[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] README

[D Richard Felker III]

On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 04:34:37AM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
>  > > +______________________________
>  > > +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?

Yes. (Well, the xanim ones can be used instead if preferred.) There
are various other obscure codecs too, check codecs.conf and see which
ones don't have native or lavc replacements. The only important one
that comes to mind is "divx audio" (same as wma/asf audio) used in
some old poor quality divx3 encodings. (Anyone have any ideas where to
start looking for info needed to make a native replacement for this?)

Rich