[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] Use external libs to handle rar subtitles

[Zuxy]

2005/10/25, Ivan Kalvachev <ikalvachev at gmail.com>:
> 2005/10/24, Zuxy <zuxy.meng at gmail.com>:
>
> Patch rejected.
>
> You should not remove the current build-in GPL  support for rar, as
> user may not have the propriately unrar3 lib.
> So you need to let configure check for unrar3 lib. Then make mplayer
> use build-in _or_ unrar3.

Users have libunrar.so or they can hardly decompress anything, as most
rar archives today are v3.

Though not GPL'ed, libunrar.so is an open-source freeware. I see no
harm in providing a link to it in our webpage or maintain it as an
optional component, just like binary codecs.

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