[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: [PATCH] Use stream to read text subs

[Rich Felker]

On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 05:36:24PM +0100, Alban Bedel wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 17:15:49 +0100
> Tomas Janousek <tomi at nomi.cz> wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > Alban Bedel napsal(a):
> > > Any comments, suggestions ? Some small testing would also be welcome
> > > :)
> > 
> > It breaks compilation with LIVE555 libs. Patch attached.
> 
> Huh ? That doesn't seems needed to me, memchr() return void*. Or is
> LIVE555 overridding the definiton of memchr ? The patch is ok, but i
> really like to know why it is needed at all.

It's because MPlayer *still* (ARRRGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!) has crappy C++ code
for live555 which includes these headers, and C++ is idiotic about how
it handles void *. When will nemesi support be finished so we can
remove that legacy junk??

Rich