Re: [gentoo-dev] Issues with mplayer-0.18pre ebuild (mplayer-0.18pre-r1.ebuild)

[Martin Schlemmer]

On Sat, 2001-09-22 at 16:46, Karl Trygve Kalleberg wrote:

> I'm not advocating "dumbing down" our users; but I do think it only fair
> to make a notice to the user that "this package does, contrary to what one
> would expect, does not work without manual configuration".
>
> I find it repulsive that I have to manually configure my video player to
> get it to run at all. I have not problems accepting that I will have to
> manually tweak it to obtain optimal performance. But the point of using a
> distro (any kind of distro) in the first place was to avoid doing all the
> strictly unnecessary details. I would expect the packagers to set up
> reasonable defaults in the configuration files, whenever that is possible.
>
> In this specific case, it seems to be very possible, since what I did to
> get mplayer to run was simply unpack the codecs.conf.gz file into
> .mplayer/codecs.conf of the user that should run mplayer, and it all
> worked okay.
>

hehe

ok, here is updated mplayer .ebuild.  It tries to use the USE variable
to construct a /etc/mplayer.conf.

also added is w32codecs-0.18.ebuild, which should go to media-libs, and
is a depend of mplayer-0.18_pre-r1

in detecting what config should be used, worked as follow:
 
Video: if use X: sdl -> ggi -> gl -> x11
       if ! use X: fbdev -> svga

Audio sdl -> alsa -> oss -> esd

I think we need another USE variable XV for XVideo extension, since it
is more usable than gl, and a few apps use it, will use in future.


greetings
MS