# bilibili/ijkplayer

Android/iOS video player based on FFmpeg n3.4, with MediaCodec, VideoToolbox support.

Repository: https://github.com/bilibili/ijkplayer
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/ijkplayer
Language: C
License: GPL-2.0
License Family: copyleft
Topics: ijkplayer, android, ios, video, player, ffmpeg
Last push: 2024-08-13T00:53:33+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4839, "days_push": 751, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 33200, forks 8235 (observed 2026-08-28T04:11:58.166384+00:00)

## What it is
ijkplayer is a video player library for Android and iOS built on FFmpeg (ffplay), offering a MediaPlayer-like API with hardware decoding via MediaCodec and VideoToolbox. It supports multiple CPU architectures and optional alternative backends like ExoPlayer and AVPlayer.

## Use cases
- play video in an android app with hardware decoding
- embed a customizable video player in an ios app
- play hls and other streaming formats on mobile
- replace exoplayer with an ffmpeg-based player
- build a bilibili-style video playback experience
- decode video with mediacodec or videotoolbox

## When to choose
- you need fine-grained control over playback and ffmpeg codec support on android or ios
- you need hardware-accelerated decoding across many mobile cpu architectures
- default platform players (MediaPlayer, AVPlayer) lack format support you need

## When to avoid
- you only need simple playback and prefer a maintained high-level player like ExoPlayer or AVPlayer
- you need subtitles rendering or avfilter support, which are not on the plan
- you target very old platforms (Android API 8-, iOS pre-6.0)

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: video-processing, audio-processing
- domain: mobile-development, media, cross-platform
- platform: cpp, c
- tags: video-player, ffmpeg, mediacodec, videotoolbox, hardware-decoding, streaming, android, ios

## Member repositories
- bilibili/ijkplayer (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:58.166384+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T16:28:30.318705+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/bilibili/ijkplayer (fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:58.166384+00:00, sha e454bc58732a)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.