[MPlayer-cygwin] Cygwin port won't play on other PC

Diego Biurrun diego at biurrun.de
Thu Jul 29 13:09:12 CEST 2004


Stefan Gürtler writes:
> 
> Is there a possibility to get the -dumplog option into normal mingw builds.
> It can be very helpfull when there are problems while dropping clips on
> mplayer.exe.
> Then it is
> 1. Editing mplayer/config                #easy
> 2. Drop the file onto mplayer.exe    #easy
> 3. reading log.txt                            #easy

This is a hack and you should just set up your system properly to deal
with it.

> instead of
> 1. Open command.com / cmd.exe    #easy
> 2. Change to the placer where mplayer is    #tedious

Set up a cmd.exe that starts in that dir or just put mplayer.exe in
your path.

> 3. typ mplayer.exe C:\Very\long\and\tedious\path\to\movie.ext > log.txt
> #tedious

Just open a command prompt in the folder with your movie, you do have
mplayer.exe in your patch, haven't you?

To make this even easier, go to

http://biurrun.de/NT/tips+tricks.html#console

and install shell.reg.  This will add a context menu entry into the
Windows explorer that opens a command prompt in the current folder.

> #command.com can only show few lines, no scrolling back. Therefore > log.txt
> 4. view log.txt                                #easy

cmd.exe can show many many lines of scrollback, just set it up
properly.

Diego




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