[MPlayer-dev-eng] unrarlib still broken on 64bit

[Diego Biurrun]

On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 06:56:26PM -0300, Peter Cordes wrote:
> 
>  unrarlib doesn't work on AMD64.  This thread on mplayer-dev solved the
> problem 2 years ago, but the fix isn't in current mplayer SVN.
> http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-dev-eng/2005-April/034149.html
> That thread also included a patch to use a standalone unrar executable, if
> available, enabling reading of modern rar files.  (I haven't tried it yet
> with current mplayer svn sources.)
> 
>  BTW, I noticed this because mplayer doesn't work with vobsubs in rar files
> on my 64bit machine, while the same subtitles still work on my x86 machine
> (both with current SVN mplayer).  My patch fixes rar vobsubs on my 64bit
> machine.
> 
>  It's a pain creating old rar files to be compatible with unrarlib, but
> I don't like wasting several MB on uncompressed subs.  (I know it's not
> much, but it bugs me.)

This has come up before and reminds me that I think this unrar feature
is not a good idea in the first place since modern versions of rar -
and the largest part of the files in the wild seem to be new version -
are unsupported anyway.

So what is this good for anyway?

Diego