Mailing List Archive: Re: mythtv-users Digest, Vol 4, Issue 79

Re: mythtv-users Digest, Vol 4, Issue 79

May 30, 2003, 9:23 AM

Post #1 of 3 (986 views)

So it seems that it what would benefit us the most if the mplayer folks
were to encapsulate all of their codec support into library "wrappers",
so that we've got libwma, libquicktime, etc. Mplayer will use
libdvdread/libdvdcss to play DVDs, so we'd just need to convince them
to do the same sort of thing with all the other dozens of codecs they
support ;)

--- mythtv-users-request@snowman.net wrote:
> Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 09:00:49 -0400
> From: "Joseph A. Caputo" <jcaputo1@comcast.net>
> Subject: RE: [mythtv-users] MythMusic is working
>
> No reason except that no one has written a WMA decoder for MythMusic,
> and I
> don't know if there's an open source WMA decoding library, other than
> whatever is built into mplayer. You can't just "use the same codecs"
> that
> mplayer uses; it's not a development library/toolkit like libmp3lame,
> libogg
> or libvorbis, so you can't link to it. You'd have to actually lift
> parts of
> the mplayer codebase & bring it into the Myth tree, which is always a
> hassle
> as it has to then be periodically re-synched from the main mplayer
> source
> tree.
>
> Not saying it's impossible, just a PITA.
>
> -JAC

RE: Re: mythtv-users Digest, Vol 4, Issue 79 [ In reply to ]

jcaputo1 at comcast

May 30, 2003, 9:35 AM

Post #2 of 3 (950 views)

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Yes, but then you have to either:

(a) Convince Isaac to introduce an external dependency on the mplayer libs

or

(b) Convince Isaac to mirror the mplayer libs source inside the Myth source
tree, similar to the way it's currently done with libavifile (I think)

My money would be on (b), if anything. Even there, I really can't say how
likely that would be to fly. Of coure, it's all moot if (very likely) no
one from MPlayer feels like extracting the codecs out into a library with a
public API.

Isaac, care to comment?

-JAC

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces@snowman.net
> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces@snowman.net]On Behalf Of adam i. howard
> Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 12:23 PM
> To: mythtv-users@snowman.net
> Subject: [mythtv-users] Re: mythtv-users Digest, Vol 4, Issue 79
>
>
> So it seems that it what would benefit us the most if the mplayer folks
> were to encapsulate all of their codec support into library "wrappers",
> so that we've got libwma, libquicktime, etc. Mplayer will use
> libdvdread/libdvdcss to play DVDs, so we'd just need to convince them
> to do the same sort of thing with all the other dozens of codecs they
> support ;)
>

Re: Re: mythtv-users Digest, Vol 4, Issue 79 [ In reply to ]

ijr at po

May 30, 2003, 10:05 AM

Post #3 of 3 (958 views)

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On Friday 30 May 2003 12:35 pm, Joseph A. Caputo wrote:
> Yes, but then you have to either:
>
> (a) Convince Isaac to introduce an external dependency on the mplayer libs
>
> or
>
> (b) Convince Isaac to mirror the mplayer libs source inside the Myth source
> tree, similar to the way it's currently done with libavifile (I think)
>
> My money would be on (b), if anything. Even there, I really can't say how
> likely that would be to fly. Of coure, it's all moot if (very likely) no
> one from MPlayer feels like extracting the codecs out into a library with a
> public API.
>
> Isaac, care to comment?

mplayer has a 3000 line main(). 'nuff said.

Isaac