[MPlayer-dev-eng] APE (Monkey Audio) dshow

[Roberto Togni]

On 2004.08.25 12:59, César Ramos wrote:
> Hi,
> I have an dShow codec for play APE files... In Windows play fine, but
> when I
> use in Mplayer produce this error, Why?
>
I think the dll is not a dshow codec filter, but a dshow source filter  
(a file reader, looks like .ape is also a file format), so it's not  
supported (and that's why it misses the input pin). Can somebody please  
verify with graphedit?

I still have to check everything, but looks like ape (monkeysaudio,  
http://www.monkeysaudio.com) comes with source, but license is probably  
not compatible with gpl.
The file you uploaded is make by radlight.
There is a xmms plugin (mplayer supports them), but i still haven't  
tested it, and from you bugzilla post looks like you're on windows so  
it's not useful for you.

MPlayer recognize the file as wav with formax 0x1, that's PCM, so you  
can't simply take that format in codecs.conf unless you want all pcm  
files to fail playback (the right solution is probably to add some  
detection code in demux_audio.c, like it's done for mp3 and dts). But  
that's ok for testing, and it's not the cause of your problem.

There is also another filter (DSMonkeyAudiosource) on the net, but that  
should be a source filter too.

I think they made a source filter instead of a codec to be able to  
handle the tags embedded in the file.

btw, the problem in your other mail was caused by the missing guid.

Ciao,
 Roberto