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

[Chaddai]

> 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.
> 

You seem to have picked the wrong codecs package since there isn't
any *.so (which is the linux dynamic library suffix) in the
windows one. Look again into the mplayer download page and you'll
see there is a link to other binary codecs packages where you can
find your "essential" for Windows (with *.dll).

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Jedaï