[MPlayer-users] Why not make an installer?

[jason]

On Mon, 2003-12-22 at 05:08, Ari Huttunen wrote:

> In case of mplayer the previous option is not too useful, because the
> version compiled in a distro is almost certain to lack the features
> that you want, like mp3lame. What makes this a real problem is that
> you have to have mp3lame compiled before you compile mplayer for it
> to work.

oh duh.  forgot.  Is there a particular reason why it can't be loaded at
runtime going forward?  (I guess it would mean the lame team would have
to have backwards compatibility for external interfaces?)