Make GetModuleHandle(NULL) return a valid pointer. Some codecs, and more recently Microsoft's CRT library, expect GetModuleHandle(NULL) to return a pointer to the program's PE header mapped in memory. Thus, just returning 0x0 or 0x1 won't do it anymore, so create a minimal PE header and return that. Patch originally by Gianluigi Tiesi ( mplayer (at) netfarm (dot) it ).