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#43
Originally Posted by RevdKathy View Post
See that's my problem: I looked at 'tablet encode' and realised that I first had to find/install mplayer or mencoder... and that's when I got lost. A walk-through would be nice.
I'm happy to host one, point to one or even provide a simple InnoSetup bundle for Windows users, if it'd be valuable.

I can describe how I use tablet-encode on Windows (occasionally): I've got Cygwin (with Perl), with mplayer and mencoder downloaded from the link in tablet-encode's README.

It's not click and run, but perhaps someone could try these instructions, come back with some alterations and we can put together something for the less experienced users (if tablet-encode is valuable to them):
  1. Install ActivePerlnce installed, open Command Prompt and type perl -V. If it shows lots of output, Perl is installed correctly. If not, you will have to re-run the installer and ensure the Add Perl to the PATH environment variable option is turned on.
  2. Install 7zip: needed to unpack MPlayer zips.
  3. Download MPlayer for Win32: choose the processor type based on your chipset; probably p4 for Intel, athlon for AMD :-)
  4. Create C:\Program Files\tablet-encode directory
  5. Unzip MPlayer-...-svn-30075.7z: put it in the directory created above
  6. Add C:\Program Files\tablet-encode to PATH.
  7. Install tablet-encode: direct link, unpack and put tablet-encode in C:\Program Files\tablet-encode.
  8. Create C:\Program Files\tablet-encode.bat:

Code:
perl "C:\Program Files\tablet-encode\tablet-encode" %*
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