[MPlayer-cygwin] vidix support on Windows XP

[Diego Biurrun]

Sascha Sommer writes:
> > Sascha Sommer writes:
> >  > current mplayer cvs now supports vidix on windows xp/2000/nt.
> >  > To make it work you need to configure mplayer with --enable-vidix
> >  > Then download
> >  > http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/win32-beta/dhahelper.sys
> >  > and copy it to the libdha/dhahelperwin dir.
> >  > Open msys console and change to that dir. Then type gcc -o dhasetup.exe
> >  > dhasetup.c and execute "dhasetup.exe install" as Administrator.
> >
> > If I run dhasetup.exe as a power user I get the message
> >
> >   can't find dhahelper.sys
> >
> > which is hardly accurate, it is in the current directory.  I just
> > cannot write to the target directory.  A somewhat more clueful error
> > message would be a good thing.
> 
> What would you propose?
> Or even better feel free to commit a better message yourself ;)

Done.

> >  > After that you will have to reboot.
> >  > When your done, copy the .so files from vidix/drivers to the
> mplayer/vidix
> >  > dir relative
> >  > to your mplayer.exe. After that you should be able to play movies
> with -vo
> >  > winvidix
> >
> > Works here with a Matrox G550, good work! :-)
> >
> > Some problems remain, though.  When I press "f" to switch to
> > fullscreen mode I get a black screen.  I "Alt-Tab" back to the MinGW
> > console and then back to the fullscreen MPlayer and the video shows.
> > I press "f" again and the windowed MPlayer shows only the colorkey.
> > After pressing "Alt-Tab" twice to switch to the console and back to
> > the MPlayer window the video shows in the windowed MPlayer...
> >
> 
> Does it work if you change vo_winvidix.c that it calls vidix_start after
> setting the colorkey. Eg move line 98 to line 111?

No, unfortunately this does not help.  Does anybody else have further
clues?

Diego