrameRGB, PIX_FMT_RGB24, (AVPicture*)pFrame, pCodecCtx->pix_fmt, pCodecCtx->width, pCodecCtx->height);
                // Convert the image from its native format to RGB
                sws_scale(img_convert_ctx, (const uint8_t* const*)pFrame->data, pFrame->linesize,0, pCodecCtx->height, pFrameRGB->data, pFrameRGB->linesize);

                // Save the frame to disk
                if(++i<=5)
                    SaveFrame(pFrameRGB, pCodecCtx->width, pCodecCtx->height,
                              i);
            }
        }

        // Free the packet that was allocated by av_read_frame
        av_free_packet(&packet);
    }

    // Free the Sw context
    sws_freeContext(img_convert_ctx);

    // Free the RGB image
    av_free(buffer);
    av_free(pFrameRGB);

    // Free the YUV frame
    av_free(pFrame);

    // Close the codec
    avcodec_close(pCodecCtx);

    // Close the video file
    av_close_input_file(pFormatCtx);

    return 0;
}