[SPAM] Re: MSN Protocol documentation

[Alan Humpherys]

Great job on the WMV3 decoding!  The lack of an open source codec for  
the MSN voice/video protocol has been a serious impediment to getting  
MSN v/v working on the Mac.  (My understanding was that Linux  
previously only worked because mplayer used the windows media player  
DLL in compatibility mode.)

Alan


On Feb 9, 2008, at 9:35 PM, Youness Alaoui wrote:

> arghh.. not intentional.. I just hit 'r' and didn't notice it sent  
> it in private.. forwarding to the ML now, so guys, read the previous  
> 2 mails
> before continuing...
>
> ok, I see about vv==av :p yes, a dedicated section is definitely  
> necessary, considering the amount of data we'll have to put in there..
>
> On a side note, I've just (5 minutes ago) been able to decode a WMV3  
> stream received from WLM in the audio/video conference thingy :D
> The audio is the problem now because of the stupid snack extension  
> for tcl opening/closing the audio device on every chunk of sound  
> (every
> 50ms).. and now, I have to write a Tcl extension for libavcodec...  
> apart from that, the only remaining challenge is encoding WMV3 (no  
> encoder
> exists in open source), but I'll try to send ML20 frames and see if  
> WLM uses the FCC in the header to decode, or if it uses the WMV3
> decoder hardcoded and skips the FCC field... if it works, then aMSN  
> might be the first open source solution with interop audio/video
> conversations :D
>
>
> KaKaRoTo