Video playback with openGL/SDL

[Specchum]

Ok, anyone know of a simple and compact library I could use to play videos (AVI or MPEG format) with SDL or OpenGL?

I could go the DirectShow way and use the DS library to play back a video but I was wondering if anyone knows of a better alternative?

[KC_SkeletalMesh]

Originally Posted by Specchum

Ok, anyone know of a simple and compact library I could use to play videos (AVI or MPEG format) with SDL or OpenGL?

I could go the DirectShow way and use the DS library to play back a video but I was wondering if anyone knows of a better alternative?

I had implemented an AVI video texture thingie in my first opengl engine.
Its pretty simple and straight forward. I managed to stream and render 4 separate avi files, convert and render as GL textures, all visible on 12 poly surfaces. Managed to get 40 FPS on an Athlon XP 2000+ CPU with a Geforce 4 Mx 400 video card.

You can also look at Quake3's ROQ video format. Its compression is better and decoding is faster.

A really fast commercial video texture lib is Bink's video texture library(Its called Granny). Its kinda industry standard. I am not sure if they have a free evaluation download of their middle ware.

[Specchum]

Originally Posted by KC_SkeletalMesh

I had implemented an AVI video texture thingie in my first opengl engine.

What did you use to decode the AVI? A custom AVI decoder or something like Video For Windows/DirectShow?

You can also look at Quake3's ROQ video format. Its compression is better and decoding is faster.

Is it a closed proprietory format? Something I'd like to stay away from!

A really fast commercial video texture lib is Bink's video texture library(Its called Granny).

Yep, but that's a bit overkill for my purpose.

[rubberfly]

if you can use GPL softwares

http://libmpeg2.sourceforge.net/

might serve...

[arca1n]

Originally Posted by Specchum

What did you use to decode the AVI? A custom AVI decoder or something like Video For Windows/DirectShow?

I have used Video for windows library ... its pretty useful and easy to implement... Check out Nehe's Opengl sample on nehe.gamedev.net. its neatly done.

Originally Posted by Specchum

Is it a closed proprietory format? Something I'd like to stay away from!

Yes its closed, you cannot use the libavcodecs of ffmpeg as they have a shitload of problems compiling with Visual C++ on the contrary if you are looking for a windows independent implementation. go with ffmpeg its got all the codecs in the world you can imagine and its pretty fast too.

[KC_SkeletalMesh]

Originally Posted by Specchum

Is it a closed proprietory format? Something I'd like to stay away from!

No idea. You can google up a bit I guess. Quake3 source code is Open now.

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