[MPlayer-dev-eng] [RFC] removing dvdread internal?

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Friday, 23 November 2007 at 23:05, Roberto Togni wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Nov 2007 22:49:12 +0100
> Nico Sabbi <nicola_sabbi at fastwebnet.it> wrote:
> 
> > The internal copy of dvdread is broken as hell and one more burden
> > to handle, while the copy ov dvdread in the dvdnav repository is
> > working and cleaner.
> > I don't consider the double maintainance of such a high amount
> > of broken code a gain for anyone, thus I propose to remove the
> > internal copy and use the version in dvdnav (but not importing
> > it in main/ ! ) . Moreover, dvds that play _only_ with dvdnav are
> > increasingly popular, so we can't pretend that the old dvdread is
> > sufficient to play dvds and ignore dvdnav (read mplayer-users
> > if you don't believe me) .
> > 
> > Opinions?
> 
> Is it possible to use the external dvdread with the internal dvdcss?

What's the problem with external libdvdcss? It's not like it's difficult
to get binaries or compile it yourself.

Regards,
R.

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