If I want to play videos from within a program (I don't care much about format), should I use Theora or an mp4 library (any recommendations?) We used Bink in The Witness, but I am looking for something I can redistribute for free.
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libmpv *might* be an option if you can live without static linking. API is ISC licensed, while the core is LGPL (--enable-lgpl). I don't think anything can compete with Bink's cross-platform support, thoughhttps://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/blob/master/libmpv/client.h …
I don't think I would ship anything that is GPL or LGPL ... the goal of this system is to eliminate complexity, and legal constraints are complexity. Much nicer if you can easily assume "all code distributed with this compiler is under an MIT-like license".
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If you only distribute the API client.h and have people provide their own DLL (or provide a pre-compiled one for them), that's still an option. Redistributing an entire video playback library's source (plus any dependencies) is talking about a lot of code anyway.
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No, it's too much complexity. This should be simple. If it's not simple we won't ship it.
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Fair enough.
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Also, why should "entire video playback library" be big? In principle it's small.
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It doesn't need to be, but most open source video stuff just ends up outsourcing the heavy lifting to something like ffmpeg or libav, and those are massive projects meant to handle a variety of formats/features. I don't know of any single-format A/V libs that aren't commercial.
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