[Mplayer-advusers] Fw: [MPlayer-users] [Bug] Mlayer/MP3Lib ?

[Andrew Church]

>       -ac <[-]codec1,[-]codec2,...[,]>
>              Specify a priority list of audio codecs to be used,
>                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

     This still doesn't say anything about using this vs. changing
codecs.conf, which is the point I was trying to make.  (I'm aware of the
"echo foo=bar >>~/.mplayer/config" way of doing things.)  Since it seems
the current behavior is "if ~/.mplayer/codecs.conf exists, ignore
.../etc/mplayer/codecs.conf completely", and the documentation doesn't say
anything about this other than two oblique references to removing outdated
codecs.conf files from ~/.mplayer (documentation.html:818-819 and
faq.html:472-473), I would suggest (1) documenting this behavior--I'd be
happy to submit documentation updates--and possibly (2) changing the
behavior to allow using ~/.mplayer/codecs.conf to add new or modify
existing codecs rather than completely replace the system list (this is
probably not really that necessary since MPlayer seems to support just
about every codec out there already).

  --Andrew Church
    achurch at achurch.org
    http://achurch.org/