[MPlayer-dev-eng] proposed new codecs.conf [Re: new video codec selection code]

[D Richard Felker III]

On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 02:38:46AM +0100, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 01:22:32AM +0100, Gabucino wrote:
> > D Richard Felker III didn't RTFM :
> > > what issues still remain before a new codecs.conf like this can be
> > > adopted? there's been lots of egger-babble in this thread, but not
> > > very much of the type of discussion i think you were looking for.
> > Just for the record, I'm using it since, and everything works fine for me.
> 
> I get three parse errors when running the new codecs.conf:
> 
> At line 48 in this block at "driver rle":
> 
> videocodec msrle
>   info "M$ RLE8"
>   status working
>   format 0x1
>   driver rle
>   dll "xa_rle8"
>   out BGR32,BGR24,BGR16,BGR15
> 
> No idea why this does not work...
> 
> At line 559 the quotes seem to be at the wrong position:
> 
>   comment "For SSE-systems use hacked dll from ftp://mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/samples/drivers32/" <ftp://mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/samples/drivers32/>
> 
> Putting the closing quotes on the end of the line fixes this.
> 
> Same problem on line 1075:
> 
>   comment "driver at http://codeczone.virtualave.net/FXIMCAUD.zip" <http://codeczone.virtualave.net/FXIMCAUD.zip>
> 
> After commenting out and rearranging quotes the new codecs.conf works
> great.  No more -vfm 5 :-)

Yeah, mplayer is changing so fast these days that a codecs.conf that
works one day will give errors the next. :) I suppose that's a good
thing.

Rich