[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] switch to general libdvdcss cache directory

Diego Biurrun diego at biurrun.de
Fri Oct 21 10:57:38 CEST 2005


On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 10:51:44AM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> 
> the attached patch reverts some of our changes to libdvdcss.  We store
> cached DVD keys in ~/.mplayer/DVDkeys/ while libdvdcss normally uses
> ~/.dvdcss/.  This used to be necessary because in the past libdvdcss did
> not support key caching.  This is not the case any longer and so I don't
> see a good reason to continue patching the lib and do things our own
> way.
> 
> The effect on users will be minimal, keys will have to be regenerated,
> but this happens only once on startup and you can always move the old
> directory to the new place.  Besides, keys can then be shared with other
> players like vlc and xine.

BTW, I intend to apply this next week if nobody objects, so if anybody
has some real complaints, speak up.

Diego




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