Playing video in a Golang game

• Pixel

  15 4,403 3.9 Go

  A hand-crafted 2D game library in Go

In videogames, we often need to show the player beautiful cinematics, either for ending or in the middle of the playthrough. To do it, we need to somehow load video frames and render them on the screen. Here's how to do that using Pixel game library and goav, Golang bindings for FFmpeg.

• goav

  2 2,057 0.0 Go

  Golang bindings for FFmpeg (This repository is no longer maintained)

Now we need to obtain frames from the video stream of the file. goav provides an example code on how to do that. To make it work with Pixel game library, we need to set the frame decoding format to avcodec.AV_PIX_FMT_RGBA which is used by Pixel.

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• Ebiten

  53 9,831 9.8 Go

  Ebitengine - A dead simple 2D game engine for Go

This method can be adapted for other Golang game engines like Ebiten if you know the way to convert RGBA bytes to the appropriate form.

• pixel-video

  1 4 0.0 Go

  A demo of playing video using Pixel game library.

Enjoy the full source code.

Suggest a related project