Proposed: Add WMF for windows media playback

Context and Problem Statement

We don’t have any good ways of playing video and also large 4k videos.

Describe the proposed option and how it helps to overcome the problem or limitation

Add WMF support to godot for the windows platform.

Describe how your proposal will work, with code, pseudo-code, mock-ups, or diagrams

See https://github.com/V-Sekai/godot/tree/wmf

Positive Consequences

Can play videos.

OS platform supported playback will be hardware accelerated.

Negative Consequences

No response

Option graveyard

No response

If this enhancement will not be used often, can it be worked around with a few lines of script?

It’s not a few lines.

Is there a reason why this should be core and done by us?

I found this!

References

V-Sekai

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