[MPlayer-cygwin] [TEST] working CD playback in windows - Track Number not reported probably NODEAMON

[Sascha Sommer]

Hi,

On Friday 28 October 2005 21:13, Erik Lunchpail wrote:
> > I'll post a new patch and binary soon.
>
> As promised, here's a new patch and binary. CDDB cache
> reading and writing should be working fine. It will
> check 3 environment variables (HOME, USERPROFILE, and
> HOMEPATH) before finally ending at get_path(""), so it
> should have no problems finding a place to store the
> cache.
>
> I racked my brains trying to come up with a decent
> check as a replacement to stat() in
> cddb_write_cache(), as stat() for some reason is
> always returning -1. Basically I just opted to ignore
> it, since we return -1 anyways at creat() if it can't
> find the directory.
>
> The "Unable to find '.'" error message may show up on
> the commandline as well. Sometimes it can find it,
> sometimes not, dunno why. Nonetheless, that can be
> ignored as well since it doesn't return.
>
> new binary here:
> http://vayne.fdns.net/mplayer/mplayer.exe
>

I tested the exe. It works fine on windows xp but crashes on windows 98.
libcdio failed to compile on my box, I therefore did not yet find out what is 
causing the crash.
I think the patch should also be modified to use libcdda on other platforms 
when libcdio is not available.

Thanks

Sascha