[SDL] video playback API in SDL

[René Dudfield]

A webcam/video camera api would be very useful.

The APIs for those are fairly stable on linux/osx/windows.

It also opens up another form of input for games, and therefore many
new game types.

I know there is code for windows, and linux with SDL... and maybe
there's some OSX code lying around somewhere too.  So it's probably a
case of people doing the hard work in putting them all together and
coming up with a sensible API which works with each of them.



On 10/15/07, Arjan <sdl-mailinglist at arjanhouben.nl> wrote:
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> > Message: 10
> > Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 16:26:08 +0000 (GMT)
> > From: Edward Byard <e_byard at yahoo.co.uk>
> > Subject: Re: [SDL] SDL 1.3 roadmap...
> > To: "A list for developers using the SDL library. (includes
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> > Will (or could) SDL 1.3 include any form of video playback API? I think it's so important these days....
> >
> > Ed
>
> Video playback is not a good idea to incorporate into a generic API like
> SDL. Because video standards are constantly evolving and new
> (de)compression methods are thought up every other week or so, it would
> be impossible to keep SDL up to date. At least, that's my humble
> opinion ;)
> For video playback there is already a really good project you can use,
> namely FFmpeg. (http://ffmpeg.mplayerhq.hu/) There is only a tad bit of
> documentation, but there are increasingly more people using it, so there
> is an increasing number of people you can bother with questions.
> If that is a bit rich for you, you could try SDL_ffmpeg. It is a little
> wrapper I wrote, aimed on being an easy to use multimedia library. It is
> in a _very_ early stage but it is in fact usable. I committed it to the
> sdl libraries section. So if you need simple video playback, check it
> out. I really need some people who start using it, since I need the
> feedback to improve on it.
> - arjan
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