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Hooper

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First!

Thanks for this how-to. I'm an old guy and I no virtually nothing about computers. Yet, this worked like a charm... and I only just installed Linux (Ubuntu Feisty Fawn) yesterday! Sweet! (do the kids still say that?)

› Posted on August 3, 2007, 8:17 am

m0

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Hooper: I am glad this helped you as well :) Basically most open source windows compilations are similar to this one, or by using CYGWIN. And yes, kids, teenagers, and adults say 'sweet' :)

› Posted on August 7, 2007, 12:00 pm

Sornantha Pitrinorn

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Brother Mohamed,

I am trying to using MPlayer in one of my project, however, I can not open any international filename (eg: filename that are displayed in Arabic, Hindi or Thai in windows explorer). Have you try opening such a file and if so, could you please help me in my little predicument?

Thank you in advance,

Sornantha

› Posted on June 9, 2008, 6:09 pm

m0

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Hey,

In theory, it should play. I don't know what would have caused this but, did you install the language files for Arabic, Hinidi, Thai on your windows? Try installing those language packs and I assume it will work. Cause I have Windows Vista, Ubuntu and I can read utf-8 filenames from arabic to chinese.

› Posted on June 15, 2008, 10:58 pm

Anonoymous Pussy

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I do have some problems building mplayer via Cygwin and I'm just trying to figure out what went wrong.

PS: I don't mean to offend, but if I'm not mistaken you typed "overright" instead of "overwrite" 2 or 3 times.

Good tutorial otherwise.

› Posted on September 23, 2009, 1:18 am

m0

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Yikes! Thanks for the spelling fixes, now since I am using chrome, so I wont be embarrassed making mistakes like that again :d

For compiling stuff like these, I find MinGW easier and faster to install. I always thought cygwin was heavyweight and slow.

› Posted on September 23, 2009, 9:16 am

EW

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Could you also say how to compile mplayer for Windows Mobile? (Please write me a mail. Thanks)

› Posted on April 21, 2010, 5:28 am

EW

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Could you also say how to compile mplayer for Windows Mobile? (Please write me a mail. Thanks)

› Posted on April 21, 2010, 5:29 am

Jon

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Will this method work for building MPlayer with the gui enabled? (a gmplayer.exe file would be generated) I know there are frontends like SMPlayer now, but I feel nostalgic for MPlayer's native gui.

› Posted on July 14, 2010, 11:50 am

frogforge

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DX7 headers can now be found at: http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/contrib/win32/dx7headers.tgz

› Posted on November 23, 2010, 9:46 am

JMG

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Hi ,

Thank you for this How-To .

There are many things I don't understand .

You say : "Untar the archive tar xvfz zlib-1.2.3.tar.gz"

The latest version is at zlib.net/fossils/zlib-1.2.4.tar.gz

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You say : "Configure zlib with mingw: => ./configure --prefix=/mingw"

How to run the configure file ?

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The configure file is not an executable file (!!!) .

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If I make a batch file , including :

C:

cd \zlib-1.2.4

configure --prefix=/mingw

or

start configure --prefix=/mingw

Will it run ?

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You say : "Build zlib: => make && make install"

In the zlib-1.2.4 directory , there is no file named : "make" ?

A "Makefile" file exist .

What have I to do ?

Give me the right instructions .

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Best regards .

JMG

› Posted on January 24, 2011, 10:56 am

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