MediaCodec.CreateDecoderByType(String) Method
Definition
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Instantiate the preferred decoder supporting input data of the given mime type.
[Android.Runtime.Register("createDecoderByType", "(Ljava/lang/String;)Landroid/media/MediaCodec;", "")]
public static Android.Media.MediaCodec CreateDecoderByType (string type);[<Android.Runtime.Register("createDecoderByType", "(Ljava/lang/String;)Landroid/media/MediaCodec;", "")>]
static member CreateDecoderByType : string -> Android.Media.MediaCodecParameters
- type
- String
The mime type of the input data.
Returns
- Attributes
Exceptions
if the codec cannot be created.
if type is not a valid mime type.
if type is null.
Remarks
Instantiate the preferred decoder supporting input data of the given mime type.
The following is a partial list of defined mime types and their semantics: <ul> <li>"video/x-vnd.on2.vp8" - VP8 video (i.e. video in .webm) <li>"video/x-vnd.on2.vp9" - VP9 video (i.e. video in .webm) <li>"video/avc" - H.264/AVC video <li>"video/hevc" - H.265/HEVC video <li>"video/mp4v-es" - MPEG4 video <li>"video/3gpp" - H.263 video <li>"audio/3gpp" - AMR narrowband audio <li>"audio/amr-wb" - AMR wideband audio <li>"audio/mpeg" - MPEG1/2 audio layer III <li>"audio/mp4a-latm" - AAC audio (note, this is raw AAC packets, not packaged in LATM!) <li>"audio/vorbis" - vorbis audio <li>"audio/g711-alaw" - G.711 alaw audio <li>"audio/g711-mlaw" - G.711 ulaw audio </ul>
<strong>Note:</strong> It is preferred to use MediaCodecList#findDecoderForFormat and #createByCodecName to ensure that the resulting codec can handle a given format.
Java documentation for android.media.MediaCodec.createDecoderByType(java.lang.String).
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