[MPlayer-cygwin] [BUGREPORT] Real Media crash in excuciatingdetail

[John Brown]

>From: Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de>
>Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2006 16:19:26 +0200
>
>On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 07:06:52PM -0400, John Brown wrote:
> >
> > One particular Real Media cartoon crashes MEncoder (and MPlayer) about 2
> > seconds into the file.
>
>It does not crash MPlayer on Linux/PPC.
>
>Diego
>

As expected. I understand that on Windows, MPlayer uses RealPlayer DLLs, 
while the Linux version has open-source RealPlayer codecs. Is there a 
particular reason why those codecs cannot be ported to Windows?