[MPlayer-dev-eng] Automatic Codec Downloader

[Jonathan Atkins]

Mike Melanson wrote:

> Hi team,
> 	Has anyone ever considered modifying the MPlayer distribution so
> that it can download codecs automatically from Microsoft? I figured out
> how to do it and tried to code it up this evening, but hit a roadblock
> when I tried to write a Perl script to do the downloading part.
> 
> 	I was thinking that the configure script could ask the user if
> they wanted to download codecs from Microsoft's site and then launch this
> script, which would gather up the FOURCCs and format numbers from
> etc/codecs.conf and download the required codec files Microsoft. The
> codecs are packaged as .CAB (cabinet) files, and there's a GPL'd tool for
> extracting the data that could be distributed with MPlayer. MPlayer would
> keep them in the installation tree and install them in the right place
> during the 'make install' phase. We could later adapt the script to
> download XAnim modules and others as well.
> 
> 	Anyway, if there's any interest, and/or if anyone knows how to
> program the Perl WWW lib (LWP), let me know.
> 
> 	Thanks...
> 

why require perl when you can use libcurl from curl...

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