[MPlayer-cygwin]

[Sycotic Smith]

> We already had the topic of how to get to work real and QT for the
> MinGW-port of MPlayer.
> (You can have a look at the Archive and search for the thread
> "[MPlayer-cygwin] Error loading codecs/drv43260.dll")
> It is right that the real-dll need the pncrt.dll to work, as the codec-dll
> tries to open it.

I have read these many times.  In my case, *I DO NOT NEED PNCRT.DLL* on my NT4 machine. I searched my machine 4 times PRIOR to installing any codecs, AND prior to installing any Win32 version of RealPlayer/RealOne, and it worked with what I did below.  In *MY* case, as I said previous, the dlls/libs WERE in the right places, with-codecsdir was specified, etc. etc. etc. but they would not work until:

a) I chmod'd them from within Cygwin to be WORLD-WRITABLE
b) I chown'd them to the 'Administrator.Administrators' (this really shouldn't be necessary, but)
c) Held my breath for 5 minutes, with one hand on the monitor and the other on my genitals, and
d) Spun around in my chair 5 times while reciting 'It will work, it has to work.'

> The trick to get QT to work is quite similar. I found that peace of
> information (forgott where i got it from, maybe from mplayers ftp-server):
> 
> How to get WIN32 QuickTime audio/video codecs working with MPlayer?
> ===================================================================
> 
> 1. Get MPlayer CVS (read the docs how to...), and compile this way:
>    ./configure --enable-qtx-codecs --enable-win32
>    make
> 
> 2. Get the QuickTime DLLs pack:
>    QT6 DLLs (should be faster):
>      http://www.mplayerhq.hu/~alex/codecs/qt6dlls.tar.bz2
>    QT5 DLLs (we (developers) use this):
>      http://www.mplayerhq.hu/~alex/codecs/qt5dlls.tar.bz2
>    Or if you have already downloaded the qt-dotwine.tar.bz2,
>    you can use it too.
>    NOTE: qt6-dlls.tar.bz2 from releases/ doesn't contains qtmlClient.dll!
> 
> 3. Extract the files:
>    Normally the WIN32 codecs directory is the following: /usr/lib/win32
>    Extract the QuickTime.qts, QuickTimeEssentials.qtx and qtmlClient.dll
>    to that dir (or to that what you have configured).
>    (In case of qt-dotwine.tar.bz2, the dlls can be found in
>    .wine/fake_windows/Windows/System/ directory)
> 
> 3a. Extract the extras:
>    If you want to be _really_ up-to-date, you can also copy the not-yet
>    supported codecs too: 3ivx Delta 3.5.qtx, On2_VP3.qtx, ZyGoVideo.qtx,
>    BeHereiVideo.qtx. They can be found in the
>    http://www.mplayerhq.hu/~alex/codecs/qtextras.tar.bz2 archive.
> 
> 4. It should work now.
>    Else send real _bugreports_ to the mplayer-users at mplayerhq.hu list!
>    (and only to that one!) And please include that which codecpack have you
>    chosen.
> 
> I got it working by simply copying the qtmlClient.dll from mplayers
> ftp-server to my \Windows\System32 directory. The other dlls went to the
> codecs folder spezified via --with-codecsdir. This works fine on my
> Windows98. Maybe you have to try other system-folders in Win2k and WinXP.
> Keep in mind that the mentioned configure-parameter --enable-qtx-codecs  was
> renamed to --enable-qtx
> 
> Ciao sagt Stefan

Again, see my instructions above for an *NT4* install.  The same worked *FOR ME.*

Thank you for your concern, play on.

/S. Smith
PS. My name is _NOT_ 'Sycotis.' If you get one thing right, at least it should be THAT.  It's even already there for you if you reply to my messages and/or one I have replied on.

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