[MPlayer-cygwin] Is it worth compiling mplayerforperformanceimprovement?

[Sascha Sommer]

> I have tryed the mplayer with several video files. including sorensen v3,
> rv40 and divx/xvid.
> All ok. Only a problem with a mpg-file:
> 
> mplayer *.mpg > mpgout.txt

[...] 
> Give error-message:
> The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec.

This message is normal. That is because mplayer trys to find
a hwdecoder card first.
 
> Playback starts nevertheless with a bit of green lines at the top of the
> movie.
> Older versions just crashed (sig11 in decode_video), so this is a
> improvement :-)
> 
> All builds do not like ogg files. sigg11 in handel_playlist
> 
[...]

Seems like the content detection doesn't work with those specific files.
It works for mine.
Use -demuxer 18 as a workaround

Sascha