H.264 video codec support using OpenH264/FFmpeg

webrtc/build/common.gypi

 # Copyright (c) 2012 The WebRTC project authors. All Rights Reserved.
 #
 # Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license
 # that can be found in the LICENSE file in the root of the source
 # tree. An additional intellectual property rights grant can be found
 # in the file PATENTS.  All contributing project authors may
 # be found in the AUTHORS file in the root of the source tree.
 
 # This file contains common settings for building WebRTC components.
 
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     # Defer ssl perference to that specified through sslconfig.h instead of
     # choosing openssl or nss directly.  In practice, this can be used to
     # enable schannel on windows.
     'use_legacy_ssl_defaults%': 0,
 
     # Determines whether NEON code will be built.
     'build_with_neon%': 0,
 
     # Enable this to use HW H.264 encoder/decoder on iOS/Mac PeerConnections.
-    # Enabling this may break interop with Android clients that support H264.
+    # Enabling this may break interop with Android clients that support H.264.
     'use_objc_h264%': 0,
 
+    # Enable this to build H.264 encoder/decoder using third party libraries.
+    # Encoding uses OpenH264 and decoding uses FFmpeg. Because of this, OpenH264
+    # and FFmpeg have to be correctly enabled separately.
+    # - 'use_openh264=1' is required for OpenH264 targets to be defined.
+    # - 'ffmpeg_branding=Chrome' is one way to support H.264 decoding in FFmpeg.
+    #   FFmpeg can be built with/without H.264 support, see 'ffmpeg_branding'.
+    #   Without it, it compiles but H264DecoderImpl fails to initialize.
+    # CHECK THE OPENH264, FFMPEG AND H.264 LICENSES/PATENTS BEFORE BUILDING.
+    # http://www.openh264.org, https://www.ffmpeg.org/
+    'use_third_party_h264%': 0,
+
     'conditions': [
       ['build_with_chromium==1', {
         # Exclude pulse audio on Chromium since its prerequisites don't require
         # pulse audio.
         'include_pulse_audio%': 0,
 
         # Exclude internal ADM since Chromium uses its own IO handling.
         'include_internal_audio_device%': 0,
 
         # Remove tests for Chromium to avoid slowing down GYP generation.
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         'defines': [
           'WEBRTC_MAC',
           'WEBRTC_IOS',
         ],
       }],
       ['OS=="ios" and use_objc_h264==1', {
         'defines': [
           'WEBRTC_OBJC_H264',
         ],
       }],
+      ['use_third_party_h264==1', {
+        'defines': [
+          'WEBRTC_THIRD_PARTY_H264',
+        ],
+      }],
       ['OS=="linux"', {
         'defines': [
           'WEBRTC_LINUX',
         ],
       }],
       ['OS=="mac"', {
         'defines': [
           'WEBRTC_MAC',
         ],
       }],
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           # of a more specific macro.
           'defines': [
             'WEBRTC_POSIX',
           ],
         }],
       ],
     },
   }, # target_defaults
 }