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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I used HAP recently. It's super simple, a series of compressed textures. Ref. impl is .h + .c file ~1300 loc. You still need a container, common are AVI/MOV, but if you want to avoid the complexity of a classic demuxer, you'd have to roll your own container to store the frames.
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I’m curious: when you say no container - what is the issue with a container? And how would you like to (for lack of a better word) contain the video?
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The issue is I don't as a user of the library care what the container is, so why are you making me care, and why are you making me wrangle more dependencies for something that is trivial? And why are you requiring the playback system to not know what it is playing back?
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Like, all of this should just not even be an issue, and it's a little bit sad to me that we live in a world where many people don't even know what I mean when I say this stuff.
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Yes, that was the most difficult part when integrating it into my program and I wished HAP would do it all. At least the codec is simplified - decoding e.g. H.264 is madness in comparison. Could be a good stepping stone for sb. who wants to implement your video file format idea.
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