Mike, Send/post the perl code you have so far - and I'll take a look - I've done some LWP:: stuff before and it shouldn't be too tricky to make it work. Malc.

Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2002 21:58:47 -0700 (MST) From: Mike Melanson <melanson@pcisys.net> To: mplayer-dev-eng@mplayer.dev.hu Subject: [MPlayer-dev-eng] Automatic Codec Downloader Reply-To: mplayer-dev-eng@mplayerhq.hu

Hi team, Has anyone ever considered modifying the MPlayer distribution so that it can download codecs automatically from Microsoft? I figured out how to do it and tried to code it up this evening, but hit a roadblock when I tried to write a Perl script to do the downloading part.

I was thinking that the configure script could ask the user if they wanted to download codecs from Microsoft's site and then launch this script, which would gather up the FOURCCs and format numbers from etc/codecs.conf and download the required codec files Microsoft. The codecs are packaged as .CAB (cabinet) files, and there's a GPL'd tool for extracting the data that could be distributed with MPlayer. MPlayer would keep them in the installation tree and install them in the right place during the 'make install' phase. We could later adapt the script to download XAnim modules and others as well.

Anyway, if there's any interest, and/or if anyone knows how to program the Perl WWW lib (LWP), let me know.

Thanks... -- -Mike Melanson

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