[MPlayer-dev-eng] demux_GIF prob? Fwd: [MPlayer-users] aproblemand a questi

[michael c]

Joey Parrish wrote:
>Ah.  I see.  Well, first off, I recommend uninstalling giflib and
>making it a symbolic link to libungif.  Libungif is backwards
>compatible with libgif and is more bugfixed in every sense.

Ah :-) very interesting, didn't know that.

>I see now that in the case where both libgif and libungif are
>installed, libgif is taking precedence and causing problems with the
>new demux code.  Thus, this patch will make configure prefer libungif
>over libgif.

I guess the best way would be to check which one of them is newer, and then 
use that one. But of course, since I have no code for that, it's fine the 
way it is, too... thanks for the fix! :-)

mike

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