[MPlayer-cygwin] The stand-alone player hack.

[Sascha Sommer]

Hi,

On Friday 21 October 2005 10:12, GáborSzécsi wrote:
> 10/20/2005 -n, "Reinier Zwitserloot" <reinier at zwitserloot.com> irta:
> >Hence I'm not too bothered that this only works in Windows. In theory
> >it would not be very difficult to port it to mac OSX and linux; for
> >linux there's binreloc, and OSX's application deployment system is a
> >dream. Doing something like this can be done by just adding the video
> >to the stand-alone player's resource data instead of appending it to
> >the executable.
>
> I think using resource is a great idea: it should be implemented in
> windows too. You can obtain a stream for a binary resource and play the
> movie from there. In this case you don't have to hardcode the mplayer
> binary size in there and the movie length (endpos) is also irrelevant:
> the resource stream has its own end. Config file should also be loaded
> from resource.
> Resources can be changed very easily with any resource editor (even from
> cmd prompt), and nothing has to be hardcoded into mplayer itself, so I
> think this should be the clean and preferred way to a standalone
> mplayer. And this can also be implemented on OSX too.
>
> We should discuss this resource handling and try to implement it on a
> platform-independent way.
>
> So what is your opinion about it?
>

I personally do not have much use for such a feature, but it sounds 
interesting nevertheless. I'm sure it could go into cvs when someone is going 
to submit a clean implementation.

Regards

Sascha