[MPlayer-cygwin] mplayer fatal error on windows 98

[Rune Petersen]

Hi,
this error is because you are using an old version of DirectX.
Installing DirectX 7 or later shuld fix it.

The error message may need some improving.

Rune Petersen

Guillaume LAURENS wrote:
> hello,
> I try to use mplayer on windows 98.
> But I get a fatal error.
> Can you help me please?
> 
> -->When I run "mplayer a.avi" I get :
> <vo_directx><FATAL ERROR>failed geting proc address: DirectDrawCreateEx
> Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device.