[MPlayer-dev-eng] Having MPlayer and Mencoder in a single binary.

Jindrich Makovicka makovick at kmlinux.fjfi.cvut.cz
Tue Jul 5 23:51:38 CEST 2005


Rich Felker wrote:
> Just copy the .exe file to both names. An option is an ugly hack and
> not at all user-friendly. Alternatively you can make a wrapper that
> invokes mplayer.exe with argv[0]=="mencoder"

I think an option is a quite standard approach, gzip, bzip and vim are
probably the most common examples using it. I agree it is rather an
emergency solution, but it is ok to include such option.

-- 
Jindrich Makovicka




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