[gst-devel] Re: Historic moment : MKV/MKA playback on Windows, using Gstreamer (Ixion) !!

[Michal Benes]

Hi folks,

	unfortunately, I do not work on the Windows port anymore. Therefore,
our web page can be somewhat outdated. But there is an active community
(one of the most active developers is Sebastien Moutte) among GStreamer
community pushing the work further. I know they did very much since my
attempts but I do not know if anybody is working on a GUI player. I
think this is a pity, precompiled binaries for Windows with GUI player
could attract many new GStreamer developers from Windows world.

	Michal

Christian HJ Wiesner píše v Ne 23. 04. 2006 v 02:41 +0200:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> just out of curiosity i was testing Michal Benes latest win32 mingw 
> compile of gstreamer today, as a binary in his Ixion player on 
> http://gstreamer.xeris.cz , and using his DirectX sinks.
> 
> Here is what i could play fine (with almost 100% CPU, but working ) :
> 
> MKA with Vorbis, MP3 ; not supported : AAC 5.1, FLAC, Wavpack
> MKV with MPEG4V2, DivX, XviD, h.264 (slow) ; not suported : Realvideo
> 
> Unfortunately i had no other test files on my laptop, but this is 
> exciting !! Imagine a world without Microsoft DirectShow !!! Think of a 
> powerful, true x-platform media player based on Gstreamer !
> 
> Michal, congratulations. The player is still pretty unstable, as you are 
> certainly aware, but this is definitely a very good start ! Please keep 
> us in the loop, should you require more alpha testing.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Christian
> matroska project admin
> 
> P.S. A readme in the ZIP, that all the packages have to be in c:\program 
> files\ would be nice also ;) .... i found it on the homepage, but too 
> late :)