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
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.
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...
The pathlist of xine-lib just misses some directories.
This project is unfortunately no longer maintained.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.