[MPlayer-users] Can the bmovl filter be compiled (and used) on windows?

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 02:03:48PM +0200, bart.vandeenen at gmail.com wrote:
> the bmovl filter works like a charm on Linux, and I was wondering if there's a 
> way to make it work on Windows; it seems to be excluded from the compile 
> because there's no posix select() defined for Windows. 

The select is probably the smaller issue, the filter relies on fifos,
while something like that exists on Windows, too, it works quite
differently. Cygwin might emulate all these things though, so it might
be possible to hack an MPlayer built with cygwin to support it - I
personally won't try though.

> Or is there maybe another overlay filter for windows?

There is a bmovl2 filter out there that may or may not work on Windows.
Then there is also MPlayer's internal overlay system and -vf ass, but
almost none of the functionality is exposed, currently only the
osd_show_property_text and osd_show_text slave commands are available.

Greetings,
Reimar Döffinger