[vorbis-dev] Re: Ogg Vorbis DirectShow decoder filter - ongoing development ?

[Christian HJ Wiesner]

Hi Jack,

Jack Moffitt wrote:

>>The last thing we heard from Tobias was the announcement from Emmet that 
>>he has joined the Xiph Team as Theora developer officially, and that the 
>>sources of his DirectShow filter would be uploaded to Xiph CVS.
> I don't remmber this.  Do you have a url to a message in the archive for
> this?  Or was this only announced in IRC?

Yes, it was announced on IRC.

> Afaict, Tobias only posted _once_ on any vorbis mailing list, and has
> never responded to anyone's emails.  

Thats correct, he replied to some of my early emails, but then never 
again. Maybe the success of his set of filters was not expected by him 
in this way, and he as simply not capable of handling the huge number of 
emails he must have got.

>>Since then nobody, not even his personal friend Ludovic 'Blacksun' 
>>Vialle, has heard from him again, it seems he is facing some severe 
>>RLIs. And yes, developement on the filter seems to have stalled since 
>>then. Maybe about time to consider supporting the most used Multimedia 
>>OS with a general and official Vorbis/Ogg DirectShow filter from Xiph' 
>>site ?
> This is depressing.  That leaves us one half way decent closed source
> set of filters, and one totally awful set of open source ones.  Both
> abandoned.

Where are the opensource sets your are mentioning ? Maybe we can 
progress from there ?

> Would any of you win32 nuts like to help fund an official set of
> plugins?  I have some pointers on reliable people to do the work.
> jack.

LOL ! I never knew i am a 'win32 nut' , but maybe i ever have been one 
without noticing :) ? Anyway, if we can help, just give us a shout. If 
we dont hear from you guys within the next 2 weeks, we simply start with 
the Vorbis decoder based on some GPL skeleton code we have done already 
( for CoreAAC BTW, an opensource AAC Dshow filter ).

Another thing : If you plan to make a set of filters of your own, was it 
possible to get CVS write access for at least one of our devs, so we can 
upload patches easier ?

Regards

Christian

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