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

[Diego Biurrun]

Diego Biurrun wrote:
> Arpi writes:
>  > > 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.
> 
> What about codecs.conf then?  Can we refrain from installing it now?

OK, so if nobody shouts I am going to apply this patch sometime tomorrow.

Diego
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