[MPlayer-dev-eng] An audio filter for MPlayer to use Winamp DSP plugins

[Stanley]

Rich Felker wrote:

>On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 12:23:54PM +0800, Stanley wrote:
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>>Rich Felker wrote:
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>>>On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 10:38:43AM +0800, Stanley wrote:
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>>>>I'm a bit confusing during my attempt to use win32 loader to load winamp 
>>>>DSP plugins. Can win32 loader handle Win32 GUI-related API calls? If 
>>>>not, then it might be diffucult to implement, as winamp DSP plugins 
>>>>usually come with a Windows GUI.
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>>>No, of course it can't handle them. How could it? You might be able to
>>>redirect them to no-op, but I don't know if the plugins would work or
>>>be usable without their stupid config guis..
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>>>Rich
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>>It seems that nothing can handle Win32 GUI APIs under Linux except for 
>>wine. In this case, some (or many)
>>DSP plugins who bind their DSP functions to responses of GUI APIs will 
>>fail to work. And poping-up their
>>configuration window is also impossible. :-(
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>The problem is much more fundamental: mplayer does not (necessarily)
>have a gui, and it's not acceptable (or possible, with the flow of
>execution) for audio filters to popup windows for configuration. This
>is a classic case of misdesign on windows. IMO you're best to drop any
>hope of supporting this junk and just rewrite whatever filter you
>want.
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>Rich
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No matter what u called those plugins, junk or anything else, Winamp 
plugins are very huge resources and some of which are excellent work. 
Poping up a configuration window isn't a must as MPlayer mostly doesn't 
come with a GUI, actually configuration can be done by modifying 
plugins.ini file. I myself is enjoying this wonderful feature right now 
with enhanced the audio effects done by Winamp plugins.