So, MeGUI has finally made it to the News Page!

[ukb008]

The next wave is getting ready to explode. Keeping an eye on this (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=87567) page, as well as the download (http://www.doom9.org/software2.htm) section.

We'd need M$ .NET Framework 1.1 which requires IE for installation, the archrival of our own Mozilla Firefox.

Regards.

[Abond]

Interesting, what it has to do with MPEG1/2 encoding?

[buzzqw]

We'd need M$ .NET Framework 1.1 which requires IE for installation, the archrival of our own Mozilla Firefox.

Interesting, what it has to do with MPEG1/2 encoding?

Don't know, well.. maybe ukb008 can explain or :readrule:

BHH

[ukb008]

Hi, PROs. Allow me to apologize. I wanted to post this in the General Discussions because I am quite excited about this one, rather than in the Codecs forum. Posting here was a mistake. Sorry.

Perhaps a Moderator might remove this to the appropriate area?

Regards.

[stax76]

I'm not quite sure what's this is about, I hope my english isn't the problem. There were probably 30 .NET apps in the news before, I don't know how many is in the download section.

Nobody forces you to install it, simply leave it alone and search for a alternative application build with good old C++ or Delphi or maybe Python. If you are lucky you might even find a portable application that runs on other platforms as well just like Firefox.

The problem is for Microsoft IE, WMP, .NET, DShow etc. is all part of the windows platform, obviously many people have issues with that, we got even threads about exactly this here.

Sooner or later Microsoft product A always depends on Microsoft product B, various reasons can lead to this, business, technical and others. It's similar when you buy hardware, when you buy a new CPU it's not unusual you require also a new mainboard etc.

Why .NET needs IE:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnnetdep/html/NETFx1Redistreq1_1.asp

[Doom9]

uhh.. I don't use IE except for Windowsupdate. And you can perfectly well download the .NET redistributable using Firefox (that's the way I did it) so I don't quite get your point on .NET and IE.

[ukb008]

uhh.. I don't use IE except for Windowsupdate. And you can perfectly well download the .NET redistributable using Firefox (that's the way I did it) so I don't quite get your point on .NET and IE.

For me, there are no issues other than the fact that I am ever so slightly allergic to M$. But, that, really, is a personal feeling.

And what stax says:

The problem is for Microsoft IE, WMP, .NET, DShow etc. is all part of the windows platform, obviously many people have issues with that, we got even threads about exactly this here.

Sooner or later Microsoft product A always depends on Microsoft product B, various reasons can lead to this, business, technical and others.

is not without merit. One day this dependence may truly lead to something like this: we have to use Windows as OS if we are to use this Product A that requires .NET.

Regards.

[Doom9]

actually, if you get me a generic .NET AVI parser that does not rely on the AVIFile API, I could easily make MeGUI run on Linux/Mono. But, then you'd need to find a way to run DGIndex and AviSynth on Linux as well (you should be with Wine though). But there's very little platform specific code. And I bet you're using Windows yourself, so using another other MS product on a MS OS should really be no problem. It's not like .NET is evil, and it's going to become more and more important in the future. But with large parts being an ECMA standard, alternative implementations like Mono are fortunately in the works.

[ukb008]

Arguments valid, therefore accepted :).

Regards.