[MPlayer-dev-eng] Working on wmv9

Arpi arpi at thot.banki.hu
Mon Sep 9 12:16:22 CEST 2002


Hi,

> > someone should try if the old wmp (which dosn't support wmo, but does
> > dshow) can play such files by auto-downloading vfw/dshow codec from m$
> > site. otherwise we have to implement a 3rd win32 interface - it takes years
> > and i doubt we're 'clever' enough to do it :(((((
> > (i have no experience in win32 hackings, nor in ms c++ structures nor in
> > windows sdk and api)
> 
> I've already discussed this with alex, there are two solutions:
>  - Implement DMO API (alex said it's simpler than DShow API)
hmm. how much simpler? is it still c++ or they did realize that c++ sux and
went beack to c ?

>  - Use Microsoft DShow wrapper, it wraps a dshow interface around DMO codecs
does such thing exists?


A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team

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