newbie: howto install mplayer codecs

[Ingemar Nilsson]

Stanton Finley <stanfinley at comcast.net> writes:

> You could follow the directions in the Xine section of
> http://stanton-finley.net/fedora_core_5_installation_notes.html It also
> covers mplayer codec installation.

May I ask why you suggest that I copy the codecs from
/usr/local/lib/codecs to /usr/lib/win32, rather than making /usr/lib/win32
a symbolic link to /usr/local/lib/codecs?

Regards
Ingemar