[MPlayer-users] Installing codecs

Dominik Mierzejewski dominik at rangers.eu.org
Mon Jul 21 09:44:35 CEST 2003


On Monday, 21 July 2003, Juan C. Gallardo wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> I would like to install some codecs that I found on the mplayerhq web pages,
> but I don't understand how to do it.
> It seems like for every codec family there's a different way.
> Is there any documentation on how to install codecs, specially the
> quicktimes codecs?

Just put them (the files) in /usr/lib/codecs or /usr/local/lib/codecs,
which AFAIR is the default codec location now. Check the configure script
if you're unsure.

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