[MPlayer-cygwin] -vc qdv -vo directx combination causes immediatecrash

[John Brown]

>From: Sascha Sommer <saschasommer at freenet.de>
>Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 15:39:29 +0200
>
>Hi,
>
>On Tuesday 12 September 2006 06:27, John Brown wrote:
> > Hello All,
> >
> > If I use another vo (gl, gl2, sdl) , then qdv works. If I use another 
>vc,
> > then directx works.
> >
> > For what it's worth, -vc mcdv does not seem to work with any vo.
> >
>
>What is wrong with -vc ffdv?
Nothing. It works with any vo that actually plays movies, but qdv is tried 
first,so I have to select it, when I would rather just type "mplayer 
<movie-name>".

>Some of the dll codecs just do not work correctly on windows.
>I'm not sure if this is really vo related.

When I typed "mplayer pond.dv" it crashed before displaying anything. I 
tried various combinations and discovered that -vc qdv works with -vo gl, 
gl2, SDL and winvidix (just tried winvidx a few minutes ago), but not with 
directx. On the other hand, -vc ffdv seems to work all the time, and -vc 
mcdv never works, even though "mplayer -vc help" says:

mcdv        vfw       working   MainConcept DV Codec  [mcdvd_32.dll]

If you try it yourself, I am sure that you will get the same results. I have 
not checked the documentation to see if there is a way to make ffdv the 
default DV codec, but I will.