[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: [PATCH] Use libunrar when available (2nd try)

[Zuxy Meng]

2006/6/23, Rich Felker <dalias at aerifal.cx>:
> On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 12:07:34AM +0800, Zuxy Meng wrote:
> > 2006/6/22, Rich Felker <dalias at aerifal.cx>:
> > >I agree that it violates the GPL regardless of whather you use dlopen
> > >or -lunrar... Why do people keep insisting on this useless rar support
> > >anyway?
> >
> > You may ask the guy who firstly import libunique rather than
> > libz/libbz2 into mplayer, truth is that RARed vobsubs are common, so
> > far as I know.
> >
> > BTW I don't like RAR either, as I don't like rm format, but others
> > like them and use them to encode movies so I don't regard supporting
> > them as useless.
>
> The difference is that it's easy to unrar your vobsubs with an
> external program before playing the movie. It's not easy to convert
> your .rm files... As long as rar is nonfree and no one makes a free
> decompressor, I see no reason for us to make it excessively easy to
> play rar vobsubs in-place, especially when it requires infringing the
> GPL on certain code we've imported even more than we're already doing.
> If you really want rar support, why not write us a small, clean, free
> rar extractor library?
>

Well, I tried to add v3 support to libuniqe, but found rarv3 is far
more complex than rarv2, and I consider transcoding from C++ to C a
waste of time.

libunrar isn't that bad. Its license is very permissive. Clamav used
to use libunique, now they turned to libunrar.so.

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