[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] Use unrar for open vobsubs if available

[Reimar Döffinger]

Hello,
On Sat, Nov 24, 2007 at 02:50:59PM +0800, Ulion wrote:
> We already discussed the libunrar patch, that was linked to mplayer so
> it's rejected.
> But we can safely use external decompress tool 'unrar' for this purpose.

Please before writing a patch search the archives carefully, there were
at least three different attempts in the past, we do not need another
flawed implementation of the same thing, we need a proper one.
And honestly a proper solution will most likely have to clean up the
_unspeakable utter and complete mess_ the current code is (the one using
unrarlib, well, actually unrarlib itself probably is a mess as well).
An additional point is that I am not at all too happy about spending
time improving support for a proprietary format, but not
reverse-engineering it but instead jumping through all kinds of hoops
while not supporting any of the opensource compression formats that
would work as well if not better.

Greetings,
Reimar Döffinger