[GSOC] dshow/gst branch rebased and commented

[Edward Hervey]

Hi all,

I took some time this morning to rebase tdavenport's gst/dshow branch
against current master and added my comments/reviews in the last commit.

The branch can be found here :
http://github.com/bilboed/wine/tree/tdaven-rebased

I'm putting this out so that if any student is interested, he could
carry on this work during GSOC.

The current status is that using gstreamer as a backend for dshow has
been proven to work within a very limited use-case.

What remains:
  * Making it more efficient, flexible and lightweight (see all my
comments)
  * Allowing it to automatically pick up whatever GStreamer element is
available on the system and make it available through dshow.

A good goal for example would be to make the various audio/video
gstreamer sinks available through dshow (for example picking up the
pulse sink), and the various audio/video decoders.
  Having it working with a native windows application (pick a player or
an audio/video app using dshow) would be a must.

Don't hesitate to ask questions/comments,

Edward

[Roderick Colenbrander]

On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 10:45 AM, Edward Hervey  wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I took some time this morning to rebase tdavenport's gst/dshow branch
> against current master and added my comments/reviews in the last commit.
>
> The branch can be found here :
> http://github.com/bilboed/wine/tree/tdaven-rebased
>
> I'm putting this out so that if any student is interested, he could
> carry on this work during GSOC.
>
> The current status is that using gstreamer as a backend for dshow has
> been proven to work within a very limited use-case.
>
> What remains:
>  * Making it more efficient, flexible and lightweight (see all my
> comments)
>  * Allowing it to automatically pick up whatever GStreamer element is
> available on the system and make it available through dshow.
>
> A good goal for example would be to make the various audio/video
> gstreamer sinks available through dshow (for example picking up the
> pulse sink), and the various audio/video decoders.
>  Having it working with a native windows application (pick a player or
> an audio/video app using dshow) would be a must.
>
> Don't hesitate to ask questions/comments,
>
> Edward

Thanks for the update. I have also updated the gsoc proposal list at
our wiki, to point at this mail. Hopefully someone will pick it up as
this would be a really useful project in my opinion.

Roderick