[MPlayer-dev-eng] Utilize libunrar.so/unrar.dll?

[Rich Felker]

On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 10:01:58PM +0300, ?smail Dönmez wrote:
> On Friday 21 October 2005 22:04, Rich Felker wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 10:18:26PM +0200, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 07:15:29PM +0200, Luca Barbato wrote:
> > > > Reimar ??? wrote:
> > > > >I don't really like using non-GPL code. Maybe somebody could
> > > > >investigate if the code from 7zip (http://7-zip.org) can be
> > > > >used for this?
> > > >
> > > > http://p7zip.sourceforge.net/ you mean?
> > >
> > > I do not know if that one supports rar.
> > >
> > > > adding 7z support in itself could be useful btw.
> > >
> > > Yes, for rar support there is no point in looking in 7zip I found, it
> > > uses the unrar sources, and I'm quite certain the license isn't
> > > GPL-compatible.
> >
> > I'm against including unrar support at all unless it can be done with
> > free code. Keeping your subtitles rar'd is stupid anyway. Just store
> > them in a proper format and the problem goes away.
> 
> Loading libunrar.so is very much like our dll support. So I don't think its 
> any different then supporting win32 dlls.

I'm against supporting win32 dlls too, but especially against this
'feature' which (unlike win32 codec support) is totally useless. If
people want to play these subs they can just use the external unrar
binary first.

unrar3 has source anyway, so if you insist on having rar3 support in
MPlayer, read the source and then write an independent implementation
of the decompresser under some free license..

Rich

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