This is a new android-ffmpeg project since it seems there were so many different ways of doing it, it was confusing. So here is my clean, easily changeable, static ffmpeg creator for Android. The result is a single 'ffmpeg' that is statically linked, so its the only file you need. setup ----- 1. Install the Android NDK 2. On Debian/Ubuntu, run: apt-get install yasm bash patch make building -------- cd android-ffmpeg git submodule init git submodule update NDK_BASE=/path/to/android-ndk ./configure_make_everything.sh That should give you command line binary ffmpeg/ffmpeg, which is the only file you should need. customizing ----------- If you want to change which coders, decoders, muxers, filters, etc that are included, edit configure_ffmpeg.sh and add/substract what you want. sources of inspiration ---------------------- https://github.com/mconf/android-ffmpeg https://github.com/halfninja/android-ffmpeg-x264 https://github.com/guardianproject/SSCVideoProto http://wiki.multimedia.cx/index.php?title=FFmpeg_filter_howto testing ------- ./ffmpeg -f lavfi -i "movie=midr-mjpeg.mov,redact=redact_unsort.txt" -f lavfi -i "amovie=midr-mjpeg.mov,aredact=aredact_unsort.txt" -acodec copy -vcodec copy -y /tmp/output.mov ./ffmpeg -f lavfi -i "movie=../testfiles/sscvideoproto_nexuss_high_quality_2_3_3.mp4,redact=redact_unsort.txt" -f lavfi -i "amovie=../testfiles/sscvideoproto_nexuss_high_quality_2_3_3.mp4,aredact=aredact_unsort.txt" -acodec copy -vcodec libx264 -b:v 1000k -an -f mp4 -y /tmp/output.mp4