[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] README

[Diego Biurrun]

D Richard Felker III writes:
 > On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 06:55:08PM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
 > > +libavcodec directory back into the MPlayer source tree.  The libac3, liba52 and
 > > +mpglib subdirectories are not required so you may delete them if you wish.
 > 
 > Sorry to make you keep changing things, but I think this is rather
 > important. MPlayer itself also has a liba52 directory, and we wouldn't
 > want users deleting it thinking it's unnecessary. That last sentence
 > could probably just be removed to avoid any confusion.

Agreed, it's not much space anyway.

 > > +Unpack the archive and choose one of the available font sizes.  Then create the
 > > +directory ~/.mplayer/font/ and copy the font files into that directory.
 > 
 > Wouldn't /usr/local/share/mplayer/fonts be better?
 > 
 > > +unpack it and put the contents in ~/.mplayer/Skin/default/.
 > 
 > Same here?

Yes, that is probably better, since then it is installed system wide.
Requires moving the sections around, though, since the directory gets
created by make install.

 > > +to configure MPlayer with the default options.  The options you installed above
 > > +should be autodetected, except GUI support, which has to be enabled separately,
 > > +run
 > > +
 > > +  ./configure --enable-gui
 > > +
 > > +if you want to use the GUI.
 > 
 > IIRC, someone said to remember to mention that the GUI is alpha quality code.

It's mentioned in the first paragraph, but I will add a warning to the
skin installation section.

 > Looks good for the most part. Sorry to keep bringing up problems. I
 > hope we get this new README included soon...sure it'll solve a lot of
 > RTFM'ing problems and keep new users from getting pissed off as much.

Please _do_ bring up any issues that come to your mind.  I absolutely
want to hear about it.

Patch, latest version attached

Diego


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