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

Hi David,

On Wed, 25 May 2005 17:22:25 -0500
"David Moberg" <davidjmoberg AT lycos.com> wrote:

> >     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.

    It won't compile if the codecs are not there.
Hmph !    I guess I am 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.

   I might go and have a look another time.
 
> >      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.

   Well, I might just leave well enough alone.  Mplayer3 is running in BL2 
and BL3 and is able to cope with most video forms, and can certainly play 
mp3s and oggs.  If I need anything more fancy that that, I still have 
RealPlayer, QV, MTV, Xanim and Xine in BL2, and Gxine and MPlayer in SW9.

Regards,
        Ron

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