Video anyone?

[solecize]

Is anyone displaying or controlling video or image sequences for intro graphics or story line? I couldn't find anything on video specifically, but other methods of sequencing images would work. Displaying a series of JPEGs could work, but might get heavy if you did too many sequences.

[Robin]

love.video is highly anticipated, but there is one tiny problem: it has to be written. And such a thing is far from trivial.

The best solution is to “animate” images, lines, circles, etc., just like in normal game play.

[Chief]

The best solution is to “animate” images, lines, circles, etc., just like in normal game play.

Takes less space too (we're talking tens - maybe hundreds - of MBs)

[thelinx]

One way I could see video implemented is by splitting the video frames into PNG files, which has been optimized with some kind of difference method, so only pixels that have changed are actually in the image.

Then, when playing a video, with a custom love.run, you could skip the love.graphics.clear() command and just draw the next video frame over the previous frames, and it would work like that.

[vrld]

One way I could see video implemented is by splitting the video frames into PNG files, which has been optimized with some kind of difference method, so only pixels that have changed are actually in the image.

So basically you would like to emulate a video codec?

[thelinx]

I'm working on a concept version.

[bartoleo]

I Think that a player (with one format/codec only) could be an interesting feature.
I think that using a PNG-frame per frame is crude solution
Sdl+Mpeg I found this:
http://www.happypenguin.org/show?SDL%20MPEG%20Library

[solecize]

any common wavelet compressed codec would be great- however I have no idea what that entails on the engine side.