On Sat, 25 Aug 2001 13:32, Paul wrote:
> It was Fri, 24 Aug 2001 12:19:14 -0500 when Tom Brinkman wrote:
> > Earlier in this thread wine was mentioned. I've thought that the
> >pertinent Windoze .dll's were ? either present on the Linux system in
> >a dir, or linked to those on your Windoze partition ? If wine is
> >required I'm not gonna even bother with this.
>
> Wine is not needed for mplayer. You have to get the codec-zip from the
> mplayer site and stuff them in some dir (/usr/lib/win32 it is) and then
> mplayer works. As long as you compile it without gcc-checking.
>
> Paul
IIRC, MPlayer (and Avifile as well, for that matter) borrowed code from the
WINE Project to enable the loading of Windos DLLs. You do not need WINE
installed, since the relevant bits of code are already included.
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