I think fork Media Player Classic as ReactOS Media Player is a good choice

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Re: I think fork Media Player Classic as ReactOS Media Player is a good choice

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Thankyou hbelusca, email sent.
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cernodile wrote: Thu Dec 06, 2018 9:07 am As mentioned by elhoir - JIRA is not the place for such discussions. If you'd like to propose it in one go, I suggest going the mailing list way or keep discussing this topic until a developer either takes interest in it or gives a final word on it.
I don't understand why the feature request was closed. It was not posted there as a discussion at all from what I could see. Oh well, just part of why I don't take a more active part here.
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Re: I think fork Media Player Classic as ReactOS Media Player is a good choice

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PurpleGurl wrote: Fri Dec 07, 2018 7:19 am
cernodile wrote: Thu Dec 06, 2018 9:07 am As mentioned by elhoir - JIRA is not the place for such discussions. If you'd like to propose it in one go, I suggest going the mailing list way or keep discussing this topic until a developer either takes interest in it or gives a final word on it.
I don't understand why the feature request was closed. It was not posted there as a discussion at all from what I could see. Oh well, just part of why I don't take a more active part here.
JIRA's purpose is to be a bug tracker, rather than idea proposal. I believe only set in stone tasks can go there.
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dizt3mp3r wrote: Thu Dec 06, 2018 3:49 pm Thankyou hbelusca, email sent.
I don't see your mail on ros-dev. :roll:
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It bounced back - I am waiting for a response to my request to be subscribed.
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@dizt3mp3r: you subscribed by going there first? : https://reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev
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njlyf2011 wrote: Tue Dec 04, 2018 12:01 pm So I think fork Media Player Classic as ReactOS Media Player is a good choice.
...but MPC needs directshow codecs (that are NOT efficient for the system performances).

There are *ways* better choices, IMHO:
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I think for ReactOS its enough to have two built-in players: mplay32.exe which uses MCI API, and amovie.ocx thingy which uses DirectShow API and runs within rundll32 context.

Other more advanced third-party players can be installed from external sources.
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hbelusca wrote: Fri Dec 07, 2018 2:10 pm @dizt3mp3r: you subscribed by going there first? : https://reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev
Thankyou Hbelusca, I eventually managed to sign in and submitted the request. A bit delayed by Christmas preparations.
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Hey, I responded to your email but by mistake I didn't send it to the list but just to you. I'm writing it here so others can also see what I was saying.

The thing is, Media Player Classic is good, nice and lightweight but uses MFC which is enought to make it impossible to include in ReactOS. It is perfectly fine to have it in Rapps but without also having an open source implementation of MFC we can't compile it ourselves.
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binarymaster wrote: Thu Dec 20, 2018 4:23 pm I think for ReactOS its enough to have two built-in players: mplay32.exe which uses MCI API, and amovie.ocx thingy which uses DirectShow API and runs within rundll32 context.

Other more advanced third-party players can be installed from external sources.
I 100% agree to binarymaster's position.
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Re: I think fork Media Player Classic as ReactOS Media Player is a good choice

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+1 for binarymaster's position
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^^^+1
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Received an answer from Giannis Adamopoulos:
Giannis Adamopoulos
Hi,
after having a look at the code of Media Player Classic I saw that it uses MFC. I hope that you can understand that we cannot include any project in ReactOS that uses MFC as we don't have an implementation of it right now nor there exists an open source implementation of it. At some point we may implement the active X controls and things like that but for now they are not a priority.
MFC is a library that ReactOS just does not yet have so this request will have to remain on the back-burner for the moment.

I found something that believes it is an open source alternative to MFC but I'll bet my boots it is not fully compatible.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/win32-framework/
Win32++ is a C++ library used to build windows applications. It is a simple, open source alternative to MFC. Win32++ supports the C++ compilers from GNU and Microsoft. It is an ideal starting point for anyone learning to program for windows, but also caters for the needs of professional developers.
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Re: I think fork Media Player Classic as ReactOS Media Player is a good choice

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Code from other projects is never "free". When such code is added to ReactOS, it adds its own maintenance burden to the ReactOS project. Even keeping RAPPS free of bad download links is now a large maintenance burden.
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