That's when Bink came out to the rescue with a very flexible and working library, making it easy to developers to display videos in windows or render into textures. This of course was prone to errors, and added hundreds of programmers hours in development and debugging time that maybe wasn't that critical for the game. Years ago, deciding to add video playback to a crossplatform game engine was a nightmare because you had to study the API for each platform, figure out the format that they use, test it and trying to configure the optimum ratio between video quality and video size (this was quite important when games were played directly from the game disc). Bink has been the standard for video in video games since it was published due to its excelent performance, support and reliability.
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