al_open_video(3)

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version 5.2.11.3 · 3 versions
, in arch rolling

🌸 NAME 🌸

okay so bestie, welcome to the al_open_video(3) page from the Library Functions Manual — that's the Allegro reference manual, Allegro 5 API edition, and it's literally the home of:

  • al_open_video — Allegro 5 API. Short, sweet, iconic. 💅

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

#include <allegro5/allegro_video.h>

ALLEGRO_VIDEO *al_open_video(char const *filename)

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

So this one reads a video file. That's the main character move: it does not start playing yet — no cap — it just reads the meta info so you can query e.g. the size or audio rate. 🎬💖

👑 SINCE 👑

5.1.0 — that's when this icon showed up, periodt. ⭐

cute sign-off: that's the Allegro reference manual, page al_open_video(3) — and the footer doesn't list a date or extra version line on this one, so I'm not inventing one, bestie. 🫶💜

📦 where this page comes from
  • arch rolling: allegro 5.2.11.3-2 · Zlib AND BSD-3-Clause AND OFL-1.1 AND LicenseRef-Custom
  • 💖 girlified by deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 on : a language model's rewrite of the original, under its terms