MediaCodecInfo.CodecCapabilities

16 bits per pixel RGB color format, with 5-bit red & blue and 6-bit green component.

Using 16-bit little-endian representation, colors stored as Red 15:11, Green 10:5, Blue 4:0.

            byte                   byte
  <--------- i --------> | <------ i + 1 ------>
 +--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+
 |     BLUE     |      GREEN      |     RED      |
 +--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+
  0           4  5     7   0     2  3           7
 bit
 

24 bits per pixel RGB color format, with 8-bit red, green & blue components.

Using 24-bit little-endian representation, colors stored as Red 7:0, Green 15:8, Blue 23:16.

         byte              byte             byte
  <------ i -----> | <---- i+1 ----> | <---- i+2 ----->
 +-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+
 |       RED       |      GREEN      |       BLUE      |
 +-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+
 

32 bits per pixel RGBA color format, with 8-bit red, green, blue, and alpha components.

Using 32-bit little-endian representation, colors stored as Red 7:0, Green 15:8, Blue 23:16, and Alpha 31:24.

         byte              byte             byte              byte
  <------ i -----> | <---- i+1 ----> | <---- i+2 ----> | <---- i+3 ----->
 +-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+
 |       RED       |      GREEN      |       BLUE      |      ALPHA      |
 +-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+
 

16 bits per pixel, little-endian Y color format.

            byte                   byte
  <--------- i --------> | <------ i + 1 ------>
 +--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+
 |                       Y                       |
 +--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+
  0                    7   0                    7
 bit
 

32 bits per pixel, little-endian Y color format.

         byte              byte             byte              byte
  <------ i -----> | <---- i+1 ----> | <---- i+2 ----> | <---- i+3 ----->
 +-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+
 |                                   Y                                   |
 +-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+
  0               7 0               7 0               7 0               7
 bit
 

8 bits per pixel Y color format.

Each byte contains a single pixel. This format corresponds to L_8.

Flexible 32 bits per pixel RGBA color format with 8-bit red, green, blue, and alpha components.

Use this format with Image. This format corresponds to FLEX_RGBA_8888, and can represent COLOR_Format32bitBGRA8888, COLOR_Format32bitABGR8888 and COLOR_Format32bitARGB8888 formats.

Flexible 24 bits per pixel RGB color format with 8-bit red, green and blue components.

Use this format with Image. This format corresponds to FLEX_RGB_888, and can represent COLOR_Format24bitBGR888 and COLOR_Format24bitRGB888 formats.

SMIA 10-bit Bayer format.

SMIA 8-bit Bayer format. Each byte represents the top 8-bits of a 10-bit signal.

SMIA 8-bit compressed Bayer format. Each byte represents a sample from the 10-bit signal that is compressed into 8-bits using DPCM/PCM compression, as defined by the SMIA Functional Specification.

Flexible 12 bits per pixel, subsampled YUV color format with 8-bit chroma and luma components.

Chroma planes are subsampled by 2 both horizontally and vertically. Use this format with Image. This format corresponds to YUV_420_888, and can represent the COLOR_FormatYUV411Planar, COLOR_FormatYUV411PackedPlanar, COLOR_FormatYUV420Planar, COLOR_FormatYUV420PackedPlanar, COLOR_FormatYUV420SemiPlanar and COLOR_FormatYUV420PackedSemiPlanar formats.

Flexible 16 bits per pixel, subsampled YUV color format with 8-bit chroma and luma components.

Chroma planes are horizontally subsampled by 2. Use this format with Image. This format corresponds to YUV_422_888, and can represent the COLOR_FormatYCbYCr, COLOR_FormatYCrYCb, COLOR_FormatCbYCrY, COLOR_FormatCrYCbY, COLOR_FormatYUV422Planar, COLOR_FormatYUV422PackedPlanar, COLOR_FormatYUV422SemiPlanar and COLOR_FormatYUV422PackedSemiPlanar formats.

Flexible 24 bits per pixel YUV color format with 8-bit chroma and luma components.

Chroma planes are not subsampled. Use this format with Image. This format corresponds to YUV_444_888, and can represent the COLOR_FormatYUV444Interleaved format.

video decoder only: codec supports seamless resolution changes.

video decoder only: codec supports secure decryption.

video or audio decoder only: codec supports tunneled playback.

Defined in the OpenMAX IL specs, color format values are drawn from OMX_COLOR_FORMATTYPE.

Retrieve the codec capabilities for a certain mime type, profile and level. If the type, or profile-level combination is not understood by the framework, it returns null.

Returns the audio capabilities or null if this is not an audio codec.

Returns a MediaFormat object with default values for configurations that have defaults.

Returns the encoding capabilities or null if this is not an encoder.

Returns the max number of the supported concurrent codec instances.

This is a hint for an upper bound. Applications should not expect to successfully operate more instances than the returned value, but the actual number of concurrently operable instances may be less as it depends on the available resources at time of use.

Returns the mime type for which this codec-capability object was created.

Returns the video capabilities or null if this is not a video codec.

Query codec feature requirements.

These features are required to be used by the codec, and as such, they are always turned on.

Query codec feature capabilities.

These features are supported to be used by the codec. These include optional features that can be turned on, as well as features that are always on.

Query whether codec supports a given MediaFormat.

Note: On LOLLIPOP, format must not contain a frame rate. Use format.setString(MediaFormat.KEY_FRAME_RATE, null) to clear any existing frame rate setting in the format.