[mythtv-users] knopp-myth + mplayer Q

[yan seiner]

Cecil Watson wrote:

>>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....
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>http://mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design7/info.html#docs
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>>>However, you have to recompile MPlayer to take advantage of additional
>>>codecs.  
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>>Bah humbug!  That's what I was trying to avoid....
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>So I should include support for every codec under the sun and become the
>possible target of a lawsuit?  No thanks.
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OK, perhaps the humor got lost in the email.... I certainly meant no 
offense and I understand perfectly that you must limit your  scope 
otherwise bad things will happen.

I have a self-compiled version of mencoder on one box; videos produced 
on this box won't play due to codec incompatibility on the KnoppMyth 
boxen.  The "Bah humbug" was for me; I was hoping to just copy the 
codecs from the recording box to the frontends, without having to build 
new versions of software.

I won't bore you with the long saga of my computer frustrations over the 
last three weeks; suffice it to say that pretty much everything that 
could go wrong, has, and I've finally this morning gotten all my 
frontends and backend rebuilt and stable, videos off the backup drive, 
and find that some won't play because the codecs are different...

On the bright side, I get to build mplayer with support for xmga and 
AthlonXP...

--Yan