mplayer/mplayer-plugin question

[Gary Kline]

On Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 01:01:30PM -0500, Paul Schmehl wrote:
> You should forward this information to the freebsd-ports list.  I'm sure 
> they'd like to know this, because it's abnormal design.  The conf file 
> *should* be in /usr/local/etc and there *should* be a pkg-message file that 
> tells the installer what to do post-install.

	At least a symlink to /usr/local/etc, and the post-install note.
	This brings up the qauestion of the Powers-that-Be creating
	symlinks to /etc/local (as a min) and /etc/X11R6.  (Should *ANY*
	non-system GUI have its conf in /etc/X11R6/etc?  ... [*mumble*])

	gary

> 
> --On Friday, April 22, 2005 10:52:33 AM -0700 Gary Kline 
> <kline at tao.thought.org> wrote:
> 
> >On Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 02:09:29AM -0400, jason henson wrote:
> >>Gary Kline wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 10:00:12PM -0400, jason henson wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>Is it up to date?
> >>
> >>You mean the port?
> >>/usr/ports/multimedia/win32-codecs
> >>
> >>You mean the install location?
> >>/usr/local/lib/win32/
> >
> >	Thanks.  I was searching on codec.  If you didn't catch my post
> >	from Thursday, I finally found the reason the mplayer-plugin
> >	was failing was that I hadn't touched|found
> >	/usr/X116R/etc/mplayerplug-in.conf.  The porter or author left
> >	everything commented.   I suggested adding a blurb to the port
> >	Makefile or else uncommenting enough variables to allow some
> >	min functionality--this *with* a Makefile blurb.  I was looking
> >	in /usr/local/etc for the configuration file.  ...
> >
> >	Anyhow, mplayer works only that the volume is distorted.
> 
> 
> 
> Paul Schmehl (pauls at utdallas.edu)
> Adjunct Information Security Officer
> The University of Texas at Dallas
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> http://www.utdallas.edu

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