[MPlayer-cygwin] Re: Mplayer win32 GUI questions

[Joey Parrish]

Frank Aurich wrote:
 > with Joeys patch ("40.winstuff.patch") from January and the code 
above I was able to make it work. If there's interest I can post a 
patch, although I will have to dig into diff first :)
 >
 > I'm quite happy it works, but the code is kinda hackish. I tried 
integrating the -console switch into MPlayer native parameter parsing 
engine, but failed. A) it didn't work and B) it somehow affected MPlayer 
being _very_ slow at times.
 > Is there any documentation how the parsing of the command line works?
 > Especially the format of the mplayer_opts[] array in cfg-mplayer.h 
would be interesting to know about.
 > How do I give a new commandline parameter a default value? Where gets 
decided to change this value (in my case this would be simply from 0 
(show no console) to 1 (show console))?

Default values are in cfg-mplayer.h along with the option definition.  
The reason it's slow is because throwing away stdout/stderr is much 
faster than printing it all.  I found in my early tests of cygwin 
MPlayer years ago that making it a non-console app made it fast enough 
to use.  So if you're adding it back, you should know what you're doing 
and you should understand that.

--Joey