WPL or Windows Playback Library is a small C++ library to play video files inside a normal window on the Win32 operating system. I built it as having an intro video in many of my OpenGL projects was something I wanted to have. The library just wraps DirectShow and handles the painting of the window for the user. It has been used in my projects successfully and I have put it here if others are curious.

// Create a player & open a file
VideoPlayer videoPlayer;
videoPlayer.openVideo("demo.wmv");

// Set player state
videoPlayer.pause();
videoPlayer.stop();
videoPlayer.play();

// Notify the player to re render the window
videoPlayer.updateVideoWindow();
videoPlayer.repaint();

// State check functions
videoPlayer.hasFinished();
videoPlayer.hasVideo();

• Load AVI/WMV Video Files
• DirectX based drawing
• The ability to pause, stop and resume Videos.
• Tell when a video has finished.

• Adjust the playback speed.
• Disable and control audio.
• Set drawing region for window.
• Port project to CMake

Apache 2.0