[MPlayer-cygwin] NOVIRUS: ra -> mp3 conversion using mencoder

[Sascha Sommer]

On Wednesday 03 November 2004 10:34, urjit gokhale wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I checked out the mplayer source from the CVS and installed it. The
> installation was successful.
>
> To run the mplayer, I first start the cygwin X server and then run the
> mplayer. In this case, the output of mplayer (both audio and video) are
> jerky
> and slow.
>
> if I run mplayer without starting the cygwin X server, mplayer starts with
> VO: [null] and AO: [win32] 44100Hz 2ch Signed 16-bit (Little-Endian) (2
> bps) Now the sound is very smooth. I tried -really-quiet and -framedrop
> switches, but that didnt help much.
> I am unable to understand what settings do I have to make so that I can
> have smoothe video playback ?
>

Get the directx headers tarball from 
http://mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/win32-beta/contrib/dx7headers.tgz
and extract its contents to cygwin/usr/include and reconfigure.
Then run make again. After that MPlayer should work without a X server.

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