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m0
2Hooper: 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
3Brother 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
4Hey,
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
5I 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
6Yikes! 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
7Could 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
8Could 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
9Will 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
10DX7 headers can now be found at: http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/contrib/win32/dx7headers.tgz
› Posted on November 23, 2010, 9:46 am
JMG
11Hi ,
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

Hooper
1First!
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