Media Tool Flutter

Video, image and audio processing via native platform code.

🚧 WIP 🚧

Only Apple (iOS & macOS) support is implemented via native code yet.

About

Flutter plugin for advanced media manipulation using native platform code. Supported media types are video, audio and image.

Native Frameworks

Platform	Framework
Apple	MediaToolSwift
Android	MediaCodec*
Windows & Linux	OpenCL*

* Pull requests with implementation of MediaToolPlatform are welcome!

Video

Features:

• Compress with multiple codecs
• Resize
• Frame rate adjustment
• Audio track manipulataion
• Alpha channel and HDR handling
• Slow motion support
• Metadata preserving
• Hardware acceleration
• Thumbnails extraction
• Video information gathering
• Progress and cancellation

Codecs

Video: H.264, H.265/HEVC and ProRes.

Audio: AAC, Opus and FLAC.

Example

// Compress video file
final task = VideoTool.compress(
  id: id, // unique id
  path: path,
  destination: destination,
  // Video
  videoSettings: const VideoSettings(
    codec: VideoCodec.h264,
    bitrate: 2000000, // 2 Mbps
    size: Size(1280.0, 1280.0), // size to fit in
    // quality, frame rate, atd.
  ),
  // Audio
  skipAudio: false,
  audioSettings: const AudioSettings(
    codec: AudioCodec.opus, 
    bitrate: 96000, // 96 Kbps
    // sample rate, quality, atd.
  ),
  // Metadata and file options
  skipMetadata: false,
  overwrite: true,
  deleteOrigin: false
);

// State notifier
task.events.listen(print);

// Cancellation
task.cancel();

Image

Features:

• Convert with multiple formats
• Resize and crop
• Frame rate adjustment
• Animated image sequences support
• Alpha channel and HDR handling
• Metadata and orientation preserving
• Image information gathering

Formats:

• JPEG
• PNG and APNG
• GIF
• TIFF
• BMP
• WEBP
• HEIF

Example

// Convert image file
final metadata = await ImageTool.compress(
  path: path,
  destination: destination,
  settings: const ImageSettings(
    format: ImageFormat.png,
    size: Size(1280.0, 1280.0),
    crop: false, // crop or fit
    // frame rate, quality, alpha channel, background color, atd.
  ),
  skipMetadata: false,
  overwrite: true,
  deleteOrigin: false
);

Audio

Features:

• Compress with multiple codecs
• Metadata preserving
• Hardware acceleration
• Audio information gathering
• Progress and cancellation

Codecs:

• AAC
• Opus
• FLAC

Example

// Compress audio file
final task = AudioTool.compress(
  id: id, // unique id
  path: path,
  destination: destination,
  settings: const AudioSettings(
    codec: AudioCodec.opus, 
    bitrate: 96000, // 96 Kbps
    // sample rate, quality, atd.
  ),
  skipMetadata: false,
  overwrite: true,
  deleteOrigin: false
);

// State notifier
task.events.listen(print);

// Cancellation
task.cancel();

Internally

Each plugin methods which run platform code do support multiple parallel executions, each of execution has it's own progress, cancellation and error handling. Main tests stored at integration_test.

Benchmarks

Video

Plugin Name	Time
media_tool_darwin	1x
video_compress	1x
light_compressor	1.5-2x
media_tool_ffmpeg	8-12x

Video tests were executed on macOS (Apple Silicon) using H.264/AAC/MP4 with 1280x720 and 1920x1080 resolutions.

Image

Plugin Name	Time
media_tool_darwin	1x
media_tool_ffmpeg	3-5x
image	10x

Image tests were executed on macOS (Apple Silicon) using PNG and JPEG.

License

The Plugin is licensed under the MIT. The platform implementations may have their own licenses:

• MediaToolSwift - Mozilla Public License 2.0