[MPlayer-cygwin] Re: A small Mplayer + Cygwin HOWTO

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Pekka Seppänen <pexu <at> lyseo.edu.ouka.fi> writes:

> http://lyseo.edu.ouka.fi/~pexu/h/mplayer_windows_howto/
 
how about putting that great howto into a wiki?

some updates:

- you need to remove option -mno-cygwin also in other libraries's makefiles 
than only x264's. maybe you could make a generic notion of removing it whenever 
it occurs.

- you need to install some version of libpng and libpng-devel to get 
screenshots to work.

- to get optional 3gpp audio coding you need to install source for amr codecs, 
instructions in [0].

[0] http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-docs/2006-April/007515.html

- you do not need to move or copy compiled libraries. instead, specify [1] for 
mplayer's configure script.

[1] --with-extralibdir=/usr/local/lib

- mencoder compiles beautifully, no need to disable it. very useful e.g. to 
rotate 3gp mobile phone videos.

- to avoid harmless but annoying ldd errors in configure.logs, install [2] 
somewhere along the path, for example /usr/bin/ .

[2] http://www.creatis.insa-lyon.fr/~bellet/creatis/cygwin/ldd

thanks & regards,
-me