ffmpeg plugin

[Kevin K. <kev...@gm...>]

Hi, all.

Since I have some .wma files in my media library, I whipped up a
plugin that utilizes ffmpeg as a decoder.  I've primarily tested it
out with the version of ffmpeg in ubuntu dapper.  However, it appears
to work fine with a recent SVN pull from ffmpeg's repository.  ffmpeg
has a somewhat noticeable memory footprint when all codecs and formats
are enabled.  I've manually registered the subset of wma-related
codecs and container formats for the version in ubuntu dapper, and
this helps significantly.   It would be nice to do this for all
versions of ffmpeg; however, its API is hardly stable...

I also have a version of the plugin that uses the stripped wma-only
version of ffmpeg from http://mcmcc.bat.ru/xmms-wma/.  This one has a
teensy memory footprint; however, I'm not sure what people think about
embedding an WMA+ASF decoder...

Since ffmpeg supports so many different formats, one could use it for
things like shorten (.shn) and realaudio files; these aren't enabled
at the moment.

Anyway, I've really taken a liking to cmus' no-nonsense interface.  Thanks!

kevin