[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] Win32 codec paths in vd_realvid.c

[Sascha Sommer]

> Sascha Sommer writes:
>  > > This makes no difference for me on Linux, but lo and behold it fixes
>  > > Real under Cygwin.  I am now finally able to watch Real movies under
>  > > Windows 2000.  Good work!
>  >
>  > How?
>
> Try without patch --> fail
> apply patch   --> success
>
>  > Where are your real dlls?
>
> /usr/lib/codecs/ under Cygwin
> C:\Programme\cygwin\lib\codecs\ under Windows
>
>  > Per my understanding no path is passed to LoadLibrary. This would mean
>  > that the dlls are in some system dir or registered by some realplayer
>  > installation.
>
> The only difference was applying the patch..
>
>  > Can you confirm that it doesn't load the dlls from /usr/local/codecs or
some
>  > other dir passed to configure?
>
> I compiled with --with-codecsdir=/usr/lib/codecs.  Dunno where else it
> should load the DLLs from...
>
>  > If it gets applied loading real dlls from codecs/ on mingw won't be
possible
>  > anymore ;(
>
> This patch made Real work under MinGW for me, too.  It did not work
> before and I used --with-codecsdir=/c/Programme/cygwin/lib/codecs.
>

And when you compile with --with-codecsdir=/x/herearenocodecs
;)

Even if this works the patch should be applied for consistency. Our codecs
dirs should
then be added via the PATH environment variable as Joey proposed.
Joey can you send a patch for this? Please also try the mingw port for you
packages.
If you use zlib from
http://www.neuro.gatech.edu/users/cwilson/cygutils/testing/release/mingw/
a static compile is possible and you get only one .exe what should me much
cleaner imho.
For this you also need the latest available binutils, win32api, etc. and
sys/types.h. See
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/win32-beta/contrib/ for a copy.

Sascha