[Mplayer-users] codecs.conf

[mdew]

On Sun, 26 Aug 2001 20:23:05 -0400
Ken Eshcirch <keschrich at snet.net> wrote:

> When I try to play an AVI file, I get the following error from mplayer:
> 
> Reading /usr/share/mplayer/codecs.conf: can't open
> '/usr/share/mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
> (copy/link etc/codecs.conf to ~/.mplayer/codecs.conf)
> 
> The problem is that I have no codecs.conf in my etc directory, nor anywhere
> else on my system.  What can I run to create this file, or what format must
> I use to create in manually?
> 
> Thanks
> Ken Eschrich
> 

a cvs update doesnt always recreate the codecs.conf, try rm'ing main ...and re-creating it using cvs checkout, this worked for me.

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