[MPlayer-cygwin] [BUGREPORT] Real Media crash in excuciatingdetail

[Diego Biurrun]

On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 02:52:49AM -0400, John Brown wrote:
> 
> >From: Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de>
> >Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2006 16:19:26 +0200
> >
> >On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 07:06:52PM -0400, John Brown wrote:
> >>
> >> One particular Real Media cartoon crashes MEncoder (and MPlayer) about 2
> >> seconds into the file.
> >
> >It does not crash MPlayer on Linux/PPC.
> 
> As expected. I understand that on Windows, MPlayer uses RealPlayer DLLs, 
> while the Linux version has open-source RealPlayer codecs. Is there a 
> particular reason why those codecs cannot be ported to Windows?

No.  There are four different kinds of RealVideo, RV10-RV40, there is a
free decoder for RV10 and RV20 only.  MPlayer uses binary codecs on
Windows and Linux for the others.

Diego