[gst-devel] Re: [vorbis-dev] Semi-off-topic ramblings

[Myers W. Carpenter]

Wim Taymans wrote:
> 
> "Myers W. Carpenter" wrote:
> 
> [SNIP] (nice comments)
> 
> > Another idea is to use
> > winelib to access the Windoze DLL's need to do this.  If you can't get
> 
> actually, how hard would it be to write a wrapper around the Windoh's
> DirectMedia pluggins so that thay would become available in GStreamer?
> I suppose you need to have a complete Windows subsystem too, not just
> the 100K plugin.

	It depends...  The mpeg4 dll is just that, a dll that encodes and
decodes mpeg4 encoded video.  If we can figure out how to talk to it (do
you know of a DLL function lister that would list the names of all the
function in a file with args and return values?  How about for .so
files?  (real has all their codec in an .so for the linux realplayer)).
	Also I wonder about the legality.  If we don't look at the header files
from an SDK and everyone downloads it from the web from the proper
people and installs this themselves I think we'll be in the clear, but
I'm pretty sure that only slept thru only normal college classses and
not an law school classes :).
	There is an example of this.  Take a look at the VQF plugin for xmms. 
I think I got the idea from that. 

	myers

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