Open-Source Bink

[ddb174]

Unexpectedly, I saw that the version of FFmpeg released earlier this month said it had Bink support. I downloaded and ran it, and it ran the Uru .bik files perfectly! And it only used about 140-150% as much CPU time as the official bink player!

This also means that VLC will support Bink in the not-too-distant future as well!

Anyway, it's some good news for Open-source Plasma, should *that* ever happen :P

[Paradox]

woah, that is awesome news! Not just for Uru, but for anyone wanting to view .bik files without using command-line tools

Although I'm not entirely sure I'd want Uru to depend on something as massive as ffmpeg solely for Bink support >.>

[Branan]

fortunately, as long as OSMO and FFMPEG have compatible licenses, we could just rip the bink code and embed it in OSMO.

[diafero]

Indeed that's great news

[ddb174]

Most of the new stuff in ffmpeg is LGPL, I believe. So it would be fine in a .dll file. You can configure ffmpeg to not compile in a bunch of stuff, and even configure it to disclude all non-lgpl stuff, but I don't know if that extends to the level of disabling many codecs. I guess we could easily take a look if we ever get to the point where it matters.