[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] bug fixes on OS X

[Diego Biurrun]

On Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 09:37:47AM -0500, Alexander Strange wrote:
> 
> On Mar 5, 2005, at 1:22 PM, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> 
> >On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 11:15:54PM -0500, Alexander Strange wrote:
> >>* real10osx.patch adds another search path to configure, allowing it 
> >>to
> >>find the RealPlayer codecs if you have RealPlayer 10 installed.
> >
> >I doubt this is very useful nowadays that we provide codec packages for
> >Real codecs.  It's much better to install just a codec package instead
> >of a huge application.  If some Real codecs are missing from the
> >packages, send them over..
> 
> There isn't an OS X codec pack for it,

It's missing from our OS X codec package?  Then send over the codecs so we
can add them.

> and it disables mplayer's Real 
> deocder completely if it doesn't find one of the versions of Real it's 
> expecting, or an already-made codecs directory.

Yes, that behavior is not really optimal.  I've been thinking about changing
the default to enabled instead of autodetect for some time now.

> I'm thinking of making another patch that would automatically find the 
> current path to the RealPlayer application on OS X now, though.

Yes, adding the path to configure should be enough.

Diego