[Mplayer-advusers] Fw: [MPlayer-users] [Bug] Mlayer/MP3Lib ?

[Diego Biurrun]

Andrew Church writes:
 > >> btw. the codec config system is great and simple, but there is one thing
 > >> i don't like.
 > >> 
 > >> usually i don't want to customize the whole codecs.conf, i only want to
 > >> adjust it a little, for example:never-use-mp3lib. for that i have to  i
 > >> copy the /usr/local/etc/codecs.conf to $HOME/.mplayer, and edit it.
 > >
 > >argh. i did say that RTFM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 > >changing codecs.conf is not the recomemnded way to customize the codecs
 > >order. look at -ac/-vc/-avf/-vfm
 > 
 >      I think you're missing the point; the question, as I read it was not
 > "how do you change the search order of codecs?", but "how do you make a
 > small (arbitrary) change to the codec configuration without having to copy
 > the entire codecs.conf to ~/.mlpayer and modify it for every release?".
 > The manual doesn't say anything about this--or, for that matter, about
 > using -ac/-vc/-afm(?)/-vfm rather than changing codecs.conf to change the
 > order of codecs--so "RTFM" is not appropriate here (though "you can't"
 > would be).

Just put

vfm=XXX

in your config file.

Diego