Playing movies, pmf, mpeg, avi, mov is there a way?

[Ghoti]

Hi,

Are there any programs/codes that can be used in a game to render an intro movie or cutscenes that are not under GPL license? I have seen alot of threads about pmf renderers and also of the pmp playbakc only that one is under gpl if i am not mistaken.

Also are there any libs for doing the same only as background animations? so that other stuff can also be rendered to the screen.

i now do animations using a number of lng files, rendering them with in interval after each other. I have read something about MNG, is there an size decrease when i make an MNG with 10 png instead of just using the 10 pngs as animation?