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Cygwin and MinGW now behave similarly with regard to VCD/DVD playback.

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  have to put them in your Windows system directory
  (<filename class="directory"><replaceable>C:\Windows\system\</replaceable></filename>
  or similar). As a last resort, try putting them in the same directory as
  <application>MPlayer</application>.</para>

<para>The <application>Cygwin</application>/<application>MinGW</application>
  console is rather slow. Redirecting output or using the
  <option>-quiet</option> option has been reported to improve performance on
  some systems. Direct rendering (<option>-dr</option>) may also help.
  You can prevent OSD flicker through double buffering with the

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

<para>You can play VCDs by playing the <filename>.DAT</filename> or <filename>.MPG</filename> files
  that Windows exposes on VCDs.  It works like this (adjust for the drive letter
  of your CD-ROM):</para>

<screen>mplayer <replaceable>d:/mpegav/avseq01.dat</replaceable></screen>

<screen>mplayer <replaceable>/cygdrive/d/MPEG2/AVSEQ01.MPG</replaceable></screen>

<para>DVDs also work, adjust <option>-dvd-device</option> for the drive letter
  of your DVD-ROM:</para>

<screen>mplayer dvd://<replaceable>&lt;title&gt;</replaceable> -dvd-device <replaceable>d</replaceable>:</screen>

<screen>mplayer dvd://<replaceable>&lt;title&gt;</replaceable> -dvd-device '\\.\<replaceable>d</replaceable>:'</screen>

</sect2>


<sect2 id="mingw">
<title><application>MinGW</application></title>

<para>If you use a version of <application>MinGW</application> before 3.1.0,
  you need to replace <filename>/mingw/include/sys/types.h</filename> with this
  <ulink url="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/win32-beta/contrib/types.h"><filename>types.h</filename></ulink>.</para>

<para>Extract DirectX header files to <filename class="directory">/mingw/include/</filename>.</para>

<para>VCDs and DVDs work almost like <application>Cygwin</application> (adjust
  for the drive letter of your CD-ROM/DVD-ROM):</para>

<screen>mplayer <replaceable>d:/mpegav/avseq01.dat</replaceable></screen>

<screen>mplayer <replaceable>/d/MPEG2/AVSEQ01.MPG</replaceable></screen>

<screen>mplayer dvd://<replaceable>&lt;title&gt;</replaceable> -dvd-device /<replaceable>d</replaceable>/</screen>

<screen>mplayer dvd://<replaceable>&lt;title&gt;</replaceable> -dvd-device <replaceable>d</replaceable>:\\</screen>

</sect2>


</sect1>

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  have to put them in your Windows system directory
  (<filename class="directory"><replaceable>C:\Windows\system\</replaceable></filename>
  or similar). As a last resort, try putting them in the same directory as
  <application>MPlayer</application>.</para>

<para>You can play VCDs by playing the <filename>.DAT</filename> or <filename>.MPG</filename> files
  that Windows exposes on VCDs.  It works like this (adjust for the drive letter
  of your CD-ROM):</para>

<screen>mplayer <replaceable>d:/mpegav/avseq01.dat</replaceable></screen>

<para>DVDs also work, adjust <option>-dvd-device</option> for the drive letter
  of your DVD-ROM:</para>

<screen>mplayer dvd://<replaceable>&lt;title&gt;</replaceable> -dvd-device <replaceable>d</replaceable>:</screen>

<para>The <application>Cygwin</application>/<application>MinGW</application>
  console is rather slow. Redirecting output or using the
  <option>-quiet</option> option has been reported to improve performance on
  some systems. Direct rendering (<option>-dr</option>) may also help.
  You can prevent OSD flicker through double buffering with the

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

</sect2>


<sect2 id="mingw">
<title><application>MinGW</application></title>

<para>If you use a version of <application>MinGW</application> before 3.1.0,
  you need to replace <filename>/mingw/include/sys/types.h</filename> with this
  <ulink url="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/win32-beta/contrib/types.h"><filename>types.h</filename></ulink>.</para>

<para>Extract DirectX header files to <filename class="directory">/mingw/include/</filename>.</para>

</sect2>


</sect1>