[MPlayer-dev-eng] Error with MEncoder configuration file
Ivan Kalvachev
ikalvachev at gmail.com
Mon Mar 13 15:15:43 CET 2006
2006/3/13, Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de>:
> 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.
Agree, maybe we should rename mplayer to mplayer.conf too.
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