[MPlayer-dev-eng] [RFC] binary codec default support and default directories

[Diego Biurrun]

This has been bugging me for ages and now it's come to bite back:

http://bugzilla.mplayerhq.hu/show_bug.cgi?id=608

Binary codec support only gets enabled when a codec directory is found.
This is a bug, there is no fallback.

Also, we check for the existence of a ton of directories from RealPlayer
or Xanim installations.  IMO this is all nonsense nowadays.  We have
complete and supported codec packages, that's all we need.

I propose enabling binary codecs support by default, check for the
location of the few locations where our codec packages are commonly
found ($libdir/codecs and $libdir/win32) and fall back on $libdir/codecs
if no codec directory is found.

Diego