[MPlayer-dev-eng] [patch] improved searching for subtitles

[Jindrich Makovicka]

D Richard Felker III wrote:

>IMO this patch is dumb. Consider the case where you have a directory
>with hundreds or thousands of files in it on slow media. Reading
>through the whole thing to find a matching filename could be a major
>pain.
>
Having a directory with thousands of filenames, (at least) I usually 
have to retrieve a directory listing first to find out what file to play 
at all so it's very likely that the filenames will be already in the 
cache anyway.

>A much nicer fix would be to rename the subtitle files not to
>have extra junk in their names.
>
No doubt about it. But I still find this patch useful.

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Jindrich Makovicka