Re: [gentoo-dev] Issues with mplayer-0.18pre ebuild

[Martin Schlemmer <azarah@saintmail.net>]

On Thu, 2001-09-20 at 23:27, Karl Trygve Kalleberg wrote:
> This ebuild does not install /etc/mplayer.conf.
> 
> Is there any particular reason for this ?
> 
> To get it to run, the codecs.conf.gz must be manually installed in
> .mplayer/codecs.conf by each user, which is unneccessarily cumbersome.
> 
> Does anybody (Bruce ?) have more detailed knowledge about this ?
> 

Problem with having a devault /etc/mplayer.conf, is that mplayer can 
have so many different setup's.  Should it use SDL, OpenGL, X11, XV,
framebuffer dev,etc for video?  And what about sound ?

I am no .ebuild expert, nor mplayer, although it is the video player
I use by default, but am prepared to hack the mplayer .ebuild a bit.
All I need is some suggestions as how to handle the .conf file?

Do we:
1) look for X in USE, if so make libSDL a required depend and install
   a .conf that use SDL for sound and video (since SDL can make use of
   accel and also autodetect the sound ...)?
2) if ! X in USE, assume that the framebuffer dev will be used and
   install a .conf accordingly ?

This is the easiest way of doing it as far as I can see.  X11 do not 
give decent output, and determining if OpenGL sould be used, or XV, or
DGE, etc can be difficult, and since SDL can autodetect this, it should
make things easier ... same with audio ....


Some suggestions will be appreciated.

Greetings
MS