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

[Compn]

On Tue, 9 Oct 2007 23:37:11 +0200, RVM wrote:

>El Martes, 9 de Octubre de 2007 04:13, Compn escribió:
>> On Fri, 5 Oct 2007 02:15:36 +0200, RVM wrote:
>> >El Jueves, 4 de Octubre de 2007 04:04, Compn escribió:
>> >> 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...
>> >
>> >I think they are mingw builds. Where can I get a cygwin mplayer
>> >build?
>>
>> you can get some older cygwin builds from:
>> http://armory.nicewarrior.org/projects/cygmp/
>> (found on the related projects page on mplayerhq.hu).
>
>With that version the slave commands work in Win98!
>
>But unfortunately now the problem is the opposite, smplayer doesn't
>get the output from mplayer :-(
>

its obvious, you need to compile smplayer with cygwin to get around
win98 pipe problem

-compn