[MPlayer-users] No longer supporting Windows 2000?

[Josh]

On 7/22/2012 13:54, Josh wrote:
> I decided to test my MPlayer in Windows 2000 (in a virtual machine) 
> and it no longer runs because of a particular code change in FFmpeg 
> (FFmpeg by itself does not run either with the same error). The error 
> is: "The procedure entry point _vscprintf could not be located in the 
> dynamic link library msvcrt.dll." 
> http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git;a=commit;h=69bf775e9f858f1cec79c27ae7b98a64a7715cd8
>
> According to MS on their MSDN pages, _vscprintf is supported all the 
> way back to Windows 95 but really it is only supported in XP and 
> later. I reverted the change in my local copy and could run it in 
> Windows 2000 again. That partciular code doesn't seem to be used 
> anywhere, at least there are no other references to "vsnprintf_fixed" 
> in the source code.
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Upon further reflection, given how few Win 2000 holdouts there are I 
think I would just suggest people use an older version.