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nschlia / ffmpegfs

FUSE-based transcoding filesystem with video support from many formats to FLAC, MP4, TS, WebM, OGG, MP3, HLS, and others.
https://nschlia.github.io/ffmpegfs/
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Create Windows version #76

Open nschlia opened 3 years ago

nschlia commented 3 years ago

It could be desireable to have a Windows version.

Possible Windows Fuse versions here:

Notes:

Winfsp could be the best idea, it brings its own driver, relieving me from the hastle to build it (requires MS Visual Studio + the Windows Driver Development kit). Would be a huge project anyways as it requires to provide Windows DLLs of FFmpeg as well.

dangowrt commented 1 year ago

Having a Windows build using winfsp would be great! It would allow to have proprietary hard- and software (like Pioneer CDJ/XDJ players which rely on rekordbox exports) transparently support working with free formats (FLAC, OGG, MKV, ...) being automatically transcoded to uncompressed (e.g. WAV) on-access.

I'm trying to do this right now running rekordbox in a Windows VM accessing ffmpegfs mount on the Linux host via Samba. For normal every-day users of e.g. rekordbox this is too complicated, so having a native Windows build would make this amazing feature accessible to them.

nschlia commented 1 year ago

I'm trying to do this right now running rekordbox in a Windows VM accessing ffmpegfs mount on the Linux host via Samba. For normal every-day users of e.g. rekordbox this is too complicated, so having a native Windows build would make this amazing feature accessible to them.

Until now this was just an idea, I did not put too much time into it. At least I found out that now some promising Windows ports of the Fuse API exist. This means I do not have to port everything to Windows...

As the feature list of FFmpegfs is somewhat complete, I could spend some time on the port. Unfortunately I did not waste a thought on Windows when writing it, so it contains a lot of Linux system calls that have to be replaced or emulated for Windows...

To make it short: It's a bigger task to get it running under Windows, so please be patient.

nschlia commented 1 year ago

The Windows version is currently being worked on.

Unbelievably, this would-be operating system does not support expanding the length of a memory mapped file; hence, it is once again the last screw that gets jammed.

The cache class makes considerable use of dynamically growing memory-mapped files.

I'll have to come up with a fix for that issue.