[Mplayer-dev-eng] Version number

Gábor Lénárt lgb at lgb.hu
Tue Jun 5 11:52:41 CEST 2001


On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 11:44:28AM +0200, Arpi wrote:
> > Who started calling this "cdrom mode"? This is very ugly name ;-)
> > However your windoze media player is stupid :) It plays disks in "file mode"
> > but it figure out from ifo files and like which file should be played, from
> > which sector pos and so on. This "full disk movie mode" (it's a better name 
> > I think) requires implement DVD streaming type, ifo parsing, and some minor
> > changes as well inside mplayer. But basically the same thing happens for
> > both of "file" and "cdrom" mode inside a player. At least in mplayer and
> in file mode the player uses read() to read VOB files, while in cdrom mode
> it uses ioctl() to read RAW sectors of disk.

Hmmm, probably I'm not refeering for xine but OMS or other but I've seen
mapping of VOB files according to information got from ifo files ...
Maybe I'm wrong and I'm confusing something especially after a night
without any seelp :(

> > German's patch (which enabled "cdrom" mode playing, but his patch is very
> > outdated and buggy and not even counting the fact that I don't understand
> > some stuffs inside out - for example the double usage of descrambling).
> He hacked some code of xine to work in mplayer. I think it has some
> redundant and unused parts too, like descrambling.
> The .ifo stuff should be rewritten from scratch. mplayer internals
> differ a LOT from xine! and this way we avoid licensing problems too.
> 
> I think that .ifo file can't be so hard to parse. that DVD players uses
> simple cheap processors with limited instruction set and low clock freq.


Errr, OK have a look at the patch ;-) It's horrible to parse ifo files :((

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