Re: [pygame] SDL_ffmpeg vs ffmpeg

[Lenard Lindstrom <len-l@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Tyler,

If licensing permits, an existing ffplay could be included with Pygame 
on Windows. It would likely support more codecs than anything I would 
build. For some reason my first build attempt omitted ffplay.

Lenard

Tyler Laing wrote:
> Lenard, Rene, and anyone else that is concerned, I was considering 
> that ffplay could be distributed as a statically built executable, so 
> the movie module can, in the worst case scenario, fall back on a 
> working movie player that it knows about, and exactly where it is 
> located. This lessens the need for the user to have vlc, mplayer, or 
> any other video player installed.
>
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