Hi On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 11:05 PM, ugh ugher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Just a quick question.... > Why cant media centers use something like VLC to play movies that way you > dont need to worry about codecs and things like that? I'm not a developer so > I'm just asking out of curiosity. > Well, Elisa already uses gstreamer, which embeds all the needed (understand: available and working) codecs for media decoding. Do you have to worry about codecs with Elisa ? It's highlt doubtful there would be any vlc-based media center someday, since vlc is a program (not a framework). Other applications can hardly make use of vlc as decoding engine. However, keep in mind that vlc itself uses the same codecs as other free alternatives (mplayer, gstreamer through gst-ffmpeg). So, to answear, Elisa already does that ! The vast majority of others use DirectShow only, which is troublesome (you have to install the codecs manually so that DirectShow can decode non standard codecs -- codec packs exactly do that: installing & registering new codecs into DirectShow), or the QuickTime framework for the Apple counterpart. Hope this fixes your quick question ! FLo
