[gameprogrammer] Re: Adding video to game

On 4/23/07, Chris Nystrom <cnystrom@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: You probably want smpeg (http://icculus.org/smpeg/). 

Chris
I want to render the vedio in my game, so I need a library that can open the vedio file and render it to the screen, not a seprate program to render it, just like DirectShow, but I'm not using DirectX at all, or the Engine I'm working in isn't using DirectX, it's use OpenGL, and it didn't come with any library that can render any vedio file, so what I have to do? or what library I can use?
I clicked the link, and the first thing it said was "smpeg is an mpeg decoding library", which is what you're looking for, right? You'll just have to look at the examples to figure out how it works. Or find tutorials or something, as the website looks like it has the source code and samples and that's it. ^_^
For a project I'm working on (non-game, so I'll be brief), I use OpenGL (with SDL) and ffmpeg to get video to screen, and it works pretty well (though ffmpeg is rather difficult to learn, it's simple- ish once you've figured it out). The slowest part is (obviously) decoding the video. FWIW, I got very significant performance improvement after moving the video read/decode to a different thread.
Anyway, if you need something simpler (ffmpeg will play mast any video file out there) smpeg looks like a keen choice. 

-- Scott

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