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

[Diego Biurrun]

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' ...

Diego