[MPlayer-cygwin] Joey's Cygwin package

[Sascha Sommer]

> From: Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de>
> > Hi!
> >
> > Joey, I'd write this to you in private, but I thought this might
> > interest a few more people here...
> >
> > I tried out your MPlayer package yesterday and I have to say it's very
> > nice.  I even installed it on a friend's computer and he has been quite
> > content with it.
> >
> > I have two suggestions, though.
> >
> > 1) Could you add an option like "open fullscreen" to the context menu?
> > I think this would be a nice goodie.
>
> I might have a bugreport for this (cvs), I have not been able to use
> [-fs|-vm|-zoom] without a sig11 as yet.  Switching works fine, tho.
>

-fs alone should work. Please fill a complete bugreport if it does not.

> > 2) Could you compile the package with --with-codecsdir=codecs and add a
> > codecs subdirectory to dir where MPlayer gets installed?  This way I
> > could easily drop codecs into that directory (or you might even provide
> > them with your package) and MPlayer could also play QT and Real files.
> > These file types should be added to the file type dialog on installation
> > then.
> > Diego
> In my case, this really only works for the non-QT/Real codecs.  These
still
> need to be in the $WINDOWS\SYSTEM[32] folder for them to work.  And to top
> it all off, in my cygwin anyway, they need to be owned by Administrator
group
> and be world WRITABLE to function.  All of the others worked fine in the
> $CODECSDIR fine, no matter the permissions.  Now, this could be only an
NT4
> issue, I still don't have any other win32 systems to try it on.  And, I am
> only speaking of cvs-mplayer, not Joey's win32-package, but it shouldn't
matter.
>
> Diego, is this something that should be added to the howto, as
troubleshooting
> maybe, in cases where the user 'has the codecs in the right place, but
still
> doesn't work?'
>

Yes, this definitly wouldn't hurt.

Sascha