[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] preset dir for win32

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 10:35:26PM +0200, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 06:00:11PM +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 08:26:39AM +0200, Gianluigi Tiesi wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > this patch make win32 ffmpeg search in a subdir of the executable called
> > > presets, datadir does not fit enough well on win32
> > 
> > please explain/elaborate on what this fixes.
> > To me it would look like FFMPEG_DATADIR could be set to whatever
> > directory is wanted, obviously iam missing some problem
> 
> I think the idea is to look for presets relative to the location of
> the FFmpeg binary.
> So the presets will be available even after moving all installation
> files around (as e.g. when providing a binary with installer and
> user-selectable installation destination) and also when not
> starting the binary from the directory where it is installed.

ok, makes sense but i think this should be done in addition and
not as alternative.
I dont want to break existing presets

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