[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] Do not read codecs.conf files by default

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

On Sat, Jan 13, 2007 at 07:47:44PM +0200, Jan Knutar wrote:
> On Saturday 13 January 2007 17:25, Attila Kinali wrote:
> 
> > Addendum: make a flag loaded_external_codecsconf and
> > print an appropriate error message when mplayer fails
> > while looking for a codec. Then it would be even better
> > visible.
> 
> And the grand utopian holy grail, on top of the above:
> make MPlayer ignore external codecs.conf and retry
> with internal only, if playing the file fails due to codec
> failure, or due to demuxer failure where there's more than
> one demuxer available depending on codec implementation
> used (theora, mpc?)..
> 
> Utopian, perhaps...

no, stupid

the user who commented out some things which she saw exploints on
bugtraq will really be happy to find out that mplayer in case of
failure will try its internal configuration files

IMO the only sensible thing is to fail if theres any problem with
the users codecs.conf and tell her about the problem not to leave the
possibly bad file there and then do something which might be the total
opposite of what the user wanted ...

[...]

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