[MPlayer-dev-eng] Working on wmv9

[Gianluigi Tiesi]

On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 12:16:22PM +0200, Arpi wrote:
> 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?
yes qasf.dll is a ds filter (ASF Reader) but needs WMVCORE.DLL (2mb)
the whole asf need to be passed to it. Mplayer should implement a sort of ds graph.
In windows:
asfreader->dmo wmv decoder->videorender
        |->dmo wma decoder->audiorender

> 
> 
> A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team
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