On 9 September 2015 at 17:26, Andrew Eikum aeikum@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.