WinAPI videos? how to play videos beside avi?

Collapse
This topic is closed.
X
X
Collapse
 
  • Page of 1
  • Time
  • Show
Clear All
new posts
Previous template Next
  • jon
    #1

    WinAPI videos? how to play videos beside avi?

    Hi, I was hoping someone in this section could help me with a C based
    API that plays videos, all different kinds of videos. I have found
    how to play .avi files, but playing other files seems to be a lot
    harder. I know you must use codec's (unless i'm mistaken) and thats
    where I get lost, but I think you have to use COM in it somewhere, but
    it's over my head, could someone please help me??

    Thanks in advance.
    Jon
    Tags: None
    • Jack Klein
      #2
      Re: WinAPI videos? how to play videos beside avi?

      On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 14:01:03 -0800 (PST), jon <jmshahen@hotma il.com>
      wrote in comp.lang.c:
      Hi, I was hoping someone in this section could help me with a C based
      API that plays videos, all different kinds of videos. I have found
      how to play .avi files, but playing other files seems to be a lot
      harder. I know you must use codec's (unless i'm mistaken) and thats
      where I get lost, but I think you have to use COM in it somewhere, but
      it's over my head, could someone please help me??
      The fact that you want to do this from a program written in C does not
      make this a C language question. You need to ask about this a group
      that supports your platform, most likely a Windows group line
      news:comp.os.ms-windows.program mer.win32.

      It's not a function provided by the C language or its standard
      library.

      --
      Jack Klein
      Home: http://JK-Technology.Com
      FAQs for
      comp.lang.c http://c-faq.com/
      comp.lang.c++ http://www.parashift.com/c++-faq-lite/
      alt.comp.lang.l earn.c-c++
      http://www.club.cc.cmu.edu/~ajo/docs/FAQ-acllc.html

        Comment

        • santosh
          #3
          Re: WinAPI videos? how to play videos beside avi?

          jon wrote:
          Hi, I was hoping someone in this section could help me with a C based
          API that plays videos, all different kinds of videos. I have found
          how to play .avi files, but playing other files seems to be a lot
          harder. I know you must use codec's (unless i'm mistaken) and thats
          where I get lost, but I think you have to use COM in it somewhere, but
          it's over my head, could someone please help me??
          >
          Thanks in advance.
          Jon
          Try using one of the multimedia libraries like GStreamer, xine etc. A
          Google search should help you far more than posting to this group,
          which has nothing to do with video.

            Comment

            Previous template Next
            Working...