On Sunday 12 October 2008 17:03:22 Reimar D?ffinger wrote: > > How about the Windows version? > > There is _not a single_ Windows developer left in the MPlayer team. I > sometimes boot into Windows out of pity with those who are stuck with > it, but that is not enough to fix the problems that have accumulated. > http://www.videolan.org/ obviously have the same problem. > > Which in conclusion means: > > It is not clear what versions of mingw, msys, > > gcc, mplayer source, patch files and required libraries (many binary) are > > needed to build a release quality mplayer binary. > > Neither do we. AFAIK the last rc2 was from one of the people who do the > "unofficial" build, just without the custom patches. > My own Windows builds currently consistently crash with vorbis on Windows, > though there is a patch on -dev-eng I wanted to test since I think it might > help. Thanks for the clear answer. I had pretty much come to the same conclusion. Me personally, I couldn't care less about Windows, but the company I work at still has a lot of Windows using customers. I'm responsible for some video stuff, and thought that mplayer could provide a good crossplatform binary for embedding within Java. We don't have any Windows C programmers otherwise we would have volunteered the effort for getting the mplayer windows build up-to- date. Our current solution will be to use the Windows Media Player active-x control from Java+Windows, and mplayer from Java+Linux. I'm also glad I can now stop working with this damn Windows computer, and go back to my Kubuntu box :-) Bart
