[MPlayer-dev-eng] Binary codecs

[D Richard Felker III]

On Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 01:48:04AM +0000, Roberto Togni wrote:
> The second question is about demo/trial codecs: support them or not?
> As an example, now we have an expired m3jpeg.dll in our codec package;  
> Cesar submitted an updated codec that solve the problem, at least until  
> the codec expires again.
> What to do? Try to keep the dll up to date (if possible), drop the  
> codec, patch the dll/the loader to "fix" the expiration problem?

Huh? How do they expire? IMO that requires calling the windoze
function to get the date/time, and we can just implement that function
to return some fixed old time..

Rich