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> If they made it a DirectShow filter, They won't because DirectShow is deprecated and slated for eventual removal[1][2], regardless its practical value. [1]:
by Dalewyn 4y ago
> If they made it a DirectShow filter,
They won't because DirectShow is deprecated and slated for eventual removal[1][2], regardless its practical value.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DirectShow https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DirectShow
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_Foundation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_Foundation
- userbinator 4y ago"eventual" in Microsoft terms is a very, very long time, and I can safely say that a lot of DirectShow-based stuff has specialised hardware behind it too. Of course the core of my argument doesn't change if I replace DirectShow filter with its Media Foundation equivalent --- generic video processing functionality available to all applications on the platform, vs. being bound to one and restricted to a narrow use-case.
- Dalewyn 4y agoI can kind of see why this might be Edge-specific than Windows-specific, since Edge is platform agnostic (it's just Microsoft Chrome, after all) and having the Windows implementation be DS/MF-based would be repeated, additional work from a broader, Windows agnostic perspective. It would make sense from a "Windows first class citizen" perspective and I prefer Windows's "operating system is the central datastore" approach to media filters, of course. Linux's "BYOF" ("Bring Your Own Filters") approach sucks arse.