Directshow in wine

GreatMilenko · Post by **GreatMilenko** » Wed Jul 29, 2009 4:14 am

Hello

I'm trying to make a video subtitling program (my own) run on Wine, and mostly i have succesfully gotten it up and running, everything seems to be working apart from the cruicial video part.
The video part of the application is running directshow and Wines implementation of Directshow seems to be severely lacking, so my question is: Is anybody working on that part of wine? or should i simply try and get it to run with VLC as Videorenderer?
I'm asking this question as nothing seems to have happened on that part of Wine when i last checked it 2 years ago.

Cheers

Thunderbird · Post by **Thunderbird** » Wed Jul 29, 2009 7:37 am

Currently our DirectShow is not in a very good shape but it should be usable for a lot of tasks if you install a codec pack. Work is being done on improving DirectShow. As part of a google summer-of-code project Trevor Davenport is extending gstreamer support to it, so that Wine can take advantage of codecs installed on the system.

GreatMilenko · Post by **GreatMilenko** » Thu Jul 30, 2009 2:18 am

That would indeed be a very welcome addition, because as it is now i cannot even render a simple mjpeg .avi file, even though the right codec is installed.
Will gstreamer be used to render video files?

GreatMilenko · Post by **GreatMilenko** » Thu Jul 30, 2009 2:47 am

I can see from Trevors description page that it is exactly what i need, a simple renderfile implementation that is scheduled to be finished by 17 of august:
http://wiki.winehq.org/Trevor_Davenport/gstreamer

How can i contact him? when i click on his name i just go to a default seach page for his name.

Thunderbird · Post by **Thunderbird** » Thu Jul 30, 2009 5:27 am

His contact details are e.g. at http://github.com/tdaven/ and parts of his work are there as well.

GreatMilenko · Post by **GreatMilenko** » Thu Jul 30, 2009 5:41 am

ok thanks