[MPlayer-DOCS] CVS: main/DOCS/xml/en faq.xml,1.65,1.66

Guillaume POIRIER guillaume.poirier at etudiant.univ-rennes1.fr
Wed Mar 23 14:18:18 CET 2005


Hi,

Diego Biurrun a écrit :
> On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 11:32:23PM +0100, Torinthiel wrote:
> 
>>On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 10:32:51PM +0100, Guillaume Poirier CVS wrote:
>>
>>>+Newer Mplayer versions can't work with an old codecs.conf file because the
>>
>>MPlayer. And I'd rework that sentence. MPlayer can work with old
>>codecs.conf. Only it's not guaranteed to work properly.
>>And it kind of suggests that if you have codecs.conf without new Vorbis
>>FourCC than MPlayer won't launch at all.
>>Will fix when I have time.
> 
> 
> Sorry for not speaking up earlier, but all of this is kind of redundant,
> there is already the following FAQ:
> 
> Q: I cannot pinpoint the cause of some strange playback problem.
> A: Do you have a stray codecs.conf file in ~/.mplayer/, /etc/,
> /usr/local/etc/ or a similar location? Remove it, outdated codecs.conf
> files can cause obscure problems. MPlayer will use its built-in one
> instead. 
> 
> The problem is that it is not very prominent.  Guillaume, I suggest you
> remove your FAQ and move this one up to the top of the playback section
> instead.

A quick note to the translators: please hold on for the moment regarding 
that new entry. I'll change following Diego's and The Wonderer's 
suggestions.

Regards,
Guillaume




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