[MPlayer-dev-eng] installing codecs.conf obsolete?

[Kevin DeKorte]

Arpi,

The reason I wanted to know what plugins are available is so that the my 
program could automatically determine what mime-types to support without a 
configuration file. It appears that I will not do this as simply as I would 
like. The main reason I wanted to do this was if an install of mplayer did 
not support realmedia or quicktime then I would not register those mime-types 
in mozilla. 

Kevin

On Saturday 12 July 2003 10:22 am, Arpi wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > I am the author the mplayerplugin and I orginally thought that the
> > codecs.conf was customized per install of mplayer. I am not sure that is
> > true so I need
>
> no
> codecs.conf always contains every possible codec, but the available
> ones are decided and compiled-in to mplayer binary at compile time.
> you shoudl run mplayer -vfm help and -afm help to get the list of
> codec drivers (plugins) available, and use only codecs.conf entries
> with 'driver' being one of the listed drivers.
>
> > another way to determine what codecs are installed in mplayer. So I
> > believe I will be dropping the requirement to read codecs.conf.
>
> good idea
> btw why do you need to know in the plugin that what codecs are available?
> it's auto-selected by mpalyer, you do not have to always specify by -ac/-vc
>
>
> A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team
>
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