bpa Wrote: 
> I believe the ffcook codec (which is the native RealAudio codec) is
> built into mplayer and is not a library in a directory. 
> 
> The codecs directory will be used if you specify you want to use the
> original external codec with the option "-ac racook" or mplayer needs a
> codec for a RealAudio format not support by ffcook (e.g. SIPR as used by
> NPR news).
> 
> This version of mplayer (using source after late Jan 06) gets rid of
> both the license issue and the codecs directory which has dogged
> mplayer installations.

That explains things. I had vaguely realised there had been mention of
mplayer no longer needing the codec, but I had not realised this had
reached the build for Mac OS.

It's going to make things a lot easier, and we can rewrite the
instructions soon.


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