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I’ve been tinkering with Breakaway Live using the Winamp plugin version of the Edcast (formerly Oddcast) encoder. Edcast will throw an error complaining it can’t find certain files unless all support files (various dll’s) are in the Breakaway Live directory. Not sure if that’s a limitation of Breakaway or Edcast. Not a big deal, but it would nice to keep the encoder’s files in their own folder.
It’s not really a limitation of either, because it’s being used in a way that wasn’t originally intended. But that being said… I’m an official developer in the Oddsock project, and know Ed personally. 😆 Dammit I’m everywhere. But yeah…
EdCast could probably be made to work properly in the way you want, with a bit of changes to how it looks for the DLLs that it loads during init of EdCastLib. It’s open source ya know. 😉
[quote author=”JesseG”]…It’s open source ya know. 😉[/quote]
Well, I tinker with Delphi but I’m not willing to tackle C++ yet! C++ source code gives me a headache. 🙂It could be said to be a limitation of either EdCast, or the operating system itself.
When a program requests to open a file without specifying a folder, the system looks for the file in the "Current Directory". Current Directory will be the Breakaway Directory. If you were to load EdCast from Winamp, then the current directory would be the Winamp directory (as opposed to the WinampPlugins directory).
This is the default operating system behaviour. In my programs, I specifically counteract this behaviour, by specifying the path of the executable, every time I open a file. This is why the INI files (for example) will always end up right next to the executable with my programs (unless you’re running Vista with virtualization, but that’s a different story). It’s more complicated for the programmer, but easier for the user to manage, so i do it routinely — but not everyone does.
However, DLL files are pretty small. There’s no harm in placing the appropriate files in the Breakaway folder.
///Leif
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