From 54632cac163ba5938572380a7f8e07fc8740668c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: diego <diego@b3059339-0415-0410-9bf9-f77b7e298cf2>
Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2003 17:35:34 +0000
Subject: Strings attached to codecs.conf explained. Based on a patch by Andrew
 Church <achurch@achurch.org>.

git-svn-id: svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk@10404 b3059339-0415-0410-9bf9-f77b7e298cf2
---
 DOCS/xml/en/install.xml | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

(limited to 'DOCS/xml/en/install.xml')

diff --git a/DOCS/xml/en/install.xml b/DOCS/xml/en/install.xml
index 3e98141148..0d6e913dac 100644
--- a/DOCS/xml/en/install.xml
+++ b/DOCS/xml/en/install.xml
@@ -448,6 +448,18 @@ copy of it. Check if you have
 <application>MPlayer</application> versions, and remove it.
 </para>
 
+<para>
+Note that if you have a <filename>codecs.conf</filename> in
+<filename>~/.mplayer/</filename>,  the builtin and system
+<filename>codecs.conf</filename> will be ignored completely.
+Do not do this unless you want to fiddle with MPlayer internals as this can
+can cause many problems.  If you want to change the codecs search order, use
+the <option>-vc</option>, <option>-ac</option>, <option>-vfm</option>,
+or <option>-afm</option> options either on the command line or in your
+config file (see the manual page).
+</para>
+
+
 <para>
 Debian users can build a .deb package for themselves, it's very simple.
 Just exec
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