[MPlayer-cygwin] mplayer

[Sascha Sommer]

> I downloaded MPlayer-mingw32-1.0pre4.zip from the mplayer website and 
> unzipped it. There is an executable mplayer.exe but it doesnt execute. 
> What configuration do I need to do? I searched through the README files 
> and documentation but couldnt find anything. Do I have to compile the 
> source code? Should I download "MPlayer v1.0pre4 source"?
> 

MPlayer is a compandline player. You have to start it from console with
mplayer file.avi.
Or just drop a file onto the exe.

Sascha