[MPlayer-dev-eng] Working on wmv9

[Gianluigi Tiesi]

On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 04:44:13PM +0200, Arpi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > > >  - 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)
> 
> ehh we don't need .asf reader, but audio and video _decoder_
hmm micro$oft has a strange policy.
direct media obejects connect ONLY to their asf reader
Also to connect the "encode engine" the windows application need to
"authenticate" itself with a key. (Yes you cannot use the encoder into an app
in you don't have the license).

> 
> > 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
> 
> so we're back to the original problem - great...

Maybe Micro$oft want to drop out old arch to deny other programs to use their files :( 

Btw I don't need to see video encoded with microcrap macroblock encoder, and you?
If Micro$soft want this..

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Gianluigi Tiesi
EDP Project Leader
NetFarm S.r.l.
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