[MPlayer-users] questions about conf files

[Loren Merritt]

On Sun, 4 Jul 2004, Cheryl Homiak wrote:

> I notice that I don't have any of the conf files for fonts, mplayer and
> codecs that mplayer is looking for at startup; they are not in a
> ~/.mplayer file or in /usr/local anywhere or in /etc. are these necessary
> and do I have to create them from scratch or are there default files
> somewhere that I can copy into the appropriate places? I have used "find"
> on my system and none of these files exist? Also, I haven't found something
> like a "quiet" option so that I don't have to see all those messages
> every time mplayer starts up; is there such an option.
> Thanks.

You don't need codecs.conf (It's just in case you want to mess with
which codec mplayer uses to decode a given format.)
However, I don't think you can turn off those messages.

You do probably want fonts. The easiest way to get them is to select a
truetype font you like and copy/symlink it to ~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf

--Loren Merritt