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

[Arpi]

Hi,

> 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 

no
codecs.conf always contains every possible codec, but the available
ones are decided and compiled-in to mplayer binary at compile time.
you shoudl run mplayer -vfm help and -afm help to get the list of
codec drivers (plugins) available, and use only codecs.conf entries
with 'driver' being one of the listed drivers.

> another way to determine what codecs are installed in mplayer. So I believe I 
> will be dropping the requirement to read codecs.conf.

good idea
btw why do you need to know in the plugin that what codecs are available?
it's auto-selected by mpalyer, you do not have to always specify by -ac/-vc


A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team

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