elasota / lwmovie

A lightweight library for playing videos.

lwmovie

lwmovie is an audio/video decoding library intended for use by games, embedded systems, and other multimedia applications.

The primary goal of the project is easy implementation, with a simple API, patent-free codecs, and a very permissive license, while also being flexible and powerful enough to accomodate for a variety of use cases.

Some of its advantages:

###Flexible:###

• Integrates with host application thread pooling.
• Uses a Zlib-like streaming IO model with readahead hints.
• Notification-based sound synchronization.
• Modular design allows decode steps to be swapped out.
• Optional simplified API layer ("Cake") to streamline usage in the most common use cases.

###Powerful:###

• SSE, SSE2, and SSE 4.1 optimized DSP.
• Supports GPU decoding using D3D11 on most D3D10-capable hardware.
• Heavily threadable, almost all of the decode process can be executed in parallel and scales very well with thread count.
• Uses established codecs with existing high-quality encoders (MPEG video, CELT audio, and MPEG Layer II audio).

###Permissive:###

• All components are under very permissive MIT/BSD-like licenses.
• Uses only codecs that are free of any known patent restrictions or are under royalty-free licenses.