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DOS GUI for MPlayer (Miscellaneous)

posted by Doug , 26.09.2011, 00:26

> Have somebody tried to run the portable version of SMPlayer in pure DOS
> with HX?

I don't use SMPlayer -- i've never been able to get it to work
reliably under my extended Win98SE (DX9, KernelEx, 98SE2ME, etc).

The lightest MPlayer Windows GUI i'm aware of is William Wang's
open-source MPlayer WW (a/k/a MPlayer Lite):

http://www.mplayer-ww.com/eng/

It has the unique property of having the actual MPlayer code
integrated into the GUI executable -- the other MPlayer shells
that i'm aware of just run the separate MPlayer EXE file.

Anyway, based on your query, i tried MPlayer WW in real DOS with
HX and got the following errors:

dpmild32: import not found: ImageList_Destroy
dpmild32: import not found: ImageList_LoadImageA
dpmild32: file COMCTL32.DLL
dpmild32: d:\hx\COMCTL32.DLL: cannot resolve imports

I don't know enough about the innards of HX to know if that's
fixable. I do know (?) that HXGUI has a tough time with apps
that use multiple windows. MPlayer WW doesn't have a visible
menu, just a right-click context menu, so i thought i'd give it a
try for the heck of it.

Anyway, JFYI....

- Doug B.

Complete thread:

• DOS GUI for MPlayer - Vehudis, 18.09.2011, 20:01 (Miscellaneous)
  • DOS GUI for MPlayer - Laaca, 18.09.2011, 22:31
    • DOS GUI for MPlayer - ron, 19.09.2011, 00:50
      • DOS GUI for MPlayer - Vehudis, 19.09.2011, 07:49
        • DOS GUI for MPlayer - DOS386, 20.09.2011, 09:23
        • DOS GUI for MPlayer - Doug, 26.09.2011, 00:26
          • DOS GUI for MPlayer - Vehudis, 26.09.2011, 15:17
            • DOS GUI for MPlayer - Doug, 26.09.2011, 19:46
              • DOS GUI for MPlayer - Doug, 27.09.2011, 04:49
                • MPlayer - Vehudis, 27.09.2011, 10:45
                  • MPlayer - Doug, 27.09.2011, 16:50
                    • MPlayer | Khusraw's binary - DOS386, 04.11.2011, 09:43