Now I understand! Thanks!
--- On Sat, 9/20/08, Florent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Florent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [Elisa] Question > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [email protected] > Date: Saturday, September 20, 2008, 3:03 PM > 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
