Avi/DivX
lazarus / 5-Lazarus Extra Components

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resle · 2007-10-29 12:07

Hi, I'd like to port a simple application from Delphi to Lazarus.
Simple, except for the fact that it uses a windows-specific component
play and control a bunch of Avi (DivX) files. Is there anything
similar for Lazarus? Some component or library to manage Avi files?
Thanks in advance

 - andrea

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antonio · 2007-10-29 13:55

I think there's not.

BTW, you could try to port it, or at least make a feature request on
bugtracker.

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resle · 2007-10-29 23:15

Ah, I'd like to but I can't. The component is closed source - and
anyway I think it strongly relies on Windows specific calls, infact it
wraps windows media player. So there are no media components at all to
play movies or mp3 files and so on - in a Lazarus/free pascal
application? That's... odd.

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antonio · 2007-10-30 01:38

I guess it is so because it would be a Windows specific component.

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resle · 2007-10-30 06:45

So... just to be sure and "close" the question: every player on Linux
is using its own code and builtin decompression codecs and there's no
media framework that can be reused in anyway by integrating it into
freepascal/lazarus?

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Leledumbo · 2007-10-30 10:14

Well, for audio only there's ACS, but for video... I have no idea.

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da_seeb · 2007-12-05 16:06

you can try to interface videolan player. There is a delphi interface
available. Shouldn't be to difficult.