[MPlayer-dev-eng] installing codecs.conf obsolete?

[Kevin DeKorte]

I am the author the mplayerplugin and I orginally thought that the codecs.conf 
was customized per install of mplayer. I am not sure that is true so I need 
another way to determine what codecs are installed in mplayer. So I believe I 
will be dropping the requirement to read codecs.conf.

Kevin

On Friday 11 July 2003 12:37 pm, Ivan Kalvachev wrote:
> Diego Biurrun said:
> > Hi!
> >
> > There was a discussion about editing codecs.conf vs putting -ac/-vc in
> > your config file for modifying the codec search order.  I was just going
> > to update the docs from a patch that was just sent to me to
> > clarify this, but after thinking about this for a while I have come to
> > the conclusion that we should not install a codecs.conf file by
> > default any longer.  Now that we have a builtin codecs.conf file it is
> > no longer necessary to put one in /etc/ or ~/.mplayer/ etc and you
> > should only modify that file if you want to fiddle with the internals of
> > MPlayer, e.g. if you are a developer.  Since this is apparently causing
> > problems for users, I vote for removing codecs.conf from the
> > installation process.  Anything I have overlooked?  Opinions?
> >
> > Diego
>
> Hi today i took a look of  mozilla mplayerplug-in project and quess what
> i've sow in
> Changelog:
> " Determine what MimeTypes to support by reading mplayers codecs.conf
> file." Can you find some other way to take all supported codecs without
> running mplayer at least 2 times just to query them.
>
> Best Regards
>    Ivan Kalvachev
>   iive
>
>
>
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