[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: MPlayer compliling bug on Mac OS X usinglibdvdnav

[Nico Sabbi]

sci-fi at hush.ai wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> On 2006-10-18 22:28:58 -0500, Ergzay <ergzay at gmail.com> said:
>
>>
>> Sorry to reply to my own message but I sent this about two weeks ago 
>> and I have gotten no response for this and I would really like to use 
>> libdvdnav.
>>
>> Ergzay
>

you are right: I forgot it

>
> I have the various libdvd* projects built and installed manually, from 
> CVS/SVN if available for each project.  Your problem occurs on my G4 
> machine as well as my G5 Dual 2.7.
>
> The problem seems to be that libdvdread is installed, which mplayer's 
> configure script does detect, but mplayer/stream/stream_dvd.c does not 
> build any code to define UDFFindFile for Darwin/OSX.  The o.s. itself 
> doesn't supply this function.
>
> What we must do on Darwin/OSX, then, is tell configure to 
> --disable-dvdread but also --enable-mpdvdkit, and it should go ahead 
> to use the installed libdvdnav in conjunction with the mpdvdkit2 set 
> of features.


no, mpdvdkit is incompatible with dvdnav. Rather the external

>
>
> The code in mplayer/stream/stream_dvd.c probably needs to be updated 
> to use the OSX frameworks methods of talking to the correct 
> /dev/[r]disk, IIUC as mpdvdkit2 presently does.


leave alone stream_dvd.c: in this case it's not involved

> That is something I thought Apple had promised to do: make OSX look & 
> act more like BSD/Linux in these regards, so porting would be much 
> easier.  But DVD is a special area that Apple must obey the 
> "corporations" as far as protecting commercially produced media etc., 
> so if anything this area will need ever more hackery in open source 
> projects.  :(
>
>

irrelevant