[MEncoder-users] V210 Codec

[Larry Reznick]

P.J. Trudell wrote:
> Larry, 
> I don't think I have an /etc/mplayer/codecs.conf or a ~/.mplayer/codecs.conf
>
> pj at padiwan:~$ ls -al /etc/mplayer/
> total 28
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 2009-01-10 22:58 .
> drwxr-xr-x 140 root root 12288 2009-02-17 12:21 ..
> -rw-r--r--   1 root root  3760 2007-11-03 09:14 input.conf
> -rw-r--r--   1 root root  3654 2007-11-03 09:14 menu.conf
> -rw-r--r--   1 root root  3270 2008-04-12 19:17 mplayer.conf
> pj at padiwan:~$ ls -al ~/.mplayer/
> total 28
> drwxr-xr-x  3 pj pj 4096 2008-12-11 13:33 .
> drwxr-xr-x 66 pj pj 4096 2009-02-17 10:31 ..
> -rw-r--r--  1 pj pj   44 2008-12-10 19:42 config
> -rw-r--r--  1 pj pj 2531 2009-02-17 08:38 gui.conf
> -rw-r--r--  1 pj pj   25 2009-02-17 08:38 gui.history
> -rw-r--r--  1 pj pj    0 2009-02-17 08:38 gui.pl
> -rw-r--r--  1 pj pj    0 2009-02-17 08:38 gui.url
> -rw-r--r--  1 pj pj   36 2008-12-11 12:09 registry
> drwxr-xr-x  3 pj pj 4096 2008-12-11 13:28 skins
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 pj pj   53 2008-12-11 11:16 subfont.ttf -> /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-bitstream-vera/Vera.ttf
>
> It is the same on all my computers regardless if I installed them with apt-get or compiled from source. Wait a second, on the machine I compiled it on, a find * |grep codecs.conf found a codecs.conf file in the directory I used to compile mplayer, but it doesnt seem to be used when I use mplayer.  Should I copy it to /etc/mplayer or ~/.mplayer/  ? or should I make the changes prior to compiling?
> P.J.
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>   

The original (current by SVN) codecs.conf file is in the etc subdir of 
the mplayer dir you update from SVN and compile in. So, the one your 
find showed is the one I mentioned. That's the one you want to copy into 
your ~/.mplayer subdir and then modify to include the Blackmagic 
configuration.

Copy codecs.conf after you update with SVN, either before or after you 
successfully complete your compile. Your copy of codecs.conf gets read 
each time you start MPlayer so it is independent of compiling. Because 
the only change I make to the latest version from SVN is the Blackmagic 
configuration, I always copy & modify the latest one after SVN if I get 
a successful compile. Most people don't need ~/.mplayer/codecs.conf 
because the built-in settings are typically sufficient.

--Larry