Where does Livna's MPlayer look for codecs?

[John Wendel]

Ric Moore wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-09-19 at 11:55 -0400, Andre Robatino wrote:
>>   Could someone who uses Livna and its version of MPlayer tell me where 
>> it looks for codecs?  Is it /usr/lib/win32 (which is supposed to be 
>> deprecated) or /usr/lib/codecs?
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> I've been using /usr/lib/win32, and I have /usr/local/lib/win32 linked to it as well. Ric
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Use the source Luke!

A little grep will show that mplayer searches all the directories, 
/usr/lib/codecs, /usr/lib/win32, /usr/local/lib/codecs and 
/usr/local/lib/win32. Links not required.

So put your codecs in /tmp/codecs where they will be safely hidden.

Regards,

John