MINGW32 + performencs ( was Re: [MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] directx, typo, fs )

[Sascha Sommer]

> About MINGW32 - I have been able, after about half of day of work, to run
> Mplayer under MINGW32, but the input handeling, the caching layer,
> streming and the bmovl vf are broken (as well as all of the stuff that is
> not available under cygwin). I hope to fix this in this weekend, and send
> patch which will allow compiling it under MINGW32.

I have a patch which fixes input and disables bmovl and cache2.
I will hopefully be able to send and commit it today.
Would be cool if we could find a way to use cache2 on win.

> About the performences issue: I have noticed that muting Mplayer's output
> (or redirecting it to a file instead of a cygwin console) has significally
> improved mplayer's performences on my system (I use win 98 for testing
> cygwin/MINGW32 builds) when the console window was in the background.

Same for me on win98.

S. Sommer