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27th July 2009, 07:01 | #261 | Link | |
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WMP Lite is essentially a VLC Player or MPlayer. Only it's built by MS. Even if it uses dshow, it would be restricted to codecs approved by MS. WMP Advanced is WMP similar to how it is on WinXP. Perhaps with something better than the current merit system as somebody suggested earlier. The whole idea is to let "professionals" and "enthusiasts" use the filters they want to use. Just as gamers would use beta drivers that aren't WHQL'd by MS.
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I doubt they would want to maintain two different versions of an application, especially with one being for a minority enthusiast audience whom largely use MPC-HC/Zoom Player/etc anyway. They have a hard enough time dealing with separate x86/x86-64 builds of an application.
The bigger issue in my eyes (admittedly as a person who isn't affected by this) is how it affects Media Centre. |
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^ I don't see why MS would have to do much maintenance with WMP Advanced. Just keep it the way it is.
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If you whole idea is to let 'professional/enthusiasts' to be able to use the filters they want, they would have already chosen to use MPC-HC/KMPlayer/MediaPortal etc. instead of WMP or MediaCenter. Plus, since when WMP 11 on WIndows XP has become a flexible and professional video playing software? |
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There's always test cost, even with code that didn't change, because it needs to get tested with/on the stuff that did change. |
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Granted, CoreAVC, DIVX, and Cyberlink aren't the huge companies Nvidia and ATI are, but what they sell isn't exactly pushing the envelope like 3D GPU's. Can the fees required "just for testing" be so prohibitively high? It's not like you have pull CoreAVC and DIVX decoders in and out slots on a test bed machine. WHQL certified filters may not be such a bad thing from a business standpoint. Assuming, of course, that you're not trying to monopolize.
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Windows is designed to allow 3rd party players to take full advantage of the media pipeline, to support a wide variety of scenarios we're not going to handle directly. We're not doing a Blu-ray player either, but made sure Blu=ray players can take full advantage of DXVA and PMP. Quote:
Also, Divx and Cyberlink make their own players, so this shoudn't be a problem for them, should it? |
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