libavcodec: Add an OpenH264 encoder wrapper

Compared to existing, common opensource H264 encoders, this can be
useful since it has got a different license (BSD instead of GPL).

Performance- and qualitywise it is comparable to x264 in ultrafast
mode.

Hooking it up as an encoder in libavcodec also simplifies comparing
it against other common encoders.

This requires OpenH264 1.3 or newer. Since the OpenH264 API and ABI
changes frequently, only releases are supported.

To take advantage of the OpenH264 patent offer, the OpenH264 library
must not be redistributed, but downloaded at runtime at the end-user's
system.

Signed-off-by: Martin Storsjö <martin@martin.st>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 1408689d3b..09cb30b5f3 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -193,6 +193,7 @@ External library support:
   --enable-libopencore-amrnb enable AMR-NB de/encoding via libopencore-amrnb [no]
   --enable-libopencore-amrwb enable AMR-WB decoding via libopencore-amrwb [no]
   --enable-libopencv       enable video filtering via libopencv [no]
+  --enable-libopenh264     enable H264 encoding via OpenH264 [no]
   --enable-libopenjpeg     enable JPEG 2000 de/encoding via OpenJPEG [no]
   --enable-libopus         enable Opus de/encoding via libopus [no]
   --enable-libpulse        enable Pulseaudio input via libpulse [no]
@@ -1156,6 +1157,7 @@ EXTERNAL_LIBRARY_LIST="
     libopencore_amrnb
     libopencore_amrwb
     libopencv
+    libopenh264
     libopenjpeg
     libopus
     libpulse
@@ -2002,6 +2004,7 @@ libopencore_amrnb_decoder_deps="libopencore_amrnb"
 libopencore_amrnb_encoder_deps="libopencore_amrnb"
 libopencore_amrnb_encoder_select="audio_frame_queue"
 libopencore_amrwb_decoder_deps="libopencore_amrwb"
+libopenh264_encoder_deps="libopenh264"
 libopenjpeg_decoder_deps="libopenjpeg"
 libopenjpeg_encoder_deps="libopenjpeg"
 libopus_decoder_deps="libopus"
@@ -4189,6 +4192,7 @@ enabled libmp3lame        && require "libmp3lame >= 3.98.3" lame/lame.h lame_set
 enabled libopencore_amrnb && require libopencore_amrnb opencore-amrnb/interf_dec.h Decoder_Interface_init -lopencore-amrnb
 enabled libopencore_amrwb && require libopencore_amrwb opencore-amrwb/dec_if.h D_IF_init -lopencore-amrwb
 enabled libopencv         && require_pkg_config opencv opencv/cv.h cvCreateImageHeader
+enabled libopenh264       && require_pkg_config openh264 wels/codec_api.h WelsGetCodecVersion
 enabled libopenjpeg       && { { check_header openjpeg.h && check_lib2 openjpeg.h opj_version -lopenjpeg -DOPJ_STATIC; } ||
                                { require_pkg_config libopenjpeg1 openjpeg.h opj_version -DOPJ_STATIC; } }
 enabled libopus           && require_pkg_config opus opus_multistream.h opus_multistream_decoder_create