[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] Supporting DMO decoder from WMP11, multithreaded WMV3/VC1 decoding

[compn]

On Mon, 12 Jan 2009 17:43:16 +0100, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
>On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 11:35:52AM -0500, compn wrote:
>> On Mon, 12 Jan 2009 09:45:35 +0800, Zhou Zongyi wrote:
>> >Currently with ffmpeg's single-threaded wmv3/vc1 decoder MPlayer cannot smoothly play 20Mbps+ VC1 from HDDVD/Bluray. This patch allow mplayer to use WMP11's multi-threaded DMO decoder for WMV1/WMV2/WMV3/VC1. One needs to install WMP11 or just copy wmvdecod.dll to your C:\windows\system32 or codec path. 
>> >
>> >+  dll "wmvdecod.dll"  
>> 
>> could someone upload this dll?
>> so we could include it in the codec packs...
>> 
>> are the other new codecs multithreaded or faster? benchmarks anyone?
>
>Seems pointless to me, multithreading will not work on Linux and on
>Windows MPlayer should be able to use the installed versions...

i thought coreavc-for-linux had multithreading...

also some windows boxes do not have wmp11 (mine!) and i
dont have plans to upgrade anytime soon. in fact, wmp10/wmp11 will not
even install on win98/win2k
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/10/readme.aspx#System
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/11/readme.aspx#Minimumsystemrequirements

my other point that newer codecs = faster still holds.

-compn