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’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?
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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I can see your point. I guess a majority of video playback systems try to be versatile, an “all-in-one” solution rather than trying to address a specific application for it. Video playback is a special kind of hell :)
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It's not even about a specific application. People just want to play a video.
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"Specific application" is an excuse. It is overcomplicated for no good reason, except that people designing this stuff are doing a bad job. I can't mince words about it. They're ensconced in a culture of how to do it that is bad, so all new attempts are bad too.
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fair point. I guess their hunt is always for faster and better compression rather than simplified usage.
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