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		arcticbull on June 6, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How to Write a Video Player in Less Than 1000 Line... Not to mention you can do this on iOS in about 10 lines with AVPlayerViewController [1] Don't get me wrong, this is a cool SDL <> ffmpeg integration tutorial. [1] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/avkit/avplayerview...

FraKtus on June 6, 2020 [–]

The AVKit only plays a few codecs.

It's fine if you are in the Apple ecosystem but many formats from Windows or Linux will fail with it.

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