[MPlayer-dev-eng] packaging cygwin mplayer

[Sascha Sommer]

On Sunday 09 February 2003 20:43, Joey Parrish wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 02:30:25PM +0100, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > Joey Parrish wrote:
> >
> > Appears to work nicely in my tests.
> >
> > Configurable file associations will be welcome enhancement, though (Yes,
> > I already read your answer to this, just remarking).
>
> I haven't been able to find out how to do this with Inno yet, although
> I've seen it done in much more complicated script that uses an extended
> version of Inno with Pascal scripting.  If I can avoid that, I'd like
> to.  The GIMP for win32 is what I've been looking at for help, and it's
> much more complicated than what I need, so I have trouble hacking out
> the bits of code that ask for what files to associate.

I dunno with what tool ffdshow is packaged but it has support for 
configuration of file associations


> > Nice work, this is another important step towards world domination ;-)
>
> Speaking of domination, MPlayer should be able to replace RealPlayer.
> However, I haven't gotten the real dlls to work in cygwin yet.  I am
> still investigating why, but dlopen quits with error 126 (file not
> found, i think) with both of the following completely correct paths:
>   c:\program files\mplayer\conf\lib\real\sipr.dll
>   /cygdrive/c/program files/mplayer/conf/lib/real/sipr.dll
> and the MPlayer gets sig11.  When I compile with --enable-debug, it
> still gives error 126 from dlopen, but the sig11 goes away, so I have no
> idea where or why it happens.  Any suggestions for what to try next?
> I got these DLLs from mplayerhq on the codecs page as rp8codecs for
> win32.  Are these known to work at all under cygwin?  I've never tried
> before this.

You will have to comment out the #ifdef USE_WIN32DLLs
but it is only supported for video and crashes for me if linked to winmm.

S. Sommer