[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: Small changes to subreader.c file

[Rich Felker]

On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 03:48:59PM +0200, Adam Tla??ka wrote:
> >On Sun, Oct 09, 2005 at 11:59:28AM +0200, Matthias Wieser wrote:
> >> > AFAIK windows players have no problem reading our files. It's only
> >> > broken hardware player (which are already broken in countless other
> >> > ways and not worth supporting) that choke.
> Sorry to say that but I have some DVD videos which play smoothly on the  
> hardware player
> and terribly choke under Linux. Neither MPlayer nor Xine can play them  
> correctly.
> What is interesting they play nicely under Windows.
> I think that we have some problems with continous transfer from DVD device
> in Linux so it have choppy playback on 1x or 2x playing speed.
> -cache option doesn't help and even makes it worse because drive stops
> and starts again which has terrible effect on playback.
> No problem with hardware player here.;-)

This is a bug in your dvdrom drive.

> >Because they only support very limited, crappy codecs
> You can flash them to a new versions.

If the vendor releases a new version... Have you seen any vendors
release ogm, mkv, vorbis, aac, h264, etc. support? How about nut once
it's done??

> >>and encourage idiots to reencode all their files to match
> >>these limitations.
> Because some gays produce output in noncompatible formats.

OK you lost absolutely all credibility with that statement.
Please leave this discussion immediately.

Rich