[MPlayer-cygwin] MinGW howto

[Sascha Sommer]

Nice. What about adding a few tips to get best quality/performance on
windows?
"-double" to prefent flickering osd
"-autosync 100" to make playback smoother
"-quiet" for win98 systems where the terminal eats 100% cpu
"-dr" for direct rendering
[...]

Sascha


> Hi!
>
> I have reworked the Windows (formerly Cygwin) part of the ports section,
> here it is since some folks were interested in it.  Comments and
> additions welcome.
>
> Diego
>
>
> 6.6 Windows
>
> Yes, MPlayer runs on Windows under Cygwin and MinGW. It does not have a
> GUI yet, but the command line version is almost completely functional.
> Patches are always welcome. You should check out the mplayer-cygwin
> mailing list for help and latest information.
>
> Best results are achieved with the native DirectX video output driver
> (-vo directx) and the native Windows waveout audio driver (-ao win32) as
> OpenGL does not work and SDL is known to distort sound and image or
> crash on some systems. You can make the movie window stay on top with
> -vo directx:ontop. If the image is distorted, try turning off hardware
> acceleration with -vo directx:noaccel. Download DirectX 7 header files
> to compile the DirectX video output driver.
>
> QuickTime DLLs and Real Win32 codecs (not Real Linux codecs) also work.
> Compile with --enable-qtx and --enable-real and put the codecs into the
> default Windows DLL location, C:\WINNT\system32 or C:\Windows\system
> depending on your Windows version.
>
> There are precompiled binary versions made by Sascha Sommer available
> for download from our homepage. Joey Parrish has been making unofficial
> Windows packages complete with installer.
>
>
> 6.6.1 Cygwin
>
> Cygwin versions prior to 1.5.0 do not include inttypes.h. You will have
> to copy or symlink etc/cygwin_inttypes.h from the MPlayer source
> directory to /usr/include/inttypes.h in order to make MPlayer compile.
>
> DirectX header files need to be extracted to /usr/include/ or
> /usr/local/include/.
>
> Instructions and files for making SDL run under Cygwin can be found on
> the libsdl site.
>
> You can play VCDs by playing the .DAT or .MPG files that Windows exposes
> on VCDs. It works like this (adjust for the drive letter of your CD-ROM):
>
> mplayer d:/mpegav/avseq01.dat
>
> mplayer /cygdrive/d/MPEG2/AVSEQ01.MPG
>
> DVDs also work, just set the DVD device correctly to whatever your
> CD-ROM device is:
>
> mplayer dvd://<title> -dvd-device '\\.\d:'
>
> The Cygwin console is rather slow. Redirecting output or using the
> -quiet option has been reported to improve performance.
>
>
> 6.6.2 MinGW
>
> Installing a version of MinGW that could compile MPlayer used to be
> quite tricky, but only consists of three simple steps now and should
> work out of the box soon.
>
>     1. Install MinGW 3.0.0 or later.
>     2. Install MSYS 1.0.9 or later and tell the MSYS postinstall that
>        MinGW is installed.
>     3. Replace /mingw/include/sys/types.h with this types.h.
>
> Extract DirectX header files to /mingw/include/.
>
> VCDs and DVDs work almost like Cygwin (adjust for the drive letter of
> your CD-ROM):
>
> mplayer d:/mpegav/avseq01.dat
>
> mplayer /d/MPEG2/AVSEQ01.MPG
>
> mplayer dvd://<title> -dvd-device /d/
>
>
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