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

[Reimar Döffinger]

Hello,
On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 10:20:26PM +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 09:20:22AM +0200, Attila Kinali wrote:
> > On Wed, 4 Jul 2007 17:28:24 +0200
> > Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> wrote:
> > 
> > > I'm aware of this.  The problem is that these subs are likely compressed
> > > with rar 3 and not rar 2 or similar.  In any case there are two
> > > incompatible rar versions and (our) unrarlib only supports the older
> > 
> > Those few rar'ed subs i have are rar2 compressed.
> > But i have to admit, that i don't mind uncompressing the subs
> > before watching. So IMHO the unrarlib feature isn't important
> > for me.
> 
> what about the obvious solution to just execute the decompressor and
> pipe the sub through it?
> we could trivially support rar3, lzma, bzip2, ppmd, paq, ... that way
> no need for having the decompressor in the mplayer binary ...

Before someone starts to implement this again: search the archives! It
should already be there IIRC.
Problem is, the stage before this probably should be cleaning up the
code that is a horrible mess currently, and is a non-trivial work.

Greetings,
Reimar Döffinger