[MPlayer-cygwin] codec installation problem ?

[Diego Biurrun]

On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 04:05:40AM +0200, Gianluigi Tiesi wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 10:00:09AM -0400, Compn wrote:
> > On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 13:47:37 +0100, Robert Parker scribed:
> > 
> > >In the readme of the "windows-essential-20061022.zip" it says all I
> > >have to do is place the files in the "C:\Program
> > >Files\mplayer\codecs\" folder (I am using the prebuilt windows
> > >mplayer).
> > >I've also tried putting the essential files in "C:\Program
> > >Files\mplayer\codecs\windows-essential-20061022\" folder but get the
> > >same result.
> > 
> > put the codecs in c:\program files\mplayer\
> > it should work.
> > 
> > it would be nice if mplayer could search a bit more directories for the
> > codecs...
> 
> This patch adds "codecs" directory in mplayer directory to the
> search path, the result is more clean since all codecs
> will not be in the same dir of mplayer

I'm rather surprised that this is a problem, the default codecs
directory for MinGW is "codecs", see configure.

Why isn't this working?

Diego