[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] fix for issue with VSSH codec

[adland123]

> Just tried some of the demo clips available at
> <http://www.vsofts.com/h264/videoclips.html
> and none of them
> produced a picture, just a black display.  Should it have worked?
> (I'm using mplayer 1.0pre7 and my binary codec package is
> essential-20050412.tar.bz2.)

It was broken for me as well.

deleted old vssh codecs 
vssh264.dll vssh264core.dll,vssh264dec.dll (probably no longer needed)

edit  in mplayer build dir etc/codecs.conf
./configure
make 
test samples (all types seemed to playback)

md5sum  
881c86b65b44d8033575a402a2aa1ab1  vsshdsd.dll

--- main/etc/codecs.conf        2005-04-25 03:26:14.000000000 -0400
+++ updated/etc/codecs.conf     2005-05-03 10:06:53.000000000 -0400
 <at>  <at>  -1610,9 +1610,10  <at>  <at> 
   info "VSS H.264"
   status working
   fourcc VSSH
-  driver vfw
-  dll "vssh264.dll" ; need also vssh264core.dll, vssh264dec.dll
-  out BGR24 flip
+  driver dshow
+  dll "vsshdsd.dll"
+ guid 0x6931C7e7, 0x75b7, 0x4729, 0xa1, 0x53, 0xa8, 0xad, 0x99, 0xbd, 0xf7, 0x0b
+  out YV12

 videocodec vsswlt
   info "VSS Wavelet Video Codec"