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["Bearcat M. Sandor" <Sorcerer AT TheDragonsEdge.com>]

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AlleyCat,

Thank you. Your work is impeccable as always.

But then, this is coming from another cat...

;)

On Wednesday 14 July 2004 02:57 in an email titled "Re: [SM-Discuss] Mplayer, 
win32codecs, w32codec..WTF?" Arwed von Merkatz wrote:
>On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 07:15:28PM -0600, Bearcat M. Sandor wrote:
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>> Hey folks,
>>
>> Ok, I updated Mplayer-codecs and was asked if i wanted cast
>> quicktime-codecs, real-codecs, xanim-codecs. I said 'yes' to all.  After
>> all, I want to be able to play everything in MPlayer.
>>
>> Then I was told that all of the codecs i had just said yes to conflicted
>> with MPlayer-codecs..huh?   Is that right?  So the options conflict with
>> the spell they are options for?
>>
>> Then i found that:
>>
>> win32codecs conflicts with w32codec. Dispel w32codec? [y]
>>
>> what is the difference?  w32codec has a lot of dependances in my system.
>
>All of this is caused by a split/rename that happened for the codec
>spells. MPlayer-codecs is deprecated and will eventually be removed, it
>doesn't install anything anymore, that's done by quicktime-codecs,
>real-codecs and xanim-codecs. w32codec has been renamed to win32codecs
>because that's how the package has always been named and w32codec was a
>stupid name to begin with.

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