[MPlayer-users] To SDL or not to SDL

[Josh]

On 7/8/2012 06:50, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> On 7 Jul 2012, at 05:37, Josh <joshf87 at live.com> wrote:
>> Can't find this Googling. I am thinking of removing SDL from my MPlayer build for Windows (mostly to reduce size). From what I can find it is just a wrapper, that SDL is useful in programs where the author doesn't have to do a lot of platform specific coding. Since MPlayer includes DirectX, Direct3D, GL & DSound video outputs it isn't really necessary.
> Well, it might be better maintained and for vos it also supports windib which does not use any Direct* stuff.
> But honestly I don't think anyone will miss it.
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The SDL lib I compiled resulted in a purplish square in the upper left 
corner, I didn't notice until well after distributing it. No one has 
said anything so far. I started using Sherpya's from his site and it 
worked perfect. I can't find any special instructions for compiling SDL 
for mplayer, could be he made modifications to his source, problem with 
gcc, or mingw.org's toolchain as a whole.