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

[D Richard Felker III]

On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 09:16:00AM +0100, Guillaume Poirier wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 21:43:04 +0000 (UTC), adland <adland123 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Guillaume POIRIER <guillaume.poirier <at> etudiant.univ-rennes1.fr> writes:
> > 
> > I could repro your problem on my Debian 32bit system with OGG files.
> > And ogg seemed to have worked fine on older mplayer builds.
> > Fix was to manualy copy new file codecs.conf from build dir
> > 
> > cp etc/codecs.conf ~user/.mplayer/codecs.conf
> > 
> > where user is the one trying to play OGG files
> 
> Strangely enough, I hadn't tested that since it seemed to me that
> either the codecs.conf file was getting build-in in MPlayer or not...
> The problem being that MPEG-4, MP3, etc.. files played just fine, but
> not ogg/vorbis.
> 
> I tested your work-around, and indeed, it fixed my problem (while
> previously I has using a customised codecs.conf file).
> 
> 
> > There were some changes from an older version I had copied previously
> 
> That isn't my case. I never had to copy that file to any directory to
> make MPlayer work fine. Therefore I'm puzzled. Why do I have a
> problem?
> Is there a codecs.conf file (copied in some way by a install script)
> flying around my disk that messes up with MPlayer? That's possible.

There may be an _old_ one somewhere, either installed by make install
or manually by you. codecs.conf is obsolete and should not be used
unless you really know what you're doing, since mplayer has had a
builtin default codecs.conf for a year or two now at least..

Rich