[MPlayer-cvslog] CVS: main/DOCS/tech codecs.conf.txt,1.5,1.6

[Ivan Kalvachev]

On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 16:51:13 -0500
The Wanderer <inverseparadox at comcast.net> wrote:

> Oops. I didn't get to this in time before application... usually there's
> more of a delay than that, so I thought I'd have a bit more time. ^_^
> 
> Diego Biurrun CVS wrote:
> 
> >  users to access, or in the .mplayer directory in a user's home
> >  directory. When MPlayer starts, it first looks for a codecs.conf file in a
> >  user's home directory. Failing that, it searches for the shared file. If
> 
> ...is this even correct? According to my understanding, which does not
> seem to be readily contradicted by a quick glance at the source code,
> MPlayer does not look for ~/codecs.conf but for ~/.mplayer/codecs.conf;
> that does not seem to be what this says.
> 
> > -it can't find a codecs.conf file, MPlayer will refuse to run.
> > +the file has syntax errors, MPlayer will not start and report the error.
> 
> I might suggest something like "If the file is not present, MPlayer will
> use its internal version. If the file is present but has syntax
> errors,", etc.
> 
> > -The "out" keyword identifies which output format that the decoder is known
> > +The "out" keyword identifies which output format the decoder is known
> >  to output.
> 
> Repetition. Suggest "is known to provide".
> 
> >  The "format" keyword performs a similar job as the fourcc line. However,
> >  since certain media file formats (notably AVI) identify audio formats with
> >  16-bit numbers rather than 32-bit FOURCCs, it's necessary to use this
> > -convention to accomodate them. However, as shown in this example, FOURCCs
> > +convention to accommodate them. However, as shown in this example, FOURCCs
> >  can also be specified with the format keyword as long as they're converted
> >  to their hex representation. It's important to note that this can be
> >  useful for video codecs as well if a FOURCC contains a space (such as
> >  Apple's "rle " codec).
> 
> Everywhere else in this patch that I've noticed, "fourcc" has been
> entirely lowercase. Here, it's all caps. I'm not sure I like either of
> these, and I'm not sure that any of the obvious alternatives is better,
> but at the very least we should standardize on one form.
> 
The right casing is FourCC as it stands for Four Character Codes.
It is written somewhere in microsoft.

Wish You Best
   Ivan Kalvachev
  iive