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Originally Posted by Thomas_AR
@LoRd_MuldeR:
First great Job. Switched yesterday from MPC/FFDshow to Mplayer/MPUI.
Just one question. Is there a special reason that your Setup provides each single codec, and not a all in one solution (mplayer.exe has all codecs inside) like the package you can download on MPUI homepage?
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MPlayer has
most codecs built-in. But there are still some proprietary formats for which there's no (working) OpenSource decoder available. So if there's no OpenSource decoder available for those formats, they cannot incude it in MPlayer.exe. All they can do is use the binaries (DLLs) provided by the manufacturer for decoding. Those files are located in the "codecs" directory and MPlayer loads them when needed. Of course MPlayer works 100% fine without those Codecs, but some files won't play then (like nasty WMV9 and stuff). The package from MPUI homepage does not include any additional Codecs, but I inlcuded the latest "full codec package" form MPlayerHQ.
More info is here:
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/codecs-status.html