[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: Fixing VideoCD playback in NetBSD

[Guillaume POIRIER]

Hi,

On 9/12/06, Sergey Svishchev <svs+mplayer at grep.ru> wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> Hash: SHA1
>
> On Sun, Sep 10, 2006 at 11:25:14PM +0200, mplayer-dev-eng-request at mplayerhq.hu wrote:
>
> >> NetBSD-specific code (stream/vcd_read_nbsd.h) has problems:
> >>
> >> a) Sector address conversion routines do not take into account
> >> 150-sector offset (MSF address 0:0.0 is LBA -150); thus, wrong locations
> >> on disc are read.  Usual failure mode: the disc will be played without
> >> video; surprisingly, some discs will still play correctly.
> >>
> >> b) The "error" field of struct scsireq is unused by NetBSD kernel and
> >> may contain random data.
> >>
> >> Please review these patches.  I've applied them to 1.0pre8 and verified
> >> that troublesome VCDs now play OK on my NetBSD/i386 3.0.1 machine.
> >
> >Could you check how SVN version of MPlayer behaves? Does it still need
> >this patch a all?
> >
> >Guillaume
>
> dev-SVN-r19813-3.3.3 still needs this patch.

Jan, could you please confirm or infirm this? You're the only known
person who uses mplayer on netbsd

Guillaume
-- 
With DADVSI (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DADVSI), France finally has
a lead on USA on selling out individuals right to corporations!
Vive la France!