[MPlayer-cygwin] Using mplayer with another app + problems withstdin

[Chhaya, Harshal]

> I don't thinks so but stdin reading doesn't work very well 
> with the mingw port. I'm not sure where the problem is, but you 
> could try to compile mplayer yourself with cygwin. It should work 
> there.
> 
> Sascha

Sascha,

Thanks for that great tip. I found a CygWin port at 
http://armory.nicewarrior.org/projects/cygmp/ but it is somewhat 
old (from Nov 2003).

The stdin stuff works great on that release so looks like CygWin 
is the way to go. However, the above version seems to have some 
problems. Maybe it is a codec problem but the video playback had
some very noticeable block artifacts.

Is there a later build available?

Or if I want to build it myself, is there a guide on the steps involved?

Thanks again,
Harshal