[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: mplayer - runtime win32 codecs dir selection

[The Wanderer]

Reimar Döffinger wrote:

> Hi, On Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 09:57:31PM -0500, The Wanderer wrote:
> 
>> What's the status of this patch? On the surface it looks fairly
>> trivial, but there seems to have been some question of whether or
>> not it should be applied.
> 
> If it works I'm all for it. Though I think it has the problem that
> MPlayer will always search in the default locations (i.e. path)
> first, which at least I dislike (esp. for windows users it might mean
> it will grap a version that does not work, dispite the right ones
> being installed).

 From what I can tell, the outcome of the discussion was that a different
solution was needed; Joey Parrish suggested two, but no one provided any
alternate patches.

Unless people speak up in favor of this in the next day or two, I'll
drop it from my tracker.

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