[MPlayer-cygwin] [mingw] quicktime codecs not found in codecs dir

Sascha Sommer saschasommer at freenet.de
Sat Sep 20 16:25:34 CEST 2003


> they are found in the system32 dir but not codecs/
> e.g. c:\programs\mplayer\mplayer.exe wont find quicktime
> in c:\programs\mplayer\codecs but in c:\WINNT\system32 it
> works.
>

Afair the problem is that the dlls have their own searchfunctions for qtx
files, that
always searches in the system dir.
Therefore it is impossible to install them in the codecs dir without
patching the quicktime
dlls.

Sascha



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