[vlc-devel] Re: handling windows codecs in vlc?

[Benjamin Pracht]

On Sat, Jun 18, 2005, Osama Khan wrote :
> Hello All,
> 
> I was just wondering how does vlc handle windows codecs (wmv, wma
> etc.) from a programmer's point of view? Does it use a wrapper for the
> original windows codec DLLs or does it use reverse engineered codecs.
> Any comments (advantages/disadvantages, ease of implementation) on
> either of these or any other approach will be highly welcome. I tried
> searching the archives but didnt find anything covering this question
> in a reasonable manner.
> 

Well, that depends... The general case is that we use ffmpeg to decode
WMV/WMA. There is an exception to this. VLC can use the DMO API to
Wdecode WMV under windows. We don't have any wrapper for windows libs
Won other OS since that would violate the GPL (It only allows to link
against proprietary libs if they are part of the OS).

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BigBen

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