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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One of the main reasons Bink is still in business is because there never seems to be an answer to this question.
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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(a) idea that you should separate the package format from the content and allow people to use any package format (b) idea that you should separate the audio encoding from the video, and allow people to use any audio encoding (c) idea that you should break your audio playback ...
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... code into 237 different libraries (d) idea that you should interface with OS-installed codecs to play videos (e) idea that people want to do a bunch of work to be able to use your format (f) idea that videos shouldn't be simple to play Feel free to reorder these.
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