[MPlayer-users] mplayer and joined mpg files by mpgtx -j

[Nico Sabbi]

Jouni.Lohikoski at iki.fi wrote:

>On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 09:48:26PM +0200, Nico Sabbi wrote:
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>>>Could you try if "-vc ffmpeg1" fixes the problem for you too?
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>>yes, it's my default, and libmpeg2 blocks
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>How you have set it up so ffmpeg1 is the default codec to be used for
>MPEG1 files? Using codecs.conf ?
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no, add
vc=ffmpeg12,
to your ~/.mplayer/config

>This may be a FAQ issue, but what is the meaning of codecs.conf
>nowadays? It seems to me, lately mplayer runs just fine without any in
>/etc/mplayer/ , except of course now when MPEG1 fails using libmpeg.
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it's needed when trying new/custom/experimental codecs (e.g. binary ones)

>I've also seen the dates (release) in example codecs.conf files are rather 
>old, so I am afraid I will break some new features if I install
>codecs.conf and not use mplayer's automatic codec recognizability.
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remove it altogether