WG: [MPlayer-cygwin] Qtx support under Windows?

[Gianluigi Tiesi]

On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 01:01:49AM +0100, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> Gianluigi Tiesi writes:
> > On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 08:43:09PM -0600, Joey Parrish wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 03:29:13AM +0100, Gianluigi Tiesi wrote:
> > > > @win32 developers:
> > > > There is a way to avoid Quicktime.qts in system32? Does a preload with
> > > > LoadLibrary will work?
> > > 
> > > As far as I can tell, the path to Quicktime.qts is hardcoded into the
> > > other Quicktime DLLs.  So you never load it with LoadLibrary at all.
> 
> Would it be possible to patch the DLLs then?
It's not a good idea, is not version independant.
> 
> > mplayer loads qtmlClient.dll and this lib loads QuickTime.qts I suppose,
> > with hardcode path... I would to try to preload anyway, I'm just curious
> 
> Yes, can anybody on Windows verify this?  It would be a big usability
> plus for the Windows port.
I'll test it soon, my hope is a Pre-LoadLibrary make qtmlClient.dll to
pick the yet loaded module, if it doesn't load it with CreateFile,
or anyway I think there should be a way to intercept it.

Bye

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