[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] Supporting DMO decoder from WMP11, multithreaded WMV3/VC1 decoding

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 11:35:52AM -0500, compn wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Jan 2009 09:45:35 +0800, Zhou Zongyi wrote:
> >Currently with ffmpeg's single-threaded wmv3/vc1 decoder MPlayer cannot smoothly play 20Mbps+ VC1 from HDDVD/Bluray. This patch allow mplayer to use WMP11's multi-threaded DMO decoder for WMV1/WMV2/WMV3/VC1. One needs to install WMP11 or just copy wmvdecod.dll to your C:\windows\system32 or codec path. 
> >
> >+  dll "wmvdecod.dll"  
> 
> could someone upload this dll?
> so we could include it in the codec packs...
> 
> are the other new codecs multithreaded or faster? benchmarks anyone?

Seems pointless to me, multithreading will not work on Linux and on
Windows MPlayer should be able to use the installed versions...