Bug 146043

Summary:	Automatically search Real codecs
Product:	[Unmaintained] kmplayer	Reporter:	Frederik Himpe <fhimpe>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Koos Vriezen <koos.vriezen>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	anssi.hannula
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Mandriva RPMs
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Frederik Himpe 2007-05-28 00:40:03 UTC

Version:           0.9.4a (using KDE KDE 3.5.7)
Installed from:    Mandriva RPMs

It would be great if KMPlayer could search Real codecs automatically in some set of standard locations (/usr/lib/real and others), and could configure Xine and MPlayer engines to use this directory.

The problem now is that there exist different locations where these codecs are installed, depending on how and what package the user exactly installed (RealPlayer, HelixPlayer, some kind of special package with only the real codecs,...). This makes it difficult to configure the correct location by default.

If KMplayer could search in some often used directories, it could find them automatically, and configure xine and mplayer accordingly.

This bug report inspired me for this proposal: http://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=26987

Comment 1 Anssi Hannula 2007-09-15 23:25:49 UTC

I think this should be done in the respective engines themselves, i.e. mplayer and xine-lib. I took a look, and actually this is already implemented in xine-lib.

Comment 2 Frederik Himpe 2007-09-15 23:46:46 UTC

Well, reading http://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=26987 it seems that kmplayer(xine) does not use this functionality then, so there is something to fix at least...

Comment 3 Anssi Hannula 2007-09-16 00:50:11 UTC

The pathlist of xine-lib just misses some directories.

Comment 4 Christoph Cullmann 2025-06-09 21:05:03 UTC

This project is unfortunately no longer maintained.

If a new maintainer wants to step up and take care, the project is archived here:

https://invent.kde.org/multimedia/kmplayer

You can just clone it in your private namespace on invent.kde.org and if you have started to work on it and fixed/implemented something get it reviewed and the project unarchived.

Sorry for the inconveniences.