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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

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 >.>

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

Indeed that's great news

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.