Is there a Media Foundation Codec for ALAC ? Options

[andrewfg]

There exist already several DirectShow codecs that support playing of ALAC (Apple Lossless) media in Windows Media Player.

We know that Windows Media Player makes use of third party DirectShow codecs to enable it to Play otherwise unsupported media formats on the local PC's audio speakers. But it seems that Windows Media Player does not to use such third party DirectShow codecs to stream these same additional media formats to an external music player via its UPnP/DLNA "Play To" command. => I don't know the reason for this, but it seems that Windows Media Player can only use Media Foundation codecs for extending its UPnP/DLNA "Play To" capability to additional media formats.

So my question is simple: has anyone written a Media Foundation codec for ALAC (Apple Lossless)?

[Tim De Baets]

Indeed, I have noticed that as well. Intentionally or not, he did definitely leave out all Media Foundation and FLAC parsing code, which renders the source code pretty useless.

However, MFFLAC's source code might not be necessary after all. One could also use the WavSource and MPEG1Source Media Foundation SDK samples as a starting point. These are part of the Windows SDK but can also be downloaded separately here.

[andrewfg]

However, MFFLAC's source code might not be necessary after all. One could also use the WavSource and MPEG1Source Media Foundation SDK samples as a starting point. These are part of the Windows SDK but can also be downloaded separately here.

Yeah I know. I already looked as those too. I think my main issue is a motivational one: do I really want to start another project at this time ???

[John Lockwood]

However, MFFLAC's source code might not be necessary after all. One could also use the WavSource and MPEG1Source Media Foundation SDK samples as a starting point. These are part of the Windows SDK but can also be downloaded separately here.

Yeah I know. I already looked as those too. I think my main issue is a motivational one: do I really want to start another project at this time ???

As the person who came up with the original idea that resulted in the DC Bass Apple Lossless directshow filter (and I believe all the other supposed variants are merely codec packs repackaging it), I too would like to see a Media Foundation successor. (As an aside for anyone else reading this thread, the existing directshow filter works fine for playing Apple Lossless in WMP and Media Center but not for streaming.)

If someone is interested in taking this up, apart from the source to the DC Bass directshow filter which was based on the original revrse engineering of Apple Lossless, Apple have since released their own Apple Lossless source code as open source. Apple's code is not as it stands in the form of a directshow or media foundation codec and would need to be wrapped up in to a media foundation form. See http://alac.macosforge.org/