[MPlayer-cygwin] Using third-party MPEG decoders

[Sascha Sommer]

On Tuesday 05 October 2004 20:17, Joey Parrish wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 02:34:01PM -0500, Chhaya, Harshal wrote:
> > It is very likely that I am not even asking the right questions.
> > I found out about DxVA and have been trying to figure out how to
> > use it. I was hoping that the MPEG decoders I mentioned had some
> > standard interface and I could tell mplayer to use one of them
> > instead of the default. Essentially I was hoping to switch out the
> > default MPEG decoder library with one of these.
> >
> > One piece of information I found since I asked my question
> > yesterday is that the Windows decoders I mentioned are all
> > DirectShow decoders and not DMO decoders. I don't know if
> > that means something to you all and if that helps answer the
> > 'can mplayer use it?' question.
>
> MPlayer can load and make use of many directshow dll codecs.  But that's
> something I can't help you with.
>

I don't know how these work, but I thought it will directly display the 
decoded picture, in this case they can't be used by MPlayer. If we could
find one of these dlls with the neccessary info on the ftp, maybe we could 
tell then what they are really doing.

Sascha