[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] mencoder to load win32 codecs properly

[Sascha Sommer]

On Thursday 13 October 2005 14:51, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 02:40:15PM +0200, Sascha Sommer wrote:
> > Also the current content of the PATH environment variable gets discarded.
>
> Isn't that what the current code does? IMHO MPlayer shouldn't try to
> load the dlls from all over the place, it might end up with one that
> doesn't work instead of the one from the codec pack.
> Maybe this should be done completely differently...
>

Yes, it is what the current code does, but I think it will also try to load 
the dll from windows/system32 first, ignoring $PATH. I only thought that it 
might be usefull to add additional paths without having to recompile MPlayer.

Sascha