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[Ron Clarke <ariadne AT earthlink.com.au>]

Hi David,

On Wed, 25 May 2005 15:24:54 -0500
"David Moberg" <davidjmoberg AT lycos.com> wrote:

> Hi Ron,
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ron Clarke" <ariadne AT earthlink.com.au>
> 
> >      Would your player3 be able to use codecs that were NOT 
> > compiled-in, but are available in my file system ?
> > Or doesn't it even look for them ?
> 
> I'm not sure if it looks for codecs at all. I don't have much
> interest in using the codecs. You may need to experiment to
> find out if external codecs work. The codec installation
> process is definitely not for the faint of heart.

   I have the codecs already installed in a Slackware9.1 partition, where 
they are used by mplayer that I compiled dynamically from a full source 
package. All that it took was to place the codecs into /usr/local/lib/codecs 
and mplayer knew where to find them. 
 
> I would have a look at the MPlayer documentation and see if
> it answers your questions about external codecs. The website
> for MPlayer is at <http://mplayerhq.hu/>.

    From memory, there is nothing in the man that indicates either way.

    My question was more about whether your static compilation had altered 
that function.  I have mirrored the codecs into BL2, but I cannot tell if 
those codecs are being accessed or not.
 
Regards,
         Ron

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Ron Clarke 
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