[MPlayer-dev-eng] spring cleanup

[Diego Biurrun]

On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 02:07:23PM +0300, Ivan Kalvachev wrote:
> 2007/3/21, Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de>:
> >
> >So while we're at it, why not go over the complete list of files in
> >TOOLS/ ..
> [...]
> >
> >- w32codec_dl.pl
> >
> >We distribute all necessary codecs, I don't see what this is good for.
> 
> I'd like to keep that one.
> 
> # this script will use MS's codec dl interface as used by MS Media Player
> # to attempt to locate the codecs listed in codecs.conf. It will download
> # them to a directory "codecs/" below the current dir.
> 
> At one time there was attempt to avoid distributing binary codecs and
> let mplayer do the same as wmp, get them directly from microsoft. That
> functionality wasn't build-into mplayer (I think) for security
> reasons, but this script was created instead.
> 
> I don't know why it never got popular, probably because of the
> "cabextract" dependency and lack of documentation.

You should try it, then you will understand.  It takes aaaaages to run
and only procures a handful of codecs, most of them useless.

I don't mind keeping it though, if you consider it useful.

> >- install-w32codecs.sh
> 
> This one is good to go. It downloads our w32codecs.

No, it's from the official Debian package and could be reused by other
distros.

Diego