[MPlayer-dev-eng] cvid codec

[D Richard Felker III]

On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 10:13:46PM +0200, Christian Ohm wrote:
> On Wednesday, 11 June 2003 at 15:05, D Richard Felker III wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 07:38:45PM +0200, Christian Ohm wrote:
> > > why not default to the native codecs when they reach a state of
> > > more-or-less-working (at least for development versions (cvs) and perhaps
> > > -pre/-rc)? imho this would be a good idea because people would then actually
> > > use those codecs and could report bugs. as it is now, the only time the
> > > native codecs are used (if they're not default) is by people actually
> > > testing them or when a dll doesn't work.
> > 
> > Or by people who don't install the win32 crap, which seems to be an
> > increasing number these days... :)
> 
> ok, i haven't thought of that. and if you want to play everything mplayer
> can play you need some dlls, because for some quicktime/real... files there
> is no native codec...

Yes, although that's gradually being fixed. quicktime bins are only
needed for qdm audio now, afaik. Yes, there are still some uses for
the qt/real binary loaders, but it seems that just about every useful
win32 dll codec has a native replacement at this point, so the win32
loader can probably be disabled by most users.

Rich