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["David Moberg" <davidjmoberg AT lycos.com>]

Hi Ron,

----- Original Message -----
From: "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.

Did you compile MPlayer before or after installing codecs? If the
former, my MPlayer should work great. If the latter, you may be
out of luck.

> > 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.

I meant the HTML documentation on the MPlayer site. Sometimes the
documentation can be bewildering (due to its size), but it has some
useful information.

>      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.

The static compiling shouldn't affect this. The codecs are statically
compiled for your specific platform (Linux i386). It's more of a question
of whether the MPlayer code itself has actually been configured to
look for the codecs, which I am not sure of.

David

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