This is not by me.

http://haali.net/fb2k

I didn't tried foo_input_mkx.dll yet cause i don't have the files. but "listen" to VDO file (MKV AVI it's not playing VDO part) with foobar is surprisingly pretty neat. I tried throw some MKV to foobar and it's show up as chapter (never tried this before). when i play them, ffdshow popup and it can play just fine with gapless playback too.

I can't see real use for direct show input plugin. Except for listening for music from clips if you're too lazy to demux it.

As for matroska plugin good old foo_input_matroska superseeds it. This one has quite weird tagging scheme. I don't see any reason to retag file which was muxed with cue and should have at least %artist%, %album% and %title% info. Actually I don't know if it has any tagging support at all, I've deleted it right after reloading my mka files returned empty tags values.

Since this is the not-banned method of playing back matroska I tried this plugin. It works pretty well, it even shows embedded album art pictures. Only problem is that it only provides read-only abilities for matroska, meaning I can't rewrite file tags inside foobar2k. Does anyone know if there are plans of adding writing functionality?

@Peter or Haali



When I use "File Operations" in fb2k_v0.9.5.2 to move Matroska files, I get a file sharing violation. I am using foo_input_mkx.dll version 0.1. Is this a known limitation with this plugin? If it is known will it be fixed soon?



Thanks!