[MPlayer-DOCS] CVS: main/DOCS/xml/en faq.xml,1.65,1.66

[Diego Biurrun]

On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 11:32:23PM +0100, Torinthiel wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 10:32:51PM +0100, Guillaume Poirier CVS wrote:
> > 
> > +Newer Mplayer versions can't work with an old codecs.conf file because the
> 
> MPlayer. And I'd rework that sentence. MPlayer can work with old
> codecs.conf. Only it's not guaranteed to work properly.
> And it kind of suggests that if you have codecs.conf without new Vorbis
> FourCC than MPlayer won't launch at all.
> Will fix when I have time.

Sorry for not speaking up earlier, but all of this is kind of redundant,
there is already the following FAQ:

Q: I cannot pinpoint the cause of some strange playback problem.
A: Do you have a stray codecs.conf file in ~/.mplayer/, /etc/,
/usr/local/etc/ or a similar location? Remove it, outdated codecs.conf
files can cause obscure problems. MPlayer will use its built-in one
instead. 

The problem is that it is not very prominent.  Guillaume, I suggest you
remove your FAQ and move this one up to the top of the playback section
instead.  Or do you think the FAQ entry should be more detailed or
clearer in saying that codecs.conf files are EVIL unless you are a
developer.

Diego