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Re: Media player software for linux?
- To: Shaul Karl <shaulka(at-nospam)bezeqint.net>
- Subject: Re: Media player software for linux?
- From: Alon Altman <alon(at-nospam)vipe.technion.ac.il>
- Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 04:19:53 +0300 (IDT)
- Cc: Jonathan Rouach <jon(at-nospam)techunix.technion.ac.il>, <linux-il(at-nospam)linux.org.il>
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- In-Reply-To: <E15RNMr-0004c3-00@rakefet>
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On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, Shaul Karl wrote:
> >
> >
> > Or try MPlayer, which uses free dll's from mswindows to decode mov, asf,
>
>
> Isn't a dll the equivalent of a library? Then how can it use a collection of
> objects made for another OS?
>
Just like "avifile" does it, using code from wine. Both OSs run on the
same architecture, so the wine code simply simulates the other OS's system
calls, so the DLL code thinks it's under the other OS.
Alon
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