Yes, but nevertheless I think that's better than nothing, and later on
64-bit DLLs will for sure come along. Another thing is that there's no
way video conversations (new in MSN7 as I mentioned) can be supported
without doing it this way, as WMV9 (WMV3) hasn't yet been fully
reverse-engineered; and that's the decoder -- no-one is working on
reverse-engineering the encoder, which is needed because the two-way
nature of this protocol (as opposed to webcam). Siren is another
obstacle as well, I don't know of anyone working on REing it, so in
short I think the only solution to be able to keep up is to go for a
wineloader-approach, that way at least those features can be supported
on x86 32-bit (and probably 64-bit as well in a while). Maybe there's
some way to achieve the same on Mac as well, but that'll be a lot
trickier I suspect.
And having this temporary solution, if someone with way too much
sparetime should feel like doing it, the Siren-codec could be RE'd.
That way voice clips and voice conversations could become 100%
platform-independent after a while. I suspect WMV will take longer
though, due to no work being put into RE'ing the encoder.

Ole André


On 12/3/05, Karol Krizka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Friday 02 December 2005 11:17, Youness Alaoui wrote:
> > mplayer's codecs are windows .dll files that mplayer is able to read... if
> > the codec is available for windows, and linux (mplayer), it means it's a
> > standard codec available for download somewhere on the net (codec
> > community packs for example), which means we could find a version of that
> > codec for each platform and ship it with amsn.
> >
> If this codec is only used by the MS Dll in the mplayer, then it won't work on
> 64-bit linux. Since the Windows Media Player exists only in  32bits, the
> dll's can't be used.
>
> --
> Karol Krizka
>
>
>


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