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

Christian HJ Wiesner chris at matroska.org
Sat Aug 7 09:32:06 CEST 2004


Sebastian Hartte wrote:

> Oh i almost forgot,
> 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.)
> bye, Storm

This is certainly possible, but i expect it wouldnt be very easy to do, 
and the goal must be that all plugins for gstreamer are usable on all 
supported platforms, not just Windows, IMO.

ChristianHJW
matroska project admin
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