History: Video Overview

            !Video Plugin Overview
The Ogre library does not provide any video decoding internally. However, there are a few plugins written for Ogre that allow you to decode various codecs into an Ogre texture. In fact, there are three plugins: Theora, Directshow and FFmpeg.

!!Theora Plugin (Win32/Linux)
This is the most stable/flexible plugin. Code repository last updated in 2010. ((TheoraVideoPlugin|Theora Video Plugin))

!!Directshow Plugin (Win32)
This plugin has been developed using Directshow libraries, that's why is only available for Windows platforms. This plugin allows to use a video file as texture for a material, being able to play near any file that can be played in Windows Media Player.

You can find the DirectShow plugin in ogreaddons/videoplugin. More information here: ((DirectShowVMR9 Plugin)).

!!FFmpeg Plugin (Win32/Linux/Mac)
Be aware, FFmpeg contains many codecs (mpeg1 & 2, mp3, divx, etc), some of which are patented and may be risky to use with out first paying royalty use rights.

The latest FFmpeg video player for Ogre can be found at: [https://github.com/matthieu-ft/ogre-ffmpeg-videoplayer]. It has been tested on Win32, Mac and Linux, but probably works on other platforms too.

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Alias: (alias(VideoPlugin))