al_open_video(3alleg5)

🎀 NAME 🎀

al_open_video — Allegro 5 API 💖

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include <allegro5/allegro_video.h>

ALLEGRO_VIDEO *al_open_video(char const *filename)

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

okay so bestie, al_open_video literally reads a video file for you. 🎬 It does not start playing it yet — no autoplay, no main-character entrance — it just reads the meta info so you can be nosy and query stuff like the size or the audio rate. 👀✨

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🌸 SINCE 🌸

5.1.0 — she's been serving since 5.1.0, periodt. 💜

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mwah 💋 that's the whole page, bestie. This was the Allegro reference manual, page al_open_video(3alleg5), version vibes 5.1.0 — and the footer didn't hand us a date so we're just calling it timeless, fr fr. 🫶🦋