[MPlayer-dev-eng] proposed new codecs.conf [Re: new video codec selection code]

[D Richard Felker III]

On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 09:18:05AM -0700, Mike Melanson wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Mar 2002, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> 
> >  > 	Solution: Copy over the new etc/codecs.conf file.
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > 
> > What's the status on this?  Is this going to replace the codecs.conf
> > from CVS?  That way we won't have to advise users to edit codecs.conf
> > for best performance..
> 
> 	I'm not sure if I understand the question. I meant that if you're
> compiling the latest CVS version of MPlayer, be sure to use the latest CVS
> version of the etc/codecs.conf file. I know there's a lot of discussion of
> a new etc/codecs.conf file, but I haven't been following that too
> carefully, and I wasn't referring to it, either. Just use the most recent
> version of etc/codecs.conf and the error(s) you were seeing should go
> away.

He was pointing out that my new proposed codecs.conf no longer works,
not asking for help making mplayer work when configured "properly"
with the new codecs.conf. As Arpi has said, lots of the codec ordering
still needs to be tweaked before we commit a major overhaul to
codecs.conf.

Rich