FFMpeg for iPhone

Question

I am trying to create an app that will allow me to stream video FROM the iPhone TO a server. my current theory as to how to do this is to create a series of FFMpeg files and send them to the server. as far as i can tell i have compiled the FFMpeg library correctly for the iPhone. i followed these instructions here. a series of executable files appeared in the folder so i'm assuming it worked.

my question is now what? how do i get these into an app? how do i make calls to these executable files? and most importantly will this even work the way i want it to?

Answer 1

You have built the ffmpeg binary which can run on an iPhone. You cannot run executables from an app on a (non-jailbroken) phone. So you would have to compile the library, and link against that. Then, from your app, call the relevant functions directly, mimicing what the ffmpeg program does.