[Flac] DShow Filters - "Play to" support in WMP

[David Balažic]

This project seems to fit the bill: https://sourceforge.net/projects/mfflac/

It plays FLAC files in WMP and also allows "play to".

Except it does not support the other codecs (vorbis, Opus...)



On 23 August 2016 at 23:26, Cristian Adam <cristian.adam at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 23-Aug-16 22:04, David Balažic wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> Apparently the current DShow filters (https://xiph.org/dshow/
>  ,
> Version 0.85.17777) don't allow for flac files to be streamed over
> DLNA from Windows to DLNA devices (like a TV set with WLAN).
>
> I use Windows 8.1 64 bit and while Play-to works with mp3 and other
> "natively" supported files, it does not works with flac files. (I can
> play them locally in WMP, just not send them over DLNA),
>
> Is there any solution?
> How much of changes would be needed to the dshow filters to allow this
> functionality?
> Or is the problem somewhere else?
>
> Regards,
> David
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> Hi,
>
>
> The FLAC decoder filter includes also the file reading part. This needs to
> be decoupled.
> Other Xiph filters have had the same problem.
>
> It is on my TODO list (also reported as #1653), but as you have seen the
> work on DirectShow
> filters is non existent in the recent years.
>
> I plan to get back at hacking the DirectShow filters this autumn.
>
> As for a solution, Windows 10 provides a MediaFoundation filter for FLAC,
> and it might simply just work.
>
> Cheers,
> Cristian.
>
>