[MPlayer-DOCS] missing codec directory documentation?

Fri Feb 18 03:16:07 CET 2005

On Thursday, 17 February 2005 at 18:51, Jan Knutar wrote:
> On Thursday 17 February 2005 04:55, compn wrote:
> 
> > there it is. change it or more users will come in to #mplayer :(
> 
> A link the the section in the installation docs would be nice too,
> so that the users know to either manually specify codec dir at
> configure time, or install the codecs before running configure.
> 
> Anyone know if all the nonofficial binary packages have the
> codec directory in random locations, too? :-)

The packaging guidelines say that codecs should go in /usr/lib/codecs, but
I don't think anybody is following them just yet, judging by the amount of
feedback I received about my doc.

R.

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