[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] codecs.html clarification

Felix Buenemann atmosfear at users.sourceforge.net
Wed Jun 5 03:31:55 CEST 2002


On Wednesday 22 May 2002 20:36, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> D Richard Felker III writes:
>  > On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 11:28:41AM -0400, John L. Clark wrote:
>  > > I had been confused by the libavcodec subdirectory that was already
>  > > present in CVS MPlayer, even with the current documentation (which is
>  > > quite accurate in this area), so I added a quick note for
>  > > clarification. I don't know if it's necessary, but I found it helpful.
>  > >  See the attached patch.
>  >
>  > Out of curiousity, why does this fake libavcodec dir even exist? It
>  > just seems to confuse new users to CVS, and it's a pain to rm -rf it
>  > before copying the real one into place...
>
> Why not simply put the CVS directory from the FFmpeg libavcodec
> directory into its place?  That way all these instructions would
> become unnecessary.  All you have to do is say 'cvs update' ...

I've just got another funny idea, what about having libavcodec sources right 
inside mplayer main/ cvs and have a cronjob at mphq that updates it regularly 
from sf?

>
> Diego

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        Atmos
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