Playing a Video on mac and win32

cocos2d-x
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Hello,

I need to play a video on mac and win32. There is no out of the box solution for this.

For mac I tried using AVPlayer. Here is my code

    NSString *videoFilePath = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource: @"res/bowie" ofType: @"mov"];
    NSURL *videoFileURL = [NSURL fileURLWithPath: videoFilePath];
    AVPlayer *player = [[AVPlayer alloc] initWithURL: videoFileURL];
    AVPlayerLayer *playerLayer = [AVPlayerLayer playerLayerWithPlayer: player];

    NSWindow* nsWindow = Director::getInstance()->getOpenGLView()->getCocoaWindow();
    NSView* view = nsWindow.contentView;
    playerLayer.frame = view.frame;
    [view.layer addSublayer: playerLayer];

    [playerLayer setNeedsDisplay];
    [player play];

This seems to play the sound but I am unable to see anything.
Does any have any idea about this?

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No idea but atleast you will find solution for win32 in this forum.

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We have a VideoPlayer class that I believe works on all platforms, but I have never tested it on anything but ios and android:

http://www.cocos2d-x.org/docs/api-ref/cplusplus/v3x/d5/d18/classcocos2d_1_1experimental_1_1ui_1_1_video_player.html#details

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Thats only for ios and android.

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Could you use FFMPEG directly? Although it looks like that might be a bit of work…

Edit: maybe Gstreamer? https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/

Is GStreamer available for platforms other than Linux?

Yes, GStreamer is a cross-platform multimedia framework that works on all major 
operating systems, including but not limited to Linux, Android, iOS, macOS, Windows, 
and *BSD, and there are official SDK binary packages for Android, iOS, macOS and 
Windows made available with every GStreamer release.
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I spent a few days on integrating ffmpeg and gave up.

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I used to have some code I used to play videos on a few platforms using FFMPEG and libavcodec and libavformat but I’m not sure what drive it is on. Why doesn’t an easier solution exist these days…

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I thought the same. there are no easy solution for such a common task. And I couldn’t find any test projects for ffmpeg either.

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using Avplayer for Mac is pretty straight forward. But I’m guessing its not that compatible with glfw. I’ll do some research on it tomorrow and i’ll update you if I find something.

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Cool, I’d like to know and maybe I can help somehow.

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you integrated ffmpeg with cocos2d-x?

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no, I wrote the code myself for a tech demo I wrote maybe 5 years ago, just before I started with Cocos officially.

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So no one has any idea on how to play a video on mac or windows?

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I want to use FFMpeg or libVLC with cocos2d-x.

need some days.

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I did manage to play video on both mac and windows. Using AVKit for mac and MediaPlayer for windows.
But I’m not sure if those were the best options.

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@yinjimmy wait does this mean you are going to add FFMpeg in sdkbox? :smiley: :smiley: :smiley:

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Will not be included in SDKBox, personal development.

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If anyone is looking for a solution for mac… This worked for me.

    #include <AVKit/AVKit.h>

   _fileName = videoPath;
    NSWindow* nsWindow = Director::getInstance()->getOpenGLView()->getCocoaWindow();
    NSView* view = nsWindow.contentView;
    
    NSString *str = [NSString stringWithCString:videoPath.c_str()
                                       encoding:[NSString defaultCStringEncoding]];
    NSURL *videoFileURL = [NSURL fileURLWithPath: str];
    avPlayer = [[AVPlayer alloc] initWithURL:videoFileURL];
    AVPlayerLayer *playerLayer = [AVPlayerLayer playerLayerWithPlayer: avPlayer];
    [containerView setWantsLayer:YES];
    
    playerLayer.frame = view.frame;
    [containerView.layer addSublayer: playerLayer];
    [playerLayer setVideoGravity: AVLayerVideoGravityResizeAspect];
    [playerLayer setNeedsDisplay];
    
    [containerView needsDisplay];
    [view addSubview:containerView];

And for win32 I used
https://184.169.198.12/t/simple-to-use-ccvideomanager-for-win32-win8-1-and-win10-apps-needs-some-fixing-though/30187

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bilalmirza – Does your Mac code really work? I’m having trouble with it. Given that it’s running in a cocos2d-x scene, where do you get the value for “containerView”?

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hey,

I think i have all the files here. https://github.com/Bilalmirza

Thanks