Open source HD DVD player software

[noclip]

Now that PowerDVD is prohibiting playback of everything but MAFIAA-sanctioned content, I had the idea that a lot of the disparate HD DVD tools here could be combined to create a lightweight, open source HD DVD player application for Windows. If anyone is interested I can set up an SF project.

[Doom9]

IIrc, we're quite far in the audio department (only the high def DTS varieties missing), in the video department (ffdshow.. not sure if it contains VC-1 decoding but I think there's some code out there) - the main issue is navigation... as with DVD, the necessary specs are under NDA.
The same also goes for Blu-ray by the way.. codecs are one piece of the puzzle, but it's the "putting it all together" part that's quite involved.

I believe you'll find some posts about using MPC together with commercial filters to play HD discs.. at this point it's a rather patchworky solution though.