How to Write a Video Player in Less Than 1000 Lines

Re:How to Write a Video Player in Less Than 1000 Lines by mateuszf on Monday March 07, 2016 @06:06AM (#11238231)

> The problem is not limited to this article. For example in the Windows demo-scene world, it's trivial to do 4k/64k demos by using all the DirectX libraries available in the OS. So that the size of the actual demo is completely relevant since you benefit from massive system libraries.

But all developers still have the same size limit and access to the same apis. Which means that creative competition is totally possible.

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Re:How to Write a Video Player in Less Than 1000 Lines by ekianjo on Monday March 07, 2016 @09:57AM (#11239205)

Yes. But what I mean is, people look at some demos and say "wow this only fits into 4k", and they completely forget that these demos rely on hundred of Mbs of system libraries in the first place.

But sure, comparing between 4k demos is possible, but as DirectX evolves the comparison becomes unfair, since the system libraries add more functionalities over time.

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Re:How to Write a Video Player in Less Than 1000 Lines by mateuszf on Tuesday March 08, 2016 @03:54AM (#11244180)

That's true. I still remember the times where all you had was api to set individual pixels in 64Kb memory area. Yet people were able to make nice effects even using 256 bytes of assembly code.

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