[vlc] Re: VLC and support for win32codecs (for Real Media Formats)

[Ow Mun Heng]

On Thu, 2006-04-13 at 08:38 +0200, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote:
> Le Jeudi 13 Avril 2006 07:55, Ow Mun Heng a écrit :
> > In Gentoo, there's an option for building VLC with Win32codec
> > support, but based on my experience and my checking, it doesn't seem
> > like it really is using the win32codecs package.
> 
> > Can anyone confirm if one can use win32codecs on VLC?
> 
> Support for QuickTime is broken.

That sucks :-(

>  Real Video is not using DMO.
> 
> Several people confirmed custom-compiled VLC could use win32codecs 
> worked on Debian Sid.

Mine is customed compiled. Doesn't seem to work. If you have those
Debian Sid People's contacts or uRLS, would be appreciated.

> Gentoo might be unaffected through portage, but it is also very unclear 
> whether you can distribute VLC binaries with --enable-loader, though 
> there doesn't seem to be any issue with compiling yourself.

Gentoo is a source compile distro. we don't distribute anything. :-)

> Finally, it's not necessarily a good idea to use the DLL loacer for 
> Real, as one could simply try to use the native Linux binaries from 
> Real Media in that case.

Yes. But I'm hoping to have an All-in-One and 'eat my cake too' kind of
solution for a Media Center. Currently, I have xine and mplayer working
fine but what irks me is that I can't do left/right audio switching
on-the-fly much like a <USD20 VCD Player can.

It's cramping my American-Idol-Karaoke-Wanna-Be ;-)


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