[MPlayer-cygwin] codec installation problem ?

[Robert Parker]

On 25/04/07, Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 04:05:40AM +0200, Gianluigi Tiesi wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 10:00:09AM -0400, Compn wrote:
> > > On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 13:47:37 +0100, Robert Parker scribed:
> > >
> > > >In the readme of the "windows-essential-20061022.zip" it says all I
> > > >have to do is place the files in the "C:\Program
> > > >Files\mplayer\codecs\" folder (I am using the prebuilt windows
> > > >mplayer).
> > > >I've also tried putting the essential files in "C:\Program
> > > >Files\mplayer\codecs\windows-essential-20061022\" folder but get the
> > > >same result.
> > >
> > > put the codecs in c:\program files\mplayer\
> > > it should work.
> > >
> > > it would be nice if mplayer could search a bit more directories for the
> > > codecs...
> >
> > This patch adds "codecs" directory in mplayer directory to the
> > search path, the result is more clean since all codecs
> > will not be in the same dir of mplayer
>
> I'm rather surprised that this is a problem, the default codecs
> directory for MinGW is "codecs", see configure.
>
> Why isn't this working?
>
> Diego
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I've just downloaded the MPlayer from
oss.netfarm.it/mplayer-win32.php, this finds the finds dlls when
placed in the codecs/ folder.  I think the problem must be in the
Windows mplayer from www.mplayerhq.hu