[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] Winamp input plugin support (e.g., mp3pro)

[Jörg Walter]

Hi!

I've written an audio decoder plugin which loads winamp input plugins. This 
finally allows you to listen decently to those pesky internet radios who 
still don't get that mp3pro is a bad choice.

Get it at http://cvs.garni.ch/viewcvs/MPlayer-Winamp/
(cvs pserver not working, sorry. something is broken.)

I've in fact only tested it with Thomson's mp3pro winamp plugin, nothing else.
But it works great - didn't encounter any real problems, it's maybe a litle 
slow when loading the plugin.

It works similar to the xmms-winamp plugin, spawning a subprocess and 
communicating with it via pipes. This means you need a full wine installation 
with devel files, and that's why loading it is slow. This was the easiest 
alternative, as Winamp-Plugins are always using multithreading and are doing 
their own file I/O- you can't feed them data through direct calls or 
callbacks, they are doing their own file open/socket stuff. In this plugin, 
the subprocess plays from a named pipe created by the parent process.

I do not plan to update this code, as it does it's job for me: play internet 
streams nicely. But if you want to include it, I'd gladly assist if problems 
arise.

P.S.: I don't want to announce it on -users, as building the plugin is not for 
the uninitiated. Wine is a little picky in who is it's friend.

-- 
CU
  Joerg

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