[MPlayer-dev-eng] Sad status of dvdread (overall)

[Nico Sabbi]

Diego Biurrun wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 10:47:33AM +0200, Nico Sabbi wrote:
> 
>>Some time ago someone proposed to update our dvdread to version 0.9.6,
>>that had some important bugfix and - according to my tests - didn't 
>>introduce
>>any slowdown; now the official dvdread is at version 0.9.7 but the update is
>>still pending/dead.
> 
> 
> Actually I had planned to tackle this soon...
> 
> 
>>I reported the problem to ogle-devel and to Bjorn (the main coder of 
>>dvdread), but
>>so far I haven't had any answer.
>>To make things worse the development of dvdread seems to be quite messy 
>>and closed
>>(I couldn't find a cvs repository, is there any? ) thus backtracking in 
>>revision history is a PITA.

it turned out that James Dutton added to his own dvdread import those 
getbits() function from the very start, without adding a notice in cvs

> 
> 
> Look at their development page to find out where the repository is:
> 
> http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/dvd/development.shtml
> 
> Diego
> 
> P.S.: Your mailer has horrible linebreaks.

I decided that tomorrow I will export dvdnav's version of dvdread
as standalone library (installed as shared/static that dvdnav will
link to), thus we could and should remove main/dvdread and
eventually import as external the new version.
I also noticed that due to some inclusion black magic mplayer includes
its own dvdread/*.h files instead of the system-wide headers even when
using --disable-dvdread-internal is specified, maybe because -I. comes 
before -I/usr/local/include or maybe not (I don't know), but the
result is that every kind of navigation feature is totally broken, so
an update of dvdread is more and more urgent