[MPlayer-cygwin] mingw compile/mplayer binary codecs question (aha!)

[Compn]

At 3/9/2004 2:16:00 AM, you wrote:
>Compn writes:
> > At 3/5/2004 2:11:00 AM, you wrote:
> > >Are you using Linux .so files?  You need to use the Windows DLLs.
> > 
> > ah, figured out how to fix the problem! just put mplayer in the same dir
> > as the codecs and it works, strange... :)
>
>They need to be in the path, or in the dir that MPlayer expect them to
>be, usually whatever you passed to the --with-codecsdir option of
>configure.
>
>Diego
>

i was under the impression the codecs were to go in the ~/mplayer/codecs/ dir
because all of the mplayers were built in to look there first. in this case, moving
the codecs to ~/mplayer/ works, so all of the mplayers check their home dir first
and ignore the codecs dir (or go to wherever they were specified --with-codecsdir)

would it be better to just have a config entry for the codecsdir instead of using
a configure switch?

thanks for all the speedy help!