Add recipe to install ffpyplayer with many video formats support for old toolchain

[germn]

Current ffpyplayer recipe supports only h264+aac (only .mp4 file format).

This is confusing (since rarely mentioned anywhere) and probably doesn't meet people expectations (if I'm going to use video, probably I want to support more formats then only .mp4). Here's some discussions/questions about it: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.

With this PR your can specify ffpyplayer_codecs (additionally to ffpyplayer) to enable all default codecs and libx264, libshine also. I tested it on couple of videos and couldn't find any that couldn't be processed.

I'm new with bash and p4a, so I would ask you to check PR before merging. Thanks.

[FeralBytes]

Thanks @germn , just to be clear I am not an approval authority for Kivy; but I do appreciate this PR and your work; it was something I was going to have to fix/address in a few weeks. Now solved.

[inclement]

Thanks for the PR! @FeralBytes did you test this and it works? If so I'll happily merge it, but I no longer have the old toolchain set up for testing myself.

[FeralBytes]

@inclement I will test it and get back to you soon. I should be able to test it tonight.

[germn]

Just to be clear, this PR is for old toolchain (pygame based), but there's also one for new toolchain (SDL2 based): #954

I guess most users more interested in second one.

[FeralBytes]

@germn Sorry for the delay, I have very slow Internet and depend on a cell phone for my Internet. So downloading the Android SDK & NDK took some time. I am still going to test this and yes i realize it is for the pygame tool chain.

[FeralBytes]

@germn Now that I have everything in place; to run this and specifically test it; I just add "ffpyplayer_codecs" to the requirements in buildozer.spec correct? Or will it just work with an old toolchain build?

[germn]

@FeralBytes to enable more video formats support your just need to add also "ffpyplayer_codecs" to buildozer, for example:

requirements = hostpython, kivy, ffpyplayer, ffpyplayer_codecs, openssl

[FeralBytes]

I am sorry I did not mean to press comment.
I have finished my testing so far for today.
The code does not work for me @germn.
It crashes with a debug traceback but no real error but it is related to playing the song. I will attach in the next comment. I hope it is not my error.

[FeralBytes]

Removed Error Logs Polluting PR.

[germn]

@FeralBytes can you provide file you tested with? It would be cool also to see some example project to reproduce error.

[germn]

[INFO ] [Kivy ] v1.9.1
[INFO ] [ImageLoaderFFPy] Using ffpyplayer 3.2

Sorry, I didn't mention it clearly, but it makes sense to test with kivy==master and latest commit in this PR. In this case versions should be Kivy: v1.9.2-dev0 and ffpyplayer 4.0.1.dev0.

Just to be clear: did code/file you tested work before this PR?

[FeralBytes]

@germn give me some more time; then and I will validate everything.
Also sorry about that; not pulling master was an error on my part, I will also make sure it is pulling latest ffpyplayer.

[FeralBytes]

Removed Error Logs Polluting PR.

[FeralBytes]

@germn I just confirmed with another Ubuntu 16.04 user that the old tool chain is also broken for him @Bakterija ... I use LM 18 but it pulls as a base from Ubuntu 16.04.
As such I will have to download an older version of LM or Ubuntu before I can test this PR for you.
What is your OS and version?

[FeralBytes]

@germn What is your OS and version?
Also I have downloaded LM 17.3 and will setup a virtual machine soon to be able to test your PR on soon.

[germn]

@FeralBytes I'm using Ubuntu 16.04 LTS inside Virtual box.

Just to be clear: am I understanding correctly, that kivy==master with old toolchain (and without ffpyplayer at all) is broken for you right now?

[FeralBytes]

@germn Yes.
With this error:
error: build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/kivy/include/config.h: No such file or directory

[FeralBytes]

@germn looks like you will need someone else to test until I get Kivy sorted out. I am currently just trying to get any Kivy APK to work; with no success for any of the methods or build chains. I am even using VM's.

[germn]

Since old toolchain is outdated I'll close this PR.