[mythtv-users] Re: mythtv-users Digest, Vol 4, Issue 79

[adam i. howard]

So it seems that it what would benefit us the most if the mplayer folks
were to encapsulate all of their codec support into library "wrappers",
so that we've got libwma, libquicktime, etc. Mplayer will use
libdvdread/libdvdcss to play DVDs, so we'd just need to convince them
to do the same sort of thing with all the other dozens of codecs they
support ;)

--- mythtv-users-request at snowman.net wrote:
> Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 09:00:49 -0400
> From: "Joseph A. Caputo" <jcaputo1 at comcast.net>
> Subject: RE: [mythtv-users] MythMusic is working
> 
> No reason except that no one has written a WMA decoder for MythMusic,
> and I
> don't know if there's an open source WMA decoding library, other than
> whatever is built into mplayer.  You can't just "use the same codecs"
> that
> mplayer uses; it's not a development library/toolkit like libmp3lame,
> libogg
> or libvorbis, so you can't link to it.  You'd have to actually lift
> parts of
> the mplayer codebase & bring it into the Myth tree, which is always a
> hassle
> as it has to then be periodically re-synched from the main mplayer
> source
> tree.
> 
> Not saying it's impossible, just a PITA.
> 
> -JAC