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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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.
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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