[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: [PATCH] CoreAVC [1/5] - Add registry

[Reimar Döffinger]

Hello,
On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 06:35:19AM -0700, Alan Nisota wrote:
> >> It is a bit uncomfortable to store user-specific settings in codecs.conf.
> >
> >IMHO it is not acceptable. A "normal" user should never have a custom
> >codecs.conf, it causes too much troubles esp. on updates.
> They aren't 'user-specific' they are 'codec-specific'.  I.e. I would
> expect that if you have the CoreAVC codec installed, you would have
> these entries as well.  If you want to offer up another way to
> accomplish the same thing, I'll be happy to go that way, but I was
> trying not to reinvent the wheel.

Well, actually I don't care about user/codec/whateverspecific. My point
was more that making people install codecs.conf is just a really bad
idea.
Alternatives (which all suck):
1) commandline option (but we already have so many...)
2) runtime patching (if PECompact is what I think this would be
extremely ugly, and some might have moral objections).

> >Maybe starting with support for the non-cost variants is a better idea
> >(esp. since those are the only ones I could test anyway).
> There is no such thing for CoreAVC

Huh? The very early incomplete versions did not have such a check IIRC. I
don't know if they are of much use, they AFAIK support neither CABAC not
interlaced, but still.

Greetings,
Reimar Döffinger