Simple frame by frame video decoder library

Question

I\'m looking for a simple c/c++ lib that would allow to extract the first frame of a video as a uchar array. And have a simple fonction to access the next one.

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Answer 1

Use DirectShow. Here's an article: http://www.codeproject.com/KB/audio-video/framegrabber.aspx There are DirectShow 'add-ons' to decode different video formats. Here's one of the sites where you can grab free DirectShow filter packs to decode some common formats that are not directly supported by DirectShow: http://www.free-codecs.com/download/DirectShow_FilterPack.htm