Prototype required.

[Mujtaba Hasni]

Marcus wants a Prototype for the play back of an
mpeg video file. The goal is to make a program like
the following work:

function play_movie
var pligame:Surface screen
var pligame:Event event
var pligame:Movie

pligame init #initialize SDL.

#Load mpeg file stream
movie := pligame:movie:Load "mympeg.mpg"

#Set screen size to movie size.
var Int w := movie:get_width
var Int h  := movie:get_height
screen := pligame:display:set_mode w h
#default bit-depth, eg for 16-bit: set_mode w h 16

var Int movie_length := movie:get_length
console "Movie is  " movie_length  "seconds long." eol

movie:set_display screen  #draw to screen
movie:play(0) # 0 infinte loop

  Cbool done := false
  while not done
    while event:poll
      eif event:get(QUIT) # User Closes window
        done := true
     movie:stop
   pligame quit
  #end play_movie

play_movie # execute play_movie

[Mujtaba Hasni]

here's a link to the .pli file. Forums don't
perserve indents.

http://pligame.sf.net/files/mympeg.pli

[Ken Seto]

SMPEG is done in c++, however, it comes with a C interface also.  I'm now writting the wrapper for it, should I use the C interface?  or stick with C++. (the C interface seems to have less control, but I am not really sure)  Let me hear your comments. Thanks.

[Ken Seto]

nevermind what i said early, pliant can own create interfaces to external C libraries, not C++.

ken

[Mujtaba Hasni]

If SMPEG has a C interface, then its fine. I have yet
to take a look at it myself. We only need to wrap
eneough of SDL and SMPEG to make the code
snipped (or something very close to it) to work.

Could you give me a code snippet of what a program
like I described above would look like in C? What are
the essential C functions for loading a clip, attaching
it to a surface and begin playback?