[MPlayer-cygwin] Switches to compile mplayer on cygwin NODEAMON

[Thomas Plank]

Sascha Sommer (saschasommer at freenet.de) wrote:

>> *) When I call mplayer, there is a pause of about 4-5 seconds and then the
>> remaining lines starting with "Usage:   mplayer [options]
>> [url|path/]filename" appear.
>> For illustration:
>>
>> D:\>mplayer
>> MPlayer dev-CVS-050117-17:39-3.4.3 (C) 2000-2005 MPlayer Team
>> CPU: Intel Pentium 4/Xeon/Celeron Foster (Family: 8, Stepping: 9)
>> Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
>> CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
>> Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE SSE2
>>
>> [PAUSE of ca. 4-5 seconds, mingw version does not do this!]
>>
>> Usage:   mplayer [options] [url|path/]filename
>>
>> Basic options: (complete list in the man page)
>>  -vo <drv[:dev]>  select video output driver & device ('-vo help' for a
>> list) -ao <drv[:dev]>  select audio output driver & device ('-ao help' for
>> a list) dvd://<titleno>   play DVD title from device instead of plain file
>>
>> <...snipped...>
>>
>> Is the cygwin1.dll call a possible reason?

> Maybe, does it also happen when you start MPlayer from the cygwin console?.

Yes, no difference.

> (cygwin dlls should already be loaded then).

That's right. Perhaps it's the cygwin and gcc version?

$ gcc -v
Reading specs from /usr/local/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/3.4.3/specs
Configured with: ./configure
Thread model: single
gcc version 3.4.3


Cygwin DLL version info:
    DLL version: 1.5.12
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mfg Thomas