Introduction to Video Players

Video Players in MinecraftMediaLibrary are one of the most powerful features in the library.

In the library, we differentiate two parts of a video player. The frame callback part and the video player component part.

The frame callback acts as a callback handler from frames passed from VLC to provide the necessary dithering/setup needed to process the frame. All frame callbacks implement the FrameCallback class.

Note

Dithering is the process of downscaling certain RGB colors from a palette. There are multiple algorithms for dithering such as linear/ordered dithering and error diffusion dithering (which adds some spaces in between the dithered colors), but that is the basic idea.

The video player component acts as the video player and provides certain features such as an audio play button, a pause button, a resume button, a release button, etc. All video players extend the VideoPlayer class.

Note

A frame callback and video player must have the correct parts associated with each other. This describes the correct classes to be used with each other.

Frame Callback	Video Player
MapDataCallback	MapIntegratedPlayer
ChatCallback	ChatIntegratedPlayer
EntityCloudCallback	EntityCloudIntegratedPlayer
BlockHighlightCallback	BlockHighlightPlayer
ScoreboardCallback	ScoreboardIntegratedPlayer

Experimental Players: (work in progress, not ready for use)

Frame Callback	Video Player
	GifIntegratedPlayer
	ParallelVideoPlayer

• Map Video Players
  • Minecraft Maps in a Nutshell
    • Displaying Pixels on Maps
    • Minecraft Map Palette
    • The Power of Dithering
    • Speed and Quality of Dithering Algorithms
  • Creating a Map Callback
  • Creating a Map Video Player
• Entity Video Players
  • Entity Nametags in a Nutshell
    • Usage of Entities
    • Downsides of Entities
  • Creating an Entity Callback
  • Creating an Entity Video Player