[MPlayer-dev-eng] Error with MEncoder configuration file

[Diego Biurrun]

On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 06:52:30PM +0100, Guillaume POIRIER wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 3/13/06, Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 04:15:43PM +0200, Ivan Kalvachev wrote:
> > > 2006/3/13, Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de>:
> > > > On Sun, Mar 12, 2006 at 04:50:50PM +0100, Benjamin Zores wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > As a result, /etc/mplayer/mencoder is recognized as well as ~/.mplayer/mencoder.
> > > > > But /etc/mplayer/mencoder.conf isn't recognized as it should be.
> > > > >
> > > > > Mistake in code (i vote for) or typo in MAN page ?
> > > >
> > > > I vote for changing it to mencoder.conf.  I think we had weird problems
> > > > with MEncoder trying to parse itself as configuration file on Windows or
> > > > something.
> > >
> > > Agree
> >
> > OK, how about this patch then.  Have I overlooked something?
> >
> > > maybe we should rename mplayer to mplayer.conf too.
> >
> > Umm, the global configuration file is named mplayer.conf already.  Do
> > you want to change the name of the individual config file as well.  What
> > about backwards compatibility?
> 
> There hasn't been a formal release where "mencoder" config file
> existed (or at least, was documented as existing), so I'd say we just
> don't care about backward compatibility.

Umm, read closer, I was talking about the MPlayer config file..

Diego