Where does Livna's MPlayer look for codecs?

[Robin Laing]

John Wendel wrote:
> 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?
>>
>>
>> I've been using /usr/lib/win32, and I have /usr/local/lib/win32 linked 
>> to it as well. Ric
>>
>>
>>
>>
> 
> 
> 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
> 

Until tmpwatch deletes them.  Had this happen to me with some pictures.


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Robin Laing