[MPlayer-cygwin] Re: builds but thinks avi file has errors

[Roger Levy]

Diego,
I think you've consistently missed a point that I've made several times -
mplayer is reporting stream errors in its command window output.  Therefore the
problem is before the display stage.  I have used -vo directx:noaccel and there
has been no difference.  I have built under Windows 98 which you said is
Sascha's development platform and there has been no difference.  Also, as much
as I would like to see Sascha have Windows 2000, if the identical problem exists
in Windows 98, then it is not a Windows 2000 specific problem and a contribution
would not help.  Note that the same stream plays perfectly on mplayer that I
built under Linux.  See earlier mail in this thread for the stream errors that
mplayer reports.

BTW, I am forbidden from buying Windows 2000 because Lucent has a site license
for it so any individual purchases are blocked.  That puts me in the same
position as you or Sascha - we could buy it out of our own pocket. 
Unfortunately, college bills of more than $36,000/year keep me at the verge of
starvation so I can't do it.

Finally, I don't understand the point about a PCI video card.  Are you saying
Sascha doesn't have one or I should get one?  I have used systems with both PCI
and AGP video and I still get the same bad results.

Roger Levy

> Roger H. Levy writes:
>  > I corrected some procedural problems I had in building mplayer, i.e. I
>  > have my DX includes in the right place and am using cygwin_inttypes.h
>  > renamed to inttypes.h.  However, the results have not changed since my
>  > first CygWin build - the player I build under either Win2000 or Win98
>  > can not properly play a file that I encoded on RedHat Linux and which
>  > plays perfectly on that machine.  Mplayer indicates lots of stream
>  > errors and the picture tears whereas everything is perfect in Linux.
> 
> -vo directx:noaccel should help you, btw are you using SDL or directx?
> SDL might be an alternative you might want to try, -vo sdl.
> 
> Otherwise upload those files and hope that Sascha Sommer bothers to
> have a look at them.
> 
>  > Are there any pre-built versions of the player for CygWin?
> 
> No.
> 
>  > My boss wants to see something.
> 
> You will have to tell him that he will either have to support Cygwin
> development or live with the current state of affairs.  The Cygwin
> port is like that at the moment.  It seems to work OK for some people,
> for others (like me) it does not.  For those that have enough
> programming skills to improve the situation it apparently works ok and
> they have no great motivation to further work on the port..
> 
> Sorry I say that again but since you stress again just how important
> this is to your boss..  Shelling out less than 200$ should not hurt
> him then or go for that PCI VGA card - should not cost more than 30-40
> bucks.
> 
> Other than that I have no more advice for you, sorry.
> 
> Diego