Decode video in Raspberry Pi without using OpenMAX?

Question

I am looking for an example of decoding video on Raspberry Pi directly, without using OpenMAX.

This explains the different layers of multimedia software:

Answer 1

I think openmax gives more performance in multimedia processing. You can compare performance for this two alternatives simple running respective pipelines for gstreamer. For this actions not needed programming and you can use gst-launch fot this purposes. Openmax plugins for gstreamer start with 'omx' prefix. Coding and decoding operations perfectly executing with omx while main CPU get no load. Proprietary implementation for h264 coding or decoding is very difficult problem and without using libraries you can spend for this many years.