[MPlayer-cygwin] Problem decoding Real Audio on Cygwin

[Diego Biurrun]

David Janes writes:
> I've been trying to decode a Real Audio stream on a Windows XP
> box. I'm running a very up-to-date copy of XP, of Cygwin and I tried
> both building from source code and using the pre-built binary here
> (http://www4.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/win32-beta/)./ I have the
> real audio codecs labeled 'rp9codecs-win32-20040626' and I've tried
> variations of having them in a subdirectory called "codecs",
> "/usr/local/lib/codecs", the current directory and even in
> desperation "c:/windows/system32/". The error I get when I try to
> decode follows after my signature.

I configure with --with-codecsdir=/lib/codecs and put the codecs in
that directory.  Works without problems for me.

> Opening audio decoder: [realaud] RealAudio decoder
> opening win32 dll 'cook.shlb'
> Error loading dll
> ERROR: Could not open required DirectShow codec cook.shlb.

This looks fishy, try latest CVS.

Diego

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