foo_dshow
DirectShow playback for Foobar2000
WARNING Consider this very experimental. It will break. It will lock your Foobar sometimes. This page is old, I'm not optimistic about this plug in anymore. But... it's here just incase someone needs it.
foo_dshow lets you listen to additional file formats not supported by Foobar2000 through Microsoft DirectShow. At present it tries to playback AVI, MPEG, WM, WMA (no DRM), WMV, ASF, RM, RA, RV, MOV, QT, and DSHOW extensions. Real and Quicktime formats will need Real Alternative and Quicktime Alternative. Ideally in the future these extensions will be user definable. Note that for videos, only the audio portion is played.
There are quite a few issues, biggest are:
Does not use Foobar's reader. This means no songs in archives, no full-file
buffering, etc.
Seeking is a little nasty. Not sure what's the problem there.
No streaming support. It should have worked but it doesn't. Haven't found the
problem yet.
5+ channels are messed up and will probably deadlock.
Only tested on 2000/XP I don't know what 98/ME will do with this.
Download:
foo_dshow 1.0.0 for Foobar2000 0.8.x