Re:How to Write a Video Player in Less Than 1000 Lines
by gruez on Monday March 07, 2016 @12:25AM
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Title is misleading. It's like writing a guide on how to instantiate a webview and calling it "how to write a web browser in less than 100 lines".
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Re:How to Write a Video Player in Less Than 1000 Lines
by slimsag on Monday March 07, 2016 @12:38AM
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Agree, and it's a pity because this tutorial looks great. A better title would be:
"Write your own video player with SDL and ffmpeg!"
Or something along those lines, anyway.
Re:How to Write a Video Player in Less Than 1000 Lines
by striking on Monday March 07, 2016 @12:49AM
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Sorry about the clickbaity (although semi-accurate) title.
I would change it, but the post got revived from yesterday, so the edit button's gone.
Is it really that bad a title, though? Few people actually write their own video decoder or display code anymore...
Re:How to Write a Video Player in Less Than 1000 Lines
by taneq on Monday March 07, 2016 @01:20AM
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It's not that bad, it's just the "how to write a ..." bit seems to imply that you're actually implementing one, not just loading a library to play one. Maybe "How to play a video in less than 1000 lines"?