[MPlayer-cygwin] faad2 support on mingw port?

[Frank Stöckl]

At 21:29 24.08.2003 -0500, you wrote:
>using the MPlayer dev-CVS-030630-12:15-3.2 (C) 2000-2003 -rpßd Gere÷ffy 
>(see DOCS)
>mingw port, how would one get faad working?
>
>also, for anyone interested getting mplayer to work globally (in any 
>directory) across win2000
>in command prompt...
>
>put mplayer in some dir (i used c:\programs\ )then go to control panel > 
>system >
>advanced> enviroment variables> then  make a new variable PATH for your user
>or for system, and pop c:\programs\;C:\programs\mplayer in there. (changes 
>dont take
>effect until you reopen your command prompt)
>
>
>mplayer works wonderfully on windows, now to figure out how to make it my 
>default program
>for opening files/streams and i will be super happy ;0


Go on Extras => Folder Options => File Types
Then pick up AVI for example from the list, if it doesn't exist, create a 
new filetype called AVI.

Many filetypes are linked, that means that the same application will be 
used to handle the filetype than another.
More about that later.

Now after you selected AVI click on "Advanced".
All actions are listed what Windows will offer you to do with a AVI file.
The default action is "open" (the name doesn't really matter, you can also 
call it kindergarten, but open is more like... standart *g*)

Now select the "open" entry in the list and click on "edit".
You will have to enter an application which will handle this file type, 
let's take an example from me:
"C:\WINNT\unix\mplayer.exe"  -vo directx:ontop "%1"

 From now on mplayer will be called. In addition i added the ontop option 
to prevent the window from hidden by others.
Really important are the "%1". If you leave out the "" mplayer won't be 
able to handle file names containing blanks (" ") because mplayer thinks 
that after the blank the filename ends.

I mentioned linked file types. Now every linked filetype to avi will call 
mplayer, too so you don't have to redo the procedure for every media 
filetype you know, normally it is ok to change the AVI, MPEG and ASF handler.

BTW: mplayer is also able to handle "corrupt" BIN files.
Another nice action will be when you use edonkey/mldonkey/emule...whatever 
your religion is... simply add the extension .PART and you'll be able to 
watch 90% of the undone files very comfortable by clicking on it :-).


Hope that helps.
Frank


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