[MPlayer-cygwin] Is it worth compiling mplayer forperformanceimprovement?

[Diego Biurrun]

Arpi writes:
 > > The easiest thing would be to use the binary packages from mingw.org.
 > > To get mplayer compiled you also need all the updates they provide and
 > > dx7header as well as sys/types.h from
 > > http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/win32-beta/contrib/
 > > You also have to install msys.
 > > Then you can ./configure mplayer with the msys console.
 > 
 > hmm, could you write a short HOWTO into docs/tech/ listing the steps
 > required to getting tools (with URLs) and compile mplayer with them?

I have wanted to write a MinGW section for the DOCS for some time, but
have refrained so far because the port is still alpha and you need to
manually update a few things in your MinGW environment.  The next
release of MinGW should contain them all and compiling MPlayer should
not be harder than on any *nix then.

Diego