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Win32 DLLs and OpenGL do not work on Cygwin. Automatically disable them and update the documentation accordingly, plus some spellchecking cosmetics.

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<P>You need an MPlayer font package to be able to use OSD/SUB feature.
  There are many ways to get it:</P>

<UL>
  <LI>download ready-to-use font packages from MPlayer site.
    Note: currently available fonts are limited for iso 8859-1/2 support,
    but there are some other (including Korean, Russian, 8859-8 etc) fonts
    at contrib/font section of FTP, made by users.<BR>
    <BR>
    Font should have appropriate font.desc file which maps unicode font
    positions to the actual code page of the subtitles text. Other solution is

  QNX has only X <I>emulation</I> which is VERY slow. Use SDL.</P>


<H2><A NAME="cygwin">6.7 Cygwin</A></H2>

<P>The Cygwin port is still in its infancy and could use some love,
  <A HREF="tech/patches.txt">patches</A> are always welcome. You should also
  check out the
  <A HREF="http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-cygwin/">mplayer-cygwin</A>
  mailing list for help and latest information.</P>

<P>To get native DirectX video (<CODE>-vo directx</CODE>), extract the
  <A HREF="http://www.videolan.org/vlc/dx7headers.tgz">DirectX 7 header files</A>
  into <CODE>/usr/include/<CODE> or <CODE>/usr/local/include/<CODE> and
  recompile. This, together with <CODE>-ao win32</CODE> should give you best
  results. If the image is distorted, try turning off hardware acceleration with
  <CODE>-vo directx:noaccel</CODE>.</P>

<P>You will have to go to the MPlayer directory, and copy or symlink
  <CODE>etc/cygwin_inttypes.h</CODE> to <CODE>/usr/include/inttypes.h</CODE> to
  make MPlayer compile. Otherwise it will complain about missing
  <CODE>inttypes.h</CODE>.</P>

<P>Since there is no support for Win32 DLLs under Cygwin and OpenGL and mpdvdkit
  do not work/compile, you should disable them in configure with
  <CODE>./configure --disable-win32 --disable-gl --disable-mpdvdkit</CODE>.</P>

<P>Instructions and files for making SDL run under Cygwin can be found on the
  <A HREF="http://www.libsdl.org/extras/win32/cygwin/">libsdl site</A>.</P>

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<P>You need an MPlayer font package to be able to use OSD/SUB feature.
  There are many ways to get it:</P>

<UL>
  <LI>download ready-to-use font packages from MPlayer site.
    Note: Currently available fonts are limited for iso 8859-1/2 support,
    but there are some other (including Korean, Russian, 8859-8 etc) fonts
    at contrib/font section of FTP, made by users.<BR>
    <BR>
    Font should have appropriate font.desc file which maps unicode font
    positions to the actual code page of the subtitles text. Other solution is

  QNX has only X <I>emulation</I> which is VERY slow. Use SDL.</P>


<H2><A NAME="cygwin">6.7 Cygwin</A></H2>

<P>The Cygwin port is still in its infancy. Currently there is no support for
  Win32 DLLs, VCDs or OpenGL. SDL is known to distort sound and image or crash
  on some systems. <A HREF="tech/patches.txt">Patches</A> are always welcome.
  Best results are achieved with the native DirectX video output driver
  (<CODE>-vo directx</CODE>) and the native Windows waveout audio driver
  (<CODE>-ao win32</CODE>). You should also check out the
  <A HREF="http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-cygwin/">mplayer-cygwin</A>
  mailing list for help and latest information.</P>

<P>You have to copy or symlink <CODE>etc/cygwin_inttypes.h</CODE> from the
  MPlayer source directory to <CODE>/usr/include/inttypes.h</CODE> in order to
  make MPlayer compile.</P>

<P>To get native DirectX video, download
  <A HREF="http://www.videolan.org/vlc/dx7headers.tgz">DirectX 7 header files</A>,
  extract them to <CODE>/usr/include/</CODE> or <CODE>/usr/local/include/</CODE>
  and recompile. If the image is distorted, try turning off hardware
  acceleration with <CODE>-vo directx:noaccel</CODE>.</P>

<P>Instructions and files for making SDL run under Cygwin can be found on the
  <A HREF="http://www.libsdl.org/extras/win32/cygwin/">libsdl site</A>.</P>