how can watch youtube flv in c++ application ?

Question

hello all im using c++ to get you-tube video links , but now i like to be able to play team (stream ) in my application , using c++ wxwidgets cross platform what option do i have ?

Answer 1

Look at existing video players like mplayer or vlc that can both play flv files. It you want a something a a somewhat lower level, Qt::media supports Gstream that supports flv. However this might go against what you want as you use wxwidgets.

Then, you can directly look into integrating GStreamer in your app.

Answer 2

After some searching in google I believe there isn't something pre-made in C++ that will match WxWidgets but you should be able to find a decoder and use it's API.

Answer 3

The wxMediaCtrl class in wxWidgets is used to play video:

http://docs.wxwidgets.org/stable/wx_wxmediactrl.html

http://docs.wxwidgets.org/trunk/classwx_media_ctrl.html

On MacOS X and Windows wxMediaCtrl uses the native backend, and on Linux GStreamer. I don't know if the native backends on the first two support flv.

Answer 4

FFMPEG supports demuxing and decoding of the FLV format (among others), and is the best implementation I know of besides Flash itself. It's relatively easy to use, and it's used by all of the software others have suggested for decoding of Flash Video.