[PATCH] xaudio2: Use ffmpeg to convert non-PCM formats

Henri Verbeet hverbeet at gmail.com
Wed Sep 9 10:32:45 CDT 2015


On 9 September 2015 at 17:26, Andrew Eikum <aeikum at codeweavers.com> wrote:
> I've discussed other options with people on IRC, including:
>
> Build and distribute our own Windows FFmpeg package, or ask the user to
> install a Windows FFmpeg package in their wineprefix, instead of relying
> on the system FFmpeg. Maybe a workable solution, but we'd have to build
> and distribute yet another package, or rely on a 3rd party to do so.
> There may also be optimization concerns with a package built for Windows
> instead of natively on Linux/OSX.
>
> Find a different WMA decoding library. While one exists (libwmapro), it
> is simply pulled out of FFmpeg and converted for use on iPods. It's
> several years of out date with FFmpeg's WMA decoder. No other open
> source WMA decoder exists that I'm aware of.
>
> Pull FFmpeg's WMA code out and use it in Wine directly. This would
> require a significant amount of effort and ongoing work to pull in
> updates. I'm not convinced this is worth the effort.
>
Mostly for completeness, I think "fix gstreamer" was also mentioned as
an option at some point.



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