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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WebM is free, so you could use a combination of libwebm, libvpx, libogg, and libvorbis.
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One of the main reasons Bink is still in business is because there never seems to be an answer to this question.
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It is kind of crazy given how many people in the world want to watch videos.
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Like, can someone just make a video format that is a regular file format like any other file format? That isn't broken into separate transport file streaming chunk opaque flibflobber formats? We all know what a video is, we all know how it behaves, just make one god damn thing.
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Maybe this is what I have to do after releasing the initial programming language beta. It wouldn't even have to have good compression to be valuable ... it just has to be one simple f'ing thing.
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compression is the main reason video formats are so complicated
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That is false.
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why do you say that? (if I'm wrong, I want to know why)
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Because compression is easy to encapsulate and hide in code. You would be able to use video formats without knowing or caring what the compression was. If video formats were usable. Which they aren't. The biggest culprits in terms of complication are...
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