Blitz Max, Linux & Playing Mpegs

Hi All,

Been away for a while due to work.

I'm looking at project where I need to play mpegs on an embedded motherboard, linux OS, using Blitz Max.

Can it do this?

Best Regards,

Have Max make calls to MPlayer, that should do it, I would think.

MPLayer can be downloaded from their webpage http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/news.html

I have used it a while ago where I just used the command line calls to start MPLayer and it plays just about anything out there.

If I remember correctly you can use this commandline keyword "-wid" followed by the handle of you graphics context to embed it directly into your application.

MPlayer is made first and foremost with linux in mind, its even the only platform it offers fully working tv tuner functionality.

Or there's the ffmpeg library.
There's an "avbin" module which demonstrates playing video in BlitzMax. Plays Big Buck Bunny (avi/mpeg/ogg) fine, on Linux. Still needs some work.

Brucey, you haven't made a module for gstreamer yet?! I'm shocked :P

Not as shocked as I am ;-)

Thanks for all the replies, sounds like it will work.