| 1 | dxlist is a small console application for Windows which can list the
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| 2 | directsound devices and directdraw display devices. This info is then used
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| 3 | by smplayer.
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| 4 |
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| 5 | Usage: just run dxlist.exe with the -d or -s switches. -d shows the display
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| 6 | devices, -s the sound devices.
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| 8 | Compiling: in order to compile it you need the directx headers
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| 9 | (you can get a package here: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/dx7headers.tgz), and
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| 10 | extract it in the directx folder. Then just compile it with the usual:
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| 11 |
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| 12 | qmake
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| 13 | make
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| 14 |
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| 15 | Installation: dxlist.exe has to be installed on the same folder as smplayer.exe.
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| 16 |
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| 17 | Someone may be wondering... why don't you just simply call mplayer to get that
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| 18 | info instead of writing this program?
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| 19 |
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| 20 | Yes, mplayer can display that info, but there are several inconveniences:
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| 21 |
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| 22 | 1) it's necessary to use the -v switch. That makes mplayer to be much more
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| 23 | verbose, that could even have an impact on performace (at least that was
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| 24 | a problem with old versions of Qt)
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| 25 |
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| 26 | 2) it's necessary to play a file. Yes, you can't get the info if you don't
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| 27 | play a file. That's a problem, smplayer wouldn't be able to get the info until
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| 28 | the user has at least played one file.
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| 29 |
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| 30 | 3) even worse, to get the info about the attached displays, you have to
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| 31 | use the -adapter option, but how can you know what value to use for
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| 32 | -adapter if you don't know yet the list of valid values?
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| 33 |
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| 34 | Because of those problems, I found easier to try to get that info using other
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| 35 | ways. This program just outputs the required info, no need to play anything,
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| 36 | smplayer can call it whenever it needs it.
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| 37 |
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| 38 | Finally, the reason to implement all this in a separate program and not inside
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| 39 | smplayer itself (which would have been easier) is just simply to avoid it
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| 40 | to depend on directx, and require everyone who want to compile it to install
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| 41 | the directx headers. After all this (dxlist) program is optional, smplayer
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| 42 | can work without it.
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