[MPlayer-DOCS] missing codec directory documentation?

Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski dominik at rangers.eu.org
Fri Feb 25 22:15:34 CET 2005


On Friday, 18 February 2005 at 12:13, Jiri Heryan wrote:
> 
> >>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.
> >
> > 
> >
> Especially in windows clone is /usr/lib/codecs hard to follow. I has a  
> several windows binaries (mingw) and they tend to place codecs in 
> <instdir>; <instdir>\codecs; %home%\mplayer\codecs and maybe somewhere else.

Well, that document was written with unix-like OSes in mind, so you may
assume that some or all of it doesn't apply to the win32 port.

R.

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