Bink Video Player

[handsomematt]

Black & White uses the Bink Video Codec for certain parts of the game:

• Opening Logos
• Introduction cinematic
• Tips on loading screen
• Ending cinematic

Specifically Black & White uses Bink 1 and only video encoding, no audio which will make any implementation easier.

There are several ways to implement the video encoder each with pros and cons:

• Use binkw32.dll distributed with the game with headers. (wouldn't work across platforms and potentially problematic with ABI)
• Use ffmpeg or libav to decode the video. (adds a huge dependency of ffmpeg for 1 video type)
• Copy the implementation from ffmpeg / libav - several other FOSS games have done this, the best example I've come across is https://github.com/gemrb/gemrb/tree/master/gemrb/plugins/BIKPlayer

[handsomematt]

Implemented in 894240d03be4786aa82f49159ca8adacfac9d906

[handsomematt]

Removed because of poor implementation, a much better one to base off would be: https://github.com/scummvm/scummvm/blob/master/video/bink_decoder.cpp

[mirh]

That seems to be a fork of this in turn https://github.com/xoreos/xoreos/blob/master/src/video/bink.cpp