[MPlayer-dev-eng] countquant outside the US

[D Richard Felker III]

On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 12:23:11AM +0200, Matthias Schwarzott wrote:
> Hi Folks,
> 
> when I have my language-setting to Germany the numbers in my two-pass logs get 
> written in local-number format. Example:
> 
> - divx2pass.log -
> in:1 out:1 type:2 q:2,000000 itex:29102 ptex:14860 mv:2220 misc:4979 fcode:2 
> bcode:1 mc-var:11921 var:40849 icount:87;
> 
> countquant fails on this input. So I changed it to accept "." and "," as 
> decimal seperator.
> 
> (IMO it could be better to change mplayer to write the numbers in a 
> language-independent.)

This will be dealt with at some point. The problem was that someone
went and added "locale support" to mplayer without actually making the
code locale-compatible, so lots of stuff is broken. 1000l to whoever
did that. For now, just unset your locale before running mencoder.

Rich