[mythtv-users] knopp-myth + mplayer Q
yan seiner
yan at seiner.com
Mon Feb 27 19:09:58 UTC 2006
Cecil Watson wrote:
>yan seiner wrote:
>
>
>>Does anyone know where to put additional/new codecs for the version of
>>mplayer that ships with knopp-myth?
>>
>>I tried /usr/local/share but mplayer is not picking them up....
>>
>>--Yan
>>
>>
>If you've read the MPlayer docs (hint hint hint), you'd see that codecs
>go in /usr/lib/codecs or /usr/local/lib/codecs and /usr/lib/win32 (if I
>remember correctly on this one and a few other possible locations).
>
>
OK, thanks.... I've never run across that in the mplayer docs, but I
must not have looked too closely.... There is no codecs dir on either
of my knopp-myth boxes, so I figured that they chose a different
location....
>However, you have to recompile MPlayer to take advantage of additional
>codecs.
>
Bah humbug! That's what I was trying to avoid....
>If you search the forum, you'll find a write up on recompiling
>MPlayer. However, if you read the most excellent MPlayer docs it
>contains all you need to know.
>
>
OK, I'll grab the sources and go from there.... I was trying to be lazy...
--Yan
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