[MPlayer-cygwin] Using third-party MPEG decoders

[Joey Parrish]

On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 02:34:01PM -0500, Chhaya, Harshal wrote:
> It is very likely that I am not even asking the right questions.
> I found out about DxVA and have been trying to figure out how to
> use it. I was hoping that the MPEG decoders I mentioned had some
> standard interface and I could tell mplayer to use one of them
> instead of the default. Essentially I was hoping to switch out the
> default MPEG decoder library with one of these.
> 
> One piece of information I found since I asked my question 
> yesterday is that the Windows decoders I mentioned are all 
> DirectShow decoders and not DMO decoders. I don't know if 
> that means something to you all and if that helps answer the
> 'can mplayer use it?' question.

MPlayer can load and make use of many directshow dll codecs.  But that's
something I can't help you with.

--Joey

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