[MPlayer-users] Opus audio

[stan]

On Fri, 19 Oct 2018 21:20:43 +0200
Philipp Stanner <stanner at posteo.de> wrote:

> Ok, great to know :)
> 
> But some codecs are supported natively without linking to other
> libraries? Thinking about it this way I wonder why anyone would
> support codecs natively in any case, as you can just link to the
> responsible libs.

No, all codecs are supported by linking to libraries.  Other people have
thought the same way you have.  :-)  The difference here is that the
code doing the linking is from another project, ffmpeg, and not from
the mplayer code.  If you compile the mplayer source, you will see that
ffmpeg is embedded as part of the build process.  If the switch is set
correctly, it even goes and grabs the latest code from the ffmpeg git
repository.