[Mplayer-cvslog] CVS: main/DOCS/xml/en ports.xml,1.9,1.10

Diego Biurrun CVS diego at mplayerhq.hu
Sun Aug 17 22:48:41 CEST 2003


Update of /cvsroot/mplayer/main/DOCS/xml/en
In directory mail:/var/tmp.root/cvs-serv21942/xml/en

Modified Files:
	ports.xml 
Log Message:
Binary codecs finally work as they should on Windows.


Index: ports.xml
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RCS file: /cvsroot/mplayer/main/DOCS/xml/en/ports.xml,v
retrieving revision 1.9
retrieving revision 1.10
diff -u -r1.9 -r1.10
--- ports.xml	17 Aug 2003 18:10:42 -0000	1.9
+++ ports.xml	17 Aug 2003 20:48:38 -0000	1.10
@@ -278,14 +278,13 @@
   <ulink url="http://www.videolan.org/vlc/dx7headers.tgz">DirectX 7 header files</ulink>
   to compile the DirectX video output driver.</para>
 
-<para>QuickTime DLLx and Real Win32 codecs (not Real Linux codecs) also work.
-  Compile with <option>--enable-qtx</option>
-  and <option>--enable-real</option> and put the codecs into the
-  default Windows DLL location,
-  <filename class="directory">C:\WINNT\system32</filename> or
-  <filename class="directory">C:\Windows\system</filename> depending on your
-  Windows version. We have had some reports that Real DLLs need to be
-  writable by the user running MPlayer, but only on some systems.</para>
+<para>Win32 codecs, QuickTime DLLs and Real Win32 codecs (not Real Linux codecs)
+  also work. Put the codecs somewhere in your path or pass
+  <option>--with-codecsdir=c:/path/to/your/codecs</option> (alternatively
+  <option>--with-codecsdir=/path/to/your/codecs</option> only on Cygwin) to
+  <filename>configure</filename>. We have had some reports that Real DLLs need
+  to be writable by the user running MPlayer, but only on some systems. Try
+  making them writable if you have problems.</para>
 
 <para>The Cygwin/MinGW console is rather slow. Redirecting output or using
   the <option>-quiet</option> option has been reported to improve performance



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