[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] unrarlib on AMD64

[Diego Biurrun]

On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 05:35:18PM +0200, Jindrich Makovicka wrote:
> Rich Felker wrote:
> > On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 04:37:32PM +0200, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> > 
> >>On Sunday, 17 April 2005 at 11:37, Jindrich Makovicka wrote:
> >>>
> >>>What about adding an (optional) support for rar executable, instead of
> >>>unrarlib? Recent rars cannot be read by unrarlib anyway.
> >>
> >>Because we strive not to require proprietary libs/tools. Though unrar
> >>source is available, the license is not GPL compatible. No rar3 support
> >>is planned in unrarlib, so we just have to live with it or write rar3
> >>decompression routines ourselves.
> > 
> > i propose the latter, and adding rar3 compression routines while we're
> > at it. :)
> 
> another option is to ditch rar support, import decompression routines
> from bzip2 and provide migration scripts :) bzip2 compresses vobsubs
> better anyway.

I know this is going to sound heretical, but how useful is this feature
anyway?  I have yet to come across rared subtitles and what speaks
against uncompressing them before movie playback?  Movies are also
unrared before watching...

Diego