[MPlayer-dev-eng] Error with MEncoder configuration file
Diego Biurrun
diego at biurrun.de
Mon Mar 13 12:12:34 CET 2006
On Sun, Mar 12, 2006 at 04:50:50PM +0100, Benjamin Zores wrote:
>
> According to the CVS Man page :
>
> "The configuration file for MEncoder is ???mencoder.conf??? in
> your configuration directory (e.g. /etc/mplayer or /usr/local/etc/
> mplayer), the user specific one is ???~/.mplayer/mencoder."
>
> According to the mencoder.c source :
>
> void me_parse_cfgfiles( m_config_t* conf )
> {
> char *conffile;
> if ((conffile = get_path("mencoder")) == NULL) {
> mp_msg(MSGT_CPLAYER,MSGL_ERR,MSGTR_GetpathProblem);
> } else {
> if (m_config_parse_config_file(conf, conffile) < 0)
> mencoder_exit(1,MSGTR_ConfigfileError);
> free(conffile);
> }
> }
>
> As a result, /etc/mplayer/mencoder is recognized as well as ~/.mplayer/mencoder.
> But /etc/mplayer/mencoder.conf isn't recognized as it should be.
>
> Mistake in code (i vote for) or typo in MAN page ?
I vote for changing it to mencoder.conf. I think we had weird problems
with MEncoder trying to parse itself as configuration file on Windows or
something.
Diego
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