w32codecs

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Wed, 22 Nov 2006, Sam Varshavchik wrote:

> Matthew Miller writes:
>
> > On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 07:47:22PM -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> > > Not to my knowledge, but if you follow the multitude of links to download
> > > the mplayer-all codecs, all you have to do is unzip them in /lib/firmware,
> > > and you're done.
> >
> > "firmware"???
>
> <slap>
>
> /usr/lib/codecs, of course.

the README at http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/README suggests that the
correct location is /usr/local/lib/codecs/ (with the old location
being /usr/local/lib/win32).

unless you're installing directly from an RPM, i'd avoid putting stuff
in /usr/lib if it can just as easily go in /usr/local/lib.

rday