On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 02:23, Paul Davis wrote: > But there are not very many "pro > audio" plugins under DirectX - lots of instruments and wierdo > enthusiast FX, but not the sort of stuff that ProTools, Nuendo and > Logic users are inclined towards.
Waaahh!!! I would disagree. The Waves bundles are seriously good and goes for thousands of dollars. Hardly low end stuff. But I do agree that there is a lot of what you say. The instruments are DXi though. > the reason mplayer works is either: > > * they are using wine to help them out > * the codecs are free of all MS system calls > > i'd think that the second one was likely. unfortunately for plugins, > especially DirectX ones that come with a GUI, this is not likely to be > the case there. plugins are at least an order of magnitude more > complex than most codec modules. I never said it would be easy :) -Lea.