[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] README

[Diego Biurrun]

D Richard Felker III writes:
 > On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 02:35:45AM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
 > 
 > > +Now, remove the libavcodec subdirectory in the MPlayer source tree.
 > 
 > Is there a reason this directory still exists. IMHO it'd be nice to
 > remove it so:
 > 
 > 1) New users realize immediately that lavc is NOT included.
 > 
 > 2) Newbies who don't understand how to mv/cp don't put their good copy
 > of lavc in the wrong place, e.g. ./libavcodec/libavcodec.

Agreed.

 > > +______________________________
 > > +STEP4: Installing Win32 Codecs
 > > +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 > > +
 > > +This is only necessary if you want to play ASF and WMA movies.  The builtin
 > > +codecs are much faster when playing divx and mpeg files.
 > 
 > Also Indeo and various other old crappy codecs.

What exactly do you mean?  Win32 codecs are necessary to play Indeo
and other (which?) formats?

Diego