[Mplayer-users] 0.18pre4 released with native divx codec :)

[Arpi]

Hi,

> >> I never said about removing win32 stuff entire for the now.
> >> But in the future - when native codecs will come in.
> >Of course. But it's as unlikely as M$ sends us WMV8 sources for example.
> >
> Why? Lets WMV8 support will be in mplayer as win32 stuff.
> But l3codeca.acm is dead thing for mplayer and soon divxc32.dll
> (And I hope that someone will write opensource support for divxa32)
> I can't find users which would be glad to use win32 codecs to
> lose frames and dream about upgrading their hardware.
> (But people are strange creatures so can be everything).
Yes, people are strange. But users are more stranger :)

> >> In general I can remove all win32 support locally on my computer since they
> >And when you encounter an Indeo5/WMV7 AVI, you'll recompile. Well, it's up
> >to you. Or: compile two binaries, 'mplayer' and 'mplayer-win32' . Great, eh?
> >:/
> >
> Yes! Great idea!!! Gabucino, where you were before?
> IMHO it's best solution to add --disable-win32 in configure, isn't?
> (Of course --enable-win32 by default)
Agree. I've talked about this with LGB 1-2 days ago. He planned to do it.

> So mpg12play can be stopped too.
It's already stopped.

> >> (Of course sometime mplayer uses divx audio support of which still is not
> >> implemented as open source codecs - but only rare .avis contain such streams)
> >No. For example a very significant amount of anime on the net (and some of
> >mine) contain DivXa.
> >
> For inet toys - maybe. But when I purchase a CDROM with DivX-MSMPEG4
> movie I have only mp3 stream (at least in my country). So it's no problem for Russia.
EHh. Where do yoy buy cdroms with divx? why don't you buy dvd if you spend
money? :)

> >> MPlayer could lost so much unnecessary stuffs: wine, dshow, vfw, ... and be
> >> much faster without emulators.
> >It wouldn't be faster, only the binary would be smaller. As far as I know.
> >Use UPX :)
> >
> >Will you answer to such mails : "WTF, mplayer doesn't even play Indeo !"
> >(oh well, RTFM :)
> Probably I have lacks of english, but I mean to remove only part of win32
> codecs for now (which has opensource fastest analogs). So mplayer will support
> and this terrible format aka Intel's Indeo Video.
There are native linux codecs for those old formats under linux, made for
xanim (but binary-only and sloow).
But for new stuff like divx audio and WMV we still need win32.

Btw, what about xanim codec plugin support?


A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team

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