[MPlayer-cygwin] mingw compile/mplayer binary codecs question

[Stefan Gürtler]

> i compiled a mingw mplayer with binary real support, with i believe
> --with-codecsdir=/c/programs/mplayer/codecs but playing anything gives me
>
> Opening video decoder: [realvid] RealVideo decoder
> realvideo codec id: 0x30202002  sub-id: 0x01099030
> opening win32 dll 'drv3.so.6.0'
> win32 real codec handle=00000000
> Error loading dll
> ERROR: Could not open required DirectShow codec drv3.so.6.0.
> Read the RealVideo section of the DOCS!
> VDecoder init failed :(
> Opening video decoder: [realvid] RealVideo decoder
> realvideo codec id: 0x30202002  sub-id: 0x01099030
> opening win32 dll 'drv33260.dll'
> win32 real codec handle=00000000
> Error loading dll
> ERROR: Could not open required DirectShow codec drv33260.dll.
> Read the RealVideo section of the DOCS!
> VDecoder init failed :(
> Cannot find codec matching selected -vo and video format 0x30335652.
> Read DOCS/HTML/en/codecs.html!
>
> is there anyway to find out where mplayer is trying to find the codec?
>
> the codecs are there, and the dir is linked as a system PATH...
> i know its probably built wrong, but i would like to find out where
> i specified the codecs. (maybe get it to show up with -v -v -v or
something?)
> other mplayers in the same dir work fine... codecs.conf is fine... help?
>
Do you have the pncrt.dll, too?
Depending on your Windows version, you have to have pncrt.dll e.g. next to
mplayer.exe on Windows98. Sycotic Smith needed to put the dlls into the
Windows\System directory, make them owned by Adminstrator and read and
writeable for all (if i remember right) to be able to use them on NT4. So
please search the mailinglist and verify what you have to do for your OS.

Stefan Gürtler