[MPlayer-cygwin] Some questions about the MinGW port

[newsalex]

Sascha Sommer wrote:

>Hi,
>
>On Thursday 23 December 2004 22:55, NoiseEHC wrote:
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>>Hello!
>>
>>I am currentry using MPlayer instead of any win32 players since all are
>>buggy on win2003 server or are slow like hell.
>>The switch occured when I succesfully installed the new DivX decoder
>>which was too slow. I then uninstalled it and
>>after that the DirectShow registration was messed up.
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>;)
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>>My only problem is that every time I start a video I have to set
>>contrast/brightness/etc since the overlay window
>>was left with some random values. I would like to fix that but currently
>>I am not able to compile the project.
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>Maybe you don't even need to recompile MPlayer for this,
>just set
>brightness=value
>contrast=value
>etc. in your mplayer/config file
>Check man_page.html for details.
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>>Dear Sascha Sommer,
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>>can you provide me the exact options you use to comple the suff can be
>>found here, please?
>>http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/win32-beta/
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>>I would like to know the dependencies I should intall to MinGW, since I
>>am a decent win32 programmer but do
>>not know anything about unix environments... For example downloaded
>>zlib-1.2.1-mingw32.tar.gz and all I have
>>to do is to extract the include and lib directories to the include and
>>lib folders? Also would like to know the URLs
>>of those packages.
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>Maybe it is the best you start with the prebuild libraries Reimar sent to this 
>list, but you are right I should write some build howto that explains the 
>various tweaks needed to compile the libs on mingw. Hopefully I find a bit of 
>time for this during the christmas holidays.
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I would appreciate a build howto very much too.
Please feel encouraged to write one!

Regards,
Alex