[MPlayer-cygwin] Does -slave work on Windows 98?

[Compn]

On Thu, 4 Oct 2007 03:43:21 +0200, RVM scribed:

>I'm developing a mplayer front-end using the Qt libraries (smplayer).
>So theorically it should work too on Windows 98.
>
>But I've been reported that smplayer doesn't work properly under
>Windows 98 and Windows ME.
>
>I installed Win 98 in a virtual machine, and indeed the problem seems
>that mplayer ignores (or doesn't get) the slave commands. I tested
>with another GUI (MPUI) and it has exactly the same problem.
>
>Tested several mplayer builds, including 1.0rc1, with the same result.
>
>Is this a bug in mplayer, or simply it's a limitation of those
>versions of Windows?


hmm, not sure, it could be a problem with those versions of windows.

did you try cygwin or mingw mplayer builds? i wonder if it works with
cygwin...

just wanted to say thanks for your hard work, smplayer is a wonderful
frontend!

-compn