Random code-snippets from VSFilter

I’ve been reading and hacking on the VSFilter code more than is probably healthy, and have over the time found a lot of funny/strange clips of code.

For example, this line in GFN.cpp (Get File Name):

CString filename = title + \_T(".nooneexpectsthespanishinquisition");

In VSFilter.cpp you can find this gem:

/*removeme*/
JajDeGonoszVagyok();

Do you know the “opaque box” background style supported? As an alternative to wide outlines? Well here’s how it’s created:

CStringW str;
str.Format(L"m %d %d l %d %d %d %d %d %d",
 -w, -w,
 m\_width+w, -w,
 m\_width+w, m\_ascent+m\_descent+w,
 -w, m\_ascent+m\_descent+w);

m\_pOpaqueBox = new CPolygon(style, str, 0, 0, 0, 1.0/8, 1.0/8, 0);

Yup, it creates a drawing object, by a string. While it is a bit clever (the alternative would be much more code) it has some bad problems which you may have seen if you’ve used it yourself: If for any reason it needs to create multiple boxes, such as when you have multiple lines, the boxes will overlap and a non-zero alpha will make that look really bad.

I wonder how long this line has been sitting there:

// TODO: handle collisions == 1 (reversed collisions)

Maybe pre-buffering could be more useful if this was actually implemented:

STDMETHODIMP\_(bool) CRenderedTextSubtitle::IsAnimated(POSITION pos)
{
 // TODO
 return(true);
}

I still find this the weirddest part… there is a CPP file with a stange name. It contains among other things this function:

#define LEN1 (countof(str1))
#define LEN11 (countof(str1[0]))
#define LEN2 (countof(str2))
#define LEN3 (countof(str3))

static void dencode()
{
 int i, j;
 for(i = 0; i < LEN1; i++) for(j = 0; j < LEN11; j++) str1[i][j] ^= 0x12;
 for(i = 0; i < LEN2; i++) str2[i] ^= 0x34;
 for(i = 0; i < LEN3; i++) str3[i] ^= 0x56;
}

If you think it looks like XOR en/decryption you’re right. That’s exactly what it is.

It’s from the file containing the void JajDeGonoszVagyok() function, and it’s called “valami.cpp”. This file also contains one other strangely named function: bool HmGyanusVagyTeNekem(IPin* pPin)

Both of those functions decrypt some strings written as arrays of numbers. These strings are the names of registry keys of other DirectShow filters. The JajDeGonoszVagyok function then detects the highest merit of all those filters and makes sure that DirectVobSub itself gets a merit higher than any of those… I think this is the DirectShow version of the “law of the jungle”.