[MPlayer-DOCS] Fwd: [MPlayer-users] Proposed MPlayer MinGW howto Update (Needs review)

[Vladimir Voroshilov]

Here are small comments.
I didn't read the text carefully line-by-line, though.

2007/11/29, Guillaume POIRIER <poirierg at gmail.com>:
> Hello,
>
> I'm forwarding this mail from mplayer-users to here, as it's more
> appropriate there.
> To the best of my knowledge, only root can update
> MPlayer-MinGW-Howto.txt, so I hope you can take care of this Diego...
>
> Guillaume
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: JonY <10walls at gmail.com>
> Date: Oct 16, 2007 2:57 PM
> Subject: [MPlayer-users] Proposed MPlayer MinGW howto Update (Needs review)
> To: "MPlayer usage questions, feature requests, bug reports"
> <mplayer-users at mplayerhq.hu>
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Nicolas Hesler wanted MPlayer-MinGW-Howto.txt updated. Probably should
> have asked in MPlayer-users instead of mencoder-users.
>
> Changes:
> Major rewrite, removed unneeded dx7headers, updated libs and
> links, based on Stefan Gürtler's howto.

dx7headers are still necessary for "-vo directx".
Did i miss something?

>  [...]
>
> SVN can be obtained from
> http://subversion.tigris.org/project_packages.html
> The precompiled binaries are sorted by platform. Download the Windows
> version and unpack them to place them in your %PATH% (eg C:\WINDOWS).

Personally, i don't prefer unpacking anything
into C:\WINDOWS (or any other system folder)

> [...]
> ------------------------------
> 3.7 Installing pthreads
> ------------------------------
> Requirements:            None
> Used by:                 x264
> Download:                ftp://sourceware.org/pub/pthreads-win32/
> Rarball:                 pthreads-w32-2-8-0-release.tar.gz
> Size:                    331,327 bytes
> Release Date:            22-Dec-2006
> Installed library:
> License:                 LGPL
>
> [..]

teletext for win32 (commited after rc2 release, though) requires libthreads too.

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