[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] A basic Win32 compilation help file

[Alexander Strasser]

Hi Carl!

Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
> Alexander Strasser <eclipse7 <at> gmx.net> writes:
> 
> > > +Then run make.
> > 
> > Also I think if you commit such a short compilation manual, you 
> > should note that it is quite possible that a build succeeds but 
> > the resulting mplayer/mencoder binaries might be very limited 
> > and missing lots of useful features.
> 
> (Assuming mingw contains the necessary headers for useful vos.)
> Which features would that be?

  Good question indeed!

  Depending on what you want to do, the lists vary. But
even when just assuming the mainstream case of using
mplayer binary for moderate movie playback purposes, some
things pile up.

  As you say a suitable vo might be missing to begin with.

  I do some incomplete listing of probably missing stuff in
case it is useful for anyone:

  vo/ao (DirectX, OpenGL, SDL)
  various ffmpeg decoders (including ffpng) (zlib)
  cdda (libcdio)
  other than bitmap OSD font support and SSA subtitles (freetype)
  some network streaming stuff might not be available

  iconv related features


  As mentioned earlier if you want to do e.g. encoding, almost
certainly more dependencies come into the mix.

  Alexander

Disclaimer: I currently can't compile on MSYS/MinGW.