open for future additions).Īs it turns out, doing video is really hard. I have spent a few days looking at this and so I will share what I know (and as usual leave the Q. (EDIT: The library in progress mentioned at the end of this NET bindings at least all the better if it is natively managedĬan anyone suggest a lightweight, (.NET) library, that can take a video file, and spit out some frames into a byte?

Permissive license (LGPL or more free-er).

Super simple - all that is needed is a way to load, jump and render a frame programatically - ideally it would use the systems codecs and not require an assortment of plugins.

Renders the video frame data to memory, so it can be picked up and.

The 'solution' can be any wrapper/API/library, but with characteristics that make it suitable for use in a rendering engine, namely: So far the most promising library I've found is the one based on the VLC player libraries - by virtue of it using the same resources as VLC Player it is known to be very capable it also renders to blocks of memory, but the API (at least of the one on Github) is more of a port of the C++ API rather than a managed wrapper. I have looked on Google and found that the video library world is very expansive (and geared towards video processing), and am having trouble finding a suitable one.įFMpeg is very comprehensive, but is an entire suite and would take a good amount of work to integrate. Everything is in place - except for the part that actually gets the video. I intend to do this by having the video frames rendered to a block of memory, then use this to update a texture each frame.

In my project I would like to be able to play back video on surfaces in the world.

Ffmpeg linux directshow