[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] codecs.conf: can't play vorbis

[D Richard Felker III]

On Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 07:26:54PM +0100, Guillaume Poirier wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> On Sun, 6 Mar 2005 08:41:57 -0800, R C <rcooley at spamcop.net> wrote:
> > On Sun, 6 Mar 2005 15:32:20 +0100
> > Guillaume Poirier <poirierg at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > BTW Rich, what kind of informations should I have a look at (or
> > > provide in case of a bug report) ? I'm kind of lacking ideas in my
> > > bug-tracking chase...
> > 
> > http://mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports.html
> 
> Thanks, but I already read that fine document. The problem I have is
> that just a one-liner patch to codecs.conf restores the normal
> behaviour. The problem is also that old version compiled long ago play
> the file just fine.

Yes, but making patches to fix non-bugs by including redundant info in
codecs.conf is not a clean solution. We won't apply a bugfix patch
unless there's a bug to fix..

> In other words, this problem makes no sense to me, but you can be sure
> I'm gonna try other things that may influence the behaviour of
> MPlayer, like upgrading my toolchain, things like that.
> 
> Please understand that I'm not wining about that problem, as I do know
> a work-around. I'm just curious about where that problem may come
> from, like Sherlock Holmes, if I may say so...

It sounds to me like you just didn't recompile all changed files..

Rich