[DVDnav-discuss] [PATCH] Initialize dvd_reader_t struct in DVDOpenImageFile

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Tuesday, 18 February 2014 at 20:18, Jean-Baptiste Kempf wrote:
> On 18 Feb, Richard Hulme wrote :
> > On 18/02/14 16:42, Jean-Baptiste Kempf wrote:
> > >Le 26/01/2014 17:13, Richard Hulme a écrit :
> > >>The patch is part of a bigger MythTV-specific change by Chris Pinkham:
> > >>
> > >>https://github.com/MythTV/mythtv/commit/3af3489
> > >
> > >Any way of getting part of this upstream?
> > >
> > 
> > Which bit in particular?  That particular patch primarily adds support for
> > using MythTV's remote file-handling.  The one generic bit was the patch I
> > originally attached to the first email of this thread (the call to memset).
> 
> With more and more things on the "cloud", it would make sense to have a
> way to pass a pointer to a open() and read() function to dvdread,
> instead of using the filesystem ones, so that people could host their
> isos over http.

I remember a patch that added transparent rar decompression support, but
it was never accepted. Maybe it's time to revisit that in a more general
way.

I'll bump some old threads with unreviewed/unmerged patches in the next
few days, so that you or someone else can look at them with a fresh set
of eyes.

Regards,
Dominik

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