MPEG-1
Video decoder, MP2
Audio decoder and MPEG-PS
Demuxer in pure Go.
This is a simple way to get video playback into your app or game.
MPEG-1
is an old and inefficient codec, but it is still good enough for many use cases. The quality and compression ratio still holds up surprisingly well.
Decoding costs very little CPU time compared to modern video formats. All patents related to MPEG-1
and MP2
have expired, so it is entirely free now.
Ebitengine
, also check better, accelerated example
raylib
with YUV->RGB conversion done on CPUSDL2
with accelerated YUV->RGB conversionWebGL
and WebAudio
, see live example
X11/XVideo
and OSS
, acceleratedMost MPEG-PS (.mpg
) files containing MPEG-1 video (mpeg1video
) and MPEG-1 Audio Layer II (mp2
) streams should work.
Note that .mpg
files can also contain MPEG-2 video, which this library does not support.
You can encode video in a suitable format with FFmpeg
:
ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -c:v mpeg1video -q:v 16 -c:a mp2 -format mpeg output.mpg
-q:v
sets a fixed video quality with a variable bitrate, where 0
is the highest.
You can use -b:v
to set a fixed bitrate instead; e.g. -b:v 2000k
for 2000 kbit/s.
Refer to the FFmpeg documentation for more details.