[mythtv-users] MythMusic is working

[Joseph A. Caputo]

No reason except that no one has written a WMA decoder for MythMusic, and I
don't know if there's an open source WMA decoding library, other than
whatever is built into mplayer.  You can't just "use the same codecs" that
mplayer uses; it's not a development library/toolkit like libmp3lame, libogg
or libvorbis, so you can't link to it.  You'd have to actually lift parts of
the mplayer codebase & bring it into the Myth tree, which is always a hassle
as it has to then be periodically re-synched from the main mplayer source
tree.

Not saying it's impossible, just a PITA.

-JAC

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at snowman.net
> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at snowman.net]On Behalf Of rwk at americom.com
> Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 4:59 AM
> To: mythtv-users at snowman.net
> Subject: [mythtv-users] MythMusic is working
>
>
> Is there a reason why MythMusic can't play WMA files (or won't import
> them if it will play them)?  That is, can't it use the same codecs thet
> mplayer uses?
>
> Thanks,
> Dick