On 29 Aug 2009, at 22:34, Harry Putnam wrote:
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Well you can't expect emerge to read your mind. If you want
something, enable it. This is Gentoo, after all.
Ok... everybody is suddenly an expert... hehe.
My thinking ran something like: Mplayer may play *.mov files with its
own codec... therefor quicktime codecs might interfere....
Ok, so it isn't all that likely...
Actually, I think there used to be an mplayer USE flag that behaved in
exactly this way - it was associated with RealPlayer &/or their codecs.
However I would assume this to be the exception rather than the rule,
and one would generally assume that USE="x y z" adds support for x, y,
z.
I believe there has in the past & for this reason been some confusion
over this real / RealPlayer use flag. The devs masked it to prevent
Real's own crappy binaries being used (in favour of mplayer doing the
decoding itself) and I think there was some protest from people who
didn't apprecaite that their mplayer would continue to stream Radio 1
without it.
Stroller.
