by Jörg Burbach, homepage

license: MIT

This is a wrapper around the one-file mpeg-1-decoder pl_mpeg.h. This source also demonstrates how to (not elegantly) play a file in an imagegadget. However, audio is missing at the moment. Have to figure that out.

based on pl_mpeg.h by Dominic Szablewski, Repository on Github this code uses Big Buck Bunny by Blender Foundation, which I converted to MPEG1 Big Buck Bunny

• load from disk
• check for mpeg-file
• decode video and audio frames on demand
• get information about the video
• enable or disable video or audio
• audio is always stereo-interleaved!

• improve and optimize the code
• play audio as a test case
• use a precision timer for playback
  • like: decode frame, wait For the timer, display And already decode the Next frame
• make a Github-repo and upload it
• play file from memory

1. pull the source for pl_mpeg.h from Repository on Github

2. write a small snippet to pl_mpeg.c

#ifdef __cplusplus
extern "C" {
#endif

#define PL_MPEG_IMPLEMENTATION
#include "pl_mpeg.h"

#ifdef __cplusplus
}
#endif

3. use the terminal.app with these commands

	gcc -c -arch arm64 pl_mpeg.c -o pl_mpeg.o
	ar rcs libplmpeg.a pl_mpeg.o

4. put the resulting libplmpeg.a where you have your PureBasic-code

5. check the example!

5b. If you need to convert your movie, use ffmpeg

ffmpeg -i movie.mp4 -c:v mpeg1video -b:v 500k -c:a mp2 -b:a 64k -s 320x240 -t 30 output.mpg 

6. You can download sample-videos from https://filesamples.com/formats/mpeg

7. enjoy