[MPlayer-users] CygWin doc to be added under DOCS/tech

Arpi arpi at thot.banki.hu
Mon Jun 24 23:44:02 CEST 2002


Hi,

> Cons/Drawbacks:
> 
>  As any of the authors will tell you, MPlayer/MEncoder is designed as a 
>  Linux/BSD/*NIX player/encoder, so there are a few limitations to using 
>  this software under a Wind*ws platform.  Most are due to needing several 
>  third-party software packages that can cost lots of money, or you have to 
>  pull teeth to find.  Many vo's are not available due to system 
>  limitations, for example there is currently no FBdev, SVGAlib, VESA,
>  etc support.

why don't you port/fix vidix? afair, Nick said it works on his windows box.
it would be interesting using direct hw access to matrox/ati cards on win2k


A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team

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