VideoLib

The library gives mod authors a clean API for video playback, covering functions that the game engine does not provide on its own, such as GPU mesh caching for simple video. Other mods depend on it instead of building their own playback code. Players do not use it directly.

Playback starts from a VideoHandle, which points to a video file. The file can sit on the local disk, in a videos folder inside a resource pack, or at a location on the internet. A VideoHandleFactory, obtained from the VideoManager, creates these handles, and a mod must get a reference to the VideoManager before it can use the library. Only the video manager creates VideoPlayer instances, and each player is registered under a unique ID because of the performance cost of video playback.

A VideoPlayer's getTexture function returns a Minecraft texture identifier, which an entity renderer or any other code can draw. The texture is updated automatically with each video frame, like any other texture. The library is published as Fabric only, with a single release, 0.1.0, for 1.18.2, and the code is open source under the MIT License. Ports to other versions are not provided, and the author invites others to make them through pull requests.