[mythtv-users] MythMusic is working

[rwk at americom.com]

On my system (which either came with redhat or which came with rpm's I
installed), I have a directory /usr/lib/win32.  In there are a bunch of
dll's which appear to be exact copies of whats on windows.  I am just
guessing, but it looks like someone has figured out how to dynamically
load these into Linux programs.  For example:

     file /usr/lib/win32/wmadmod.dll
reports:
     wmadmod.dll: MS-DOS executable (EXE), OS/2 or MS Windows

I don't know how this all works, but I would assume if MythMusic could
load Windows shared libraries like mplayer must do, then it would have
access to all the Windows codecs.

I'm sure it would be a PITA though...  :)

> 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
> 
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