From: Phlip <phlipcpp@...>
Date: 2007-08-20T05:55:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Video playback library?

John Reiter wrote:

> So, I have an upcoming project that will require writing a program that
> can do some simple video playback.  I would need it to be cross platform
> (at least Windows and OS X, which rules out the gstreamer and xine
> bindings for ruby that I've seen), and it would need to be able to play
> some common video formats like mpeg-1 and avi.

Just a guess; the format of the future is a video rendered as a Flash 
animation. Then you put the backend in whatever format you want, and render 
on-demand into Flash. That even supports Linux!

> I would love to write this in ruby

Ruby can only be the glue code there. Video playback is >cough< CPU 
intensive...

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