[ros-general] AVI video playback under ROS --- now possible (first time ever under ROS :-) )

[Aleksey Bragin]

            Hello,
I've been working for the last two years creating a videoplayer, which can
play AVI file on virtually any Windows OS (excluding 3.11 and below) and
MacOS X. And my first wish was to extend this to allow playback even under
so early OS as ReactOS.

And now my dream came true. I have created a special, 'lite' version of the
videoplayer, which plays DIVX4-encoded AVI-files under ReactOS.
Certainly, I needed to 'hack' it a bit so it works under ROS -- like remove
common dialogs support (though AFAIK we have comdlg32.dll from Wine), and
leaving out bare playback mechanism along with OpenDivX decoder (source code
available at www.opendivx.org or www.projectmayo.org).

The player itself can be downloaded from here:
http://quake.msk.ru/VPLite.rar (please, read enclosed readme.txt file, since
it contains some legal stuff --- really just a few sentences which I must
write since not-lite version is a commercial product, which can't be
distributed).

As for AVI, you can playback any one, which is DIVX4-encoded.
Just for example, I uploaded the file - http://quake.msk.ru/me1-compr.avi (2
Mb), but please, don't make any screenshots of it, it's actually me shot by
a videocamera some years ago, in a very home environment, and in any way
really not for broad audience :). I just couldn't find another divx4 right
now on my computer.


You will probably encounter a lot of bugs, which are mostly related to
unimplemented parts of ROS.

Known limitations:
To watch video you must have 32bpp video mode set (like vmx_svga driver, or
any other, but I doubt vgamp.sys will work).
Only DIV4 supported
Video image isn't resized if you resize windows (absence of
StretchDIBits() )
many others probably.


Let me know of any problems though :)


With the best regards,
Aleksey Bragin.

P.S.
I congratualate all americans here on the list with the Thanksgiving day!!!