[MPlayer-cygwin] MinGW howto

[Diego Biurrun]

Sascha Sommer schrieb:

> Nice. What about adding a few tips to get best quality/performance on
> windows?
> "-double" to prefent flickering osd

OK

> "-autosync 100" to make playback smoother

Any examples for this?  I cannot see a difference.  Maybe this is system 
specific?

> "-quiet" for win98 systems where the terminal eats 100% cpu

It's there in the Cygwin section..   Does this also affect MinGW?

> "-dr" for direct rendering

That's not really Windows specific, is it?  BTW, how can I tell if 
MPlayer is using dr or not?  I cannot find anything in the -v log...

> [...]

Anything else?

Diego

>>I have reworked the Windows (formerly Cygwin) part of the ports section,
>>here it is since some folks were interested in it.  Comments and
>>additions welcome.
>>
>>Diego
>>
>>
>>6.6 Windows
>>
>>Yes, MPlayer runs on Windows under Cygwin and MinGW. It does not have a
>>GUI yet, but the command line version is almost completely functional.
>>Patches are always welcome. You should check out the mplayer-cygwin
>>mailing list for help and latest information.
>>
>>Best results are achieved with the native DirectX video output driver
>>(-vo directx) and the native Windows waveout audio driver (-ao win32) as
>>OpenGL does not work and SDL is known to distort sound and image or
>>crash on some systems. You can make the movie window stay on top with
>>-vo directx:ontop. If the image is distorted, try turning off hardware
>>acceleration with -vo directx:noaccel. Download DirectX 7 header files
>>to compile the DirectX video output driver.
>>
>>QuickTime DLLs and Real Win32 codecs (not Real Linux codecs) also work.
>>Compile with --enable-qtx and --enable-real and put the codecs into the
>>default Windows DLL location, C:\WINNT\system32 or C:\Windows\system
>>depending on your Windows version.
>>
>>There are precompiled binary versions made by Sascha Sommer available
>>for download from our homepage. Joey Parrish has been making unofficial
>>Windows packages complete with installer.
>>
>>
>>6.6.1 Cygwin
>>
>>Cygwin versions prior to 1.5.0 do not include inttypes.h. You will have
>>to copy or symlink etc/cygwin_inttypes.h from the MPlayer source
>>directory to /usr/include/inttypes.h in order to make MPlayer compile.
>>
>>DirectX header files need to be extracted to /usr/include/ or
>>/usr/local/include/.
>>
>>Instructions and files for making SDL run under Cygwin can be found on
>>the libsdl site.
>>
>>You can play VCDs by playing the .DAT or .MPG files that Windows exposes
>>on VCDs. It works like this (adjust for the drive letter of your CD-ROM):
>>
>>mplayer d:/mpegav/avseq01.dat
>>
>>mplayer /cygdrive/d/MPEG2/AVSEQ01.MPG
>>
>>DVDs also work, just set the DVD device correctly to whatever your
>>CD-ROM device is:
>>
>>mplayer dvd://<title> -dvd-device '\\.\d:'
>>
>>The Cygwin console is rather slow. Redirecting output or using the
>>-quiet option has been reported to improve performance.
>>
>>
>>6.6.2 MinGW
>>
>>Installing a version of MinGW that could compile MPlayer used to be
>>quite tricky, but only consists of three simple steps now and should
>>work out of the box soon.
>>
>>    1. Install MinGW 3.0.0 or later.
>>    2. Install MSYS 1.0.9 or later and tell the MSYS postinstall that
>>       MinGW is installed.
>>    3. Replace /mingw/include/sys/types.h with this types.h.
>>
>>Extract DirectX header files to /mingw/include/.
>>
>>VCDs and DVDs work almost like Cygwin (adjust for the drive letter of
>>your CD-ROM):
>>
>>mplayer d:/mpegav/avseq01.dat
>>
>>mplayer /d/MPEG2/AVSEQ01.MPG
>>
>>mplayer dvd://<title> -dvd-device /d/