I don't know if this makes any sense but I was able to do it easily in SDL using libvlc and the dependencies were minimal.

Hello all My name is Adilson Oliveira, currently working for Canonical (of Ubuntu fame) as a technical account manager. As a way to keep my coding skills from rusting, I've decided to learn a new language, Lua. Looking for more information about the language landed me here and I am amazed by Löve. I...