[MPlayer-cygwin]

[Stefan Gürtler]

Dear S.Smith
Looks like somebody gets easily pissed, here.
Please keep in mind, though, that I never told you to do it like I
suggested.
In fact I pointed out that my way worked on Win98 and I stated that it might
be different on other versions of Windows. Still I thought it might be of a
interest for you, as it - maybe - allows one to get it working (or
installing) without having to copy a dll to the windows system folders,
which people without root-privilege can not do, as far as I know, on your
WinNT. This may not concern you on your own system, but it might be
interesting for other people reading this mailarchive while e.g. looking for
help to solve their problems. Furthermore it allows you, - at least in the
case of real-codecs - to have mplayer and all the dlls it needs together in
its own directory, so that you can move around the program (e.g. from one of
your computers to the next, or from one installation of the OS to the next)
by just copying the folder. No need to distribute other files into various
folders of your computer. That makes it even possible to run it from a
CD-Rom without having to copy/install any file onto your computer after all,
which i think is quite smart.
I am sorry for misspelling / mixing up "c" and "s" on  your first name - at
least I assumed that this is your first name, considering your email address
(From: "Sycotic Smith" <sycotic at linuxmail.org>) and the way you signed your
mail (S. Smith).
Furthermore I am sorry that I forgot to mention/list your Windows NT
together with its successors Win2k and WinXP when telling you to try out to
get it working.

Yours Stefan Gürtler


----- Original Message -----
From: "Sycotic Smith" <sycotic at linuxmail.org>
To: "Win32/CygWin porting" <mplayer-cygwin at mplayerhq.hu>
Sent: Friday, August 15, 2003 5:15 PM
Subject: Re: [MPlayer-cygwin]


> > 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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