[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] enable dll codec support for mingw32and cygwin

[Diego Biurrun]

Sascha Sommer writes:
 > > Sascha Sommer wrote:
 > > > realcodec.patch: fixes some problems with real dlls on Windows
 > >
 > > Does this actually work for you?  How?
 > 
 > Make a subdir called codecs/ into the dir where your mplayer.exe is
 > and copy the real dlls into it. It will also search other acm dshow and vfw
 > codecs there.
 > I know this is not the best solution but real dlls are normally in
 > Gemeinsame Dateien\Real\Codecs\ or Common Files\Real\codecs ?
 > No way to find out their location runtime without too much bloat.

Hmm, I don't think we should rely on working installations of QT/Real
etc but use our own codecs as usual.  This is especially true for
Cygwin.  There we have a Unix environment and I expect to configure my
applications just like on any other Unix system.  I believe it would
be best if we could make /usr/lib/win32/ work as usual under Cygwin.
For MinGW the situation is slightly different as we create a real
Windows application.  <path_to_mplayer>\codecs does not sound bad in
this case.

Diego