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1 ============================ |
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2 Win32 codecs importing HOWTO |
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3 ============================ |
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5 This document describes how to extract the information necessary to hook |
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6 up Win32 binary codecs in MPlayer from a Windows system. Different methods |
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7 exist depending on which video API your codec uses and which Windows |
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8 version you have. |
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10 If you have gathered all the necessary information (fourcc, GUID, codec file, |
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11 sample file) as described below, notify the mplayer-dev-eng mailing list. |
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12 If you want to add a codec yourself, read DOCS/tech/codecs.conf.txt. |
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17 ~~~~~~~~~~ |
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29025 | 19 VfW (Video for Windows) is the old video API for Windows. Its codecs have |
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20 the '.dll' or (rarely) '.drv' extension. If MPlayer fails at playing your |
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21 AVI with this kind of message: |
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24 Cannot find codec matching selected -vo and video format 0x55594648. | |
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26 It means your AVI is encoded with a codec which has the HFYU fourcc (HFYU = |
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27 HuffYUV codec, DIV3 = DivX Low Motion, etc.). Now that you know this, you |
28902 | 28 have to find out which DLL Windows loads in order to play this file. |
29025 | 29 You can find the VfW codec by searching the internet for e.g. VIDC.HFYU. |
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31 In our case, the 'system.ini' also contains this information in a line that reads: | |
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33 VIDC.HFYU=huffyuv.dll |
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28902 | 35 So you need the 'huffyuv.dll' file. |
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39 ACM Codecs: | |
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41 MPlayer may fail at playing the audio in your file with this message: | |
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43 Cannot find codec for audio format 0x55. | |
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46 MPlayer calls this the TwoCC format identifier. From the TwoCC list we find: | |
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48 0x0055 MPEG-1 Layer 3 (MP3) | |
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50 If you are lucky, you can then just search the internet for "codec acm" | |
51 e.g. "mp3 acm". Or if the codec is already installed on Windows, | |
52 it will show up in the system.ini as: | |
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54 msacm.l3acm=L3codeca.acm |
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28902 | 56 Note that the audio codecs are specified by the MSACM prefix: |
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60 DirectShow codecs: |
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61 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
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63 DirectShow is the newer video API, which is even worse than its predecessor. |
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64 Things are harder with DirectShow, since 'system.ini' does not contain the |
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65 needed information, instead it is stored in the registry and we need the |
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66 GUID of the codec. |
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69 New Method: |
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70 ----------- |
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72 Using Microsoft GraphEdit (fast) |
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74 - Get GraphEdit from the Microsoft SDK, DirectX SDK or doom9. |
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75 - Start 'graphedit.exe'. |
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76 - From the menu select "Graph -> Insert Filters". |
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77 - Expand item "DirectShow Filters". |
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78 - Select the right codec name and expand item. |
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79 - In the entry "DisplayName" look at the text in winged brackets after the |
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80 backslash and write it down (five dash-delimited blocks, the GUID). |
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81 - The codec binary is the file specified in the "Filename" entry. |
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83 If there is no "Filename" and "DisplayName" contains something like |
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84 'device:dmo', then it is a DMO-Codec. |
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87 Old Method: |
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90 Take a deep breath and start searching the registry... |
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92 - Start 'regedit'. |
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93 - Press "Ctrl-F", disable the first two checkboxes, and enable the third. |
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94 Type in the fourcc of the codec (e.g. "TM20"). |
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95 - You should see a field which contains the path and the filename (e.g. |
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96 "C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\TM20DEC.AX"). |
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97 - Now that you have the file, we need the GUID. Try searching again, but |
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98 now search for the codec's name, not the fourcc. Its name can be acquired |
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99 when Media Player is playing the file, by checking |
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100 "File -> Properties -> Advanced". |
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101 If not, you are out of luck. Try guessing (e.g. search for TrueMotion). |
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102 - If the GUID is found you should see a "FriendlyName" and a "CLSID" field. |
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103 Write down the 16 byte CLSID, this is the GUID we need. |
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105 If searching fails, try enabling all the checkboxes. You may have |
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106 false hits, but you may get lucky... |
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112 If you get an error loading a new codec, it may need some more files to work. | |
29025 | 113 Start the filemon utility before loading MPlayer to find out which DLLs are |
28902 | 114 trying to be loaded. |
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29025 | 116 Your codec may load some external DLL libraries. If the codec is already |
28902 | 117 installed in Windows, run listdlls wmplayer.exe while Windows Media |
118 Player is playing your file to find out which. |