[gst-devel] Call for ideas : Video and Audio sinks for Gstreamer on Windows

[Ronald S. Bultje]

On Sun, 2004-08-01 at 20:44, Sebastian Hartte wrote:
> is there some way of creating a wrapper element for DirectShow filters?
> Given the GUID of a filter it should be possible for
> an element to dynamically create all the pads (pins) and hold an
> instance of the filter internally. I suppose that could increase
> the use of gstreamer on windows dramatically since it could be used to
> play propietary file formats without some nasty
> hacked wrapper code. (Windows Media 8, 9, etc.)

Yes, the ffmpeg and ladspa wrapper plugins use that method.

Ronald