Build your own Media Player with C Language in less than 1000 lines!! See how!
If you are familiar with libraries used to create video applications, then ffmpeg will probably be familiar to you. This amazing general-purpose library performs complex video processing tasks such as decoding, encoding, demuxing, and muxing. Written in C, this library decodes most codecs.
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If you want to get started with ffmpeg, there isn't much information available online. In this article, we'll present you with a tutorial we found on dranger.com that borrows a C program written by Martin Böhme and uses it to develop a working video player.
To get the video and audio output of the media file, SDL has been used since it is a good cross-platform media library used in many video games and media software. To create the programs that will be taught in the tutorial, you will need to download SDL development libraries to your system and install them.
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So with some multimedia basics, you'll be in a good place to start building your own media player. While the program doesn't create a player that satisfies all your multimedia playback needs, it's a good idea to see it as a way to learn more and discover opportunities to improve the program.
Click here to start the tutorial. On each page, there is a C file that you can download, and watch.
