Wikipedia:Peer review/DirectShow/archive1

DirectShow
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)


 * a) could do with some coverage of Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) b) could do with references, e.g. using 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)

-- Ryan Norton T 07:43, 17 August 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
 * 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)