[MPlayer-users] some ideas of mine

[Alban Bedel]

Hi jbrown105 at speedymail.org,

on Sun, 9 Jun 2002 17:35:57 +0000 you wrote:

> Thirdly, and I know this is a remote possibility, I was wondering, is
> there
> any way of using the RealPlayer so libraries to give MPlayer RealPlayer
> G3 support? Not by disassembling to create a clone, but rather to use
> the so libraries themselves (say to get the list of exported functions
> and figure out which function does what, so then one could create a
> codec for MPlayer which would use the RealPlayer libraries to do the
> real decoding). Is this a good idea, or am I missing out on something?
RV is on the way, be patient.

> Finally, I was wondering when/if MediaPlayer .asx support will be
> added to MPlayer (assuming that there wasn't a newer version with this
> already released).
There is support for asx. You can use an asx with -playlist file.asx or give an
URL to an asx file and mplayer will directly use it if the webserver is correctly
configured (ie. return the good mime-type).
	Albeu