[MPlayer-cygwin] vidix support on Windows XP

[Sascha Sommer]

> Sascha Sommer writes:
>  > current mplayer cvs now supports vidix on windows xp/2000/nt.
>  > To make it work you need to configure mplayer with --enable-vidix
>  > Then download
>  > http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/win32-beta/dhahelper.sys
>  > and copy it to the libdha/dhahelperwin dir.
>  > Open msys console and change to that dir. Then type gcc -o dhasetup.exe
>  > dhasetup.c and execute "dhasetup.exe install" as Administrator.
>
> If I run dhasetup.exe as a power user I get the message
>

What would you propose?
Or even better feel free to commit a better message yourself ;)

>   can't find dhahelper.sys
>
> which is hardly accurate, it is in the current directory.  I just
> cannot write to the target directory.  A somewhat more clueful error
> message would be a good thing.
>
>  > After that you will have to reboot.
>  > When your done, copy the .so files from vidix/drivers to the
mplayer/vidix
>  > dir relative
>  > to your mplayer.exe. After that you should be able to play movies
with -vo
>  > winvidix
>
> Works here with a Matrox G550, good work! :-)
>
> Some problems remain, though.  When I press "f" to switch to
> fullscreen mode I get a black screen.  I "Alt-Tab" back to the MinGW
> console and then back to the fullscreen MPlayer and the video shows.
> I press "f" again and the windowed MPlayer shows only the colorkey.
> After pressing "Alt-Tab" twice to switch to the console and back to
> the MPlayer window the video shows in the windowed MPlayer...
>

Does it work if you change vo_winvidix.c that it calls vidix_start after
setting the colorkey. Eg move line 98 to line 111?


Sascha