Wikipedia:Peer review/DirectShow/archive1

DirectShow[edit]

Hi, this was originally a stub article that I expanded quite a bit using my experience - and its the first one I've submitted for peer review. DirectShow is the media framework Microsoft uses to render media files on windows. I think I did a decent job keeping it NPOV, and I think its fairly good overall. Let me know what you think. --RN 10:25, 29 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

a) could do with some coverage of Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) b) could do with references, e.g. using Wikipedia:Footnote3, c) I think the section of source code is too long to have inline d) some coverage of monopoly issues; how this interacts with 3rd party players, how it restricts their use and availability etc. e) specific listing of unsupported formats (OGG/Vobis?). Hope that helps. Mozzerati 21:36, August 11, 2005 (UTC)

- Thanks for the response
- A) The problem is DS has very limited DRM capability itself - that's what the windows media SDK is for, which is a seperate beast... I guess I could put that in though
  just saying what you said is probably a good start.
- B) Agreed
- C) Yeah, I'm not sure what to do with that, it makes the page bigger though which I wanted (albiet artificially)
  put it on wikisource???
- D) This sounds interesting but I've never heard of any these... if there are some that would be great as its something that would benefit the article
  needs searching on google but I found at least one article. Most things are talking about WMP, but actually the EU ruling also requires removal of the underlying APIs I believe.
- E) Well, since its a plugin API it could theoritically support anything... but I could say that and what it supports by default

--Ryan Norton ^{T | @ | C} 07:43, 17 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

- which formats wouldn't auto-install in a default windows install? If I click on an ogg on an internet connected fully patched default windows XP install, what happens? Mozzerati 20:36, August 22, 2005 (UTC)