[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: mplayer - runtime win32 codecs dir selection

The Wanderer inverseparadox at comcast.net
Wed Dec 7 19:00:32 CET 2005


The Wanderer wrote:

> Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> 
>> Hi, On Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 09:57:31PM -0500, The Wanderer wrote:
>> 
>>> What's the status of this patch? On the surface it looks fairly
>>> trivial, but there seems to have been some question of whether or
>>> not it should be applied.
>> 
>> If it works I'm all for it. Though I think it has the problem that
>> MPlayer will always search in the default locations (i.e. path)
>> first, which at least I dislike (esp. for windows users it might
>> mean it will grap a version that does not work, dispite the right
>> ones being installed).
> 
> From what I can tell, the outcome of the discussion was that a
> different solution was needed; Joey Parrish suggested two, but no one
> provided any alternate patches.
> 
> Unless people speak up in favor of this in the next day or two, I'll
> drop it from my tracker.

Patch dropped.

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