[MPlayer-users] codec installation

[Catalin Muresan]

09:01:06 [cnn(pts/4)$,0,~] strings `which mplayer` | grep lib/win32
/usr/lib/win32
/usr/local/lib/win32

	i admit i haven't looked at the code but i remember having a very
good reason for making the symlink.

On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 03:41:18PM -0400, D Richard Felker III wrote:
 > [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
 > On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 06:20:00PM +0300, Catalin Muresan wrote:
 > > [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
 > > On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 11:12:40AM -0400, Andrew Hume wrote:
 > >  > [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
 > >  > despite really trying, i cannot figure out where i am supposed to install codecs.
 > >  > there is a hint that win32 codecs should be in /usr/lib/win32, although
 > >  > i would expect that in that case, teh directory in the windows
 > >  > codecs tarfile to bin win32, and it isn't. and this seems an unlikely
 > >  > candidate for all teh other codecs. and /etc/mplayer/codecs.conf
 > >  > contains no pathnames.
 > > 
 > > 	install them in /usr/lib/win32 (the files directly in that dir, no
 > > subdirs) and make /usr/local/lib/win32 a symlink to that dir.
 > 
 > IMO putting them in /usr/lib is silly. Just put them in /usr/local/lib
 > (if you need them at all) and they should work fine. (Where work fine
 > means decode divx really slowly and crash on broken files. :))
 > 
 > Rich
 > 
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