[MPlayer-dev-eng] Error with MEncoder configuration file

[Rich Felker]

On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 04:15:43PM +0200, Ivan Kalvachev wrote:
> 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.

There is no config file "mplayer". It's either mplayer.conf (global)
or config (in ~/.mplayer).

Rich