[MPlayer-users] Tracking down codecs

[Corey Hickey]

Arpi wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Hi,
> 
> 
>>You don't have to forgo the win32 codecs. Just compile and install 
>>mplayer as usual. Then, compile the mplayer.exe.so according to the
>>howto, put it somewhere (say your home directory), and only use
>>mplayer.exe.so when you need to.
> 
> 
> i doubt it will work... if you don't disable win32 support, then mplayer
> codecs (including quicktime) will use the built-in minimal loader, which
> is not enough (yet) to run quicktime...
>
No, I just mean that two mplayers can coexist. The usual mplayer
somewhere in $PATH, and mplayer.exe.so somewhere else. Thus:

$ mplayer div3.avi -vc divxds
-and-
$ wine z:/home/bugfood/mplayer.exe.so -- svq3.mov

can both be run without any intermediate reconfiguration.

-Corey