[MPlayer-dev-eng] Wishlist

[D Richard Felker III]

On Sat, Sep 07, 2002 at 12:56:15PM +0200, Felix Buenemann wrote:
> On Wednesday 28 August 2002 02:59, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> >  * fix configure to detect cygwin properly
> >    (config.mak needs to be edited by hand currently)
> well, that's only needed for SDL, as it's compiled as a windows-style lib, but 
> mplayer is compiled as a unix-style program, so the flags given by sdl-config 
> screw thing up. However winsdl is pretty buggy so I don't recommend it 
> anyways.

Hmm, would a module for -vo gdi and/or -vo directx be accepted into
mplayer? Audio shouldn't be an issue since cygwin's /dev/dsp emulation
seems to work. I agree that windows SDL is quite broken...in fact,
although it works ok for programs that are designed to be
posix-independent and only target SDL, I tend to think that SDL is
rather broken in general -- for instance, wanting SDL.h to be included
in main.c, arbitrarily redirecting stdio on some platforms, etc.
Certainly not very good for a program like mplayer, anyway...

Rich