[MPlayer-cygwin] Help: MPlayer-mingw32-1.0pre7 cannot use windows codec library

[Sascha Sommer]

On Wednesday 20 July 2005 14:46, Marvin Zhang wrote:
> I downloaded MPlayer-mingw32-1.0pre7.zip from
> http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/win32/MPlayer-mingw32-1.0pre7.zip
>  and unzipped it.
> Then downloaded the windows codec library from
> http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/essential-20050412.tar.bz2
> and unzipped and copied to the codecs directory. But
> when I play a rmvb movie, it always pop up a message
> box:
> The application or DLL
> D:\MyProg\MPlayer-mingw32-1.0pre7\mplayer\codecs\drvc.so
> is not a valid Windows image. Please check this
> against your installation diskette.
>
> How to solve this issue? My system is windows XP and
> file system is NTFS.
>

Yes, you have to use the windows real codecs.

Sascha