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

[Alexander Roalter]

On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 10:49:12PM +0100, Nico Sabbi 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?

I'm not *that* sure that DVD which only play with dvdnav are increasing. 
It's only Sony DVDs which require dvdnav, all other manufacturers worked 
perfectly without (except for some other protection scheme, to be found 
on german Silent Hill DVD, which I didn't care for further investigation 
and got the UK instead...).

Since language selection via -alang and -slang works now well even with 
dvdnav (I had some issues with it some time ago), I could use dvdnav 
exclusively, though it's my feeling dvdread is somewhat faster on 
startup, i.e. from hitting the return key to seeing the first picture 
takes more time with dvdnav than with dvdread alone.

If only the content information would be printed out as they were some 
time ago... I mean channels with type and language, subtitles with 
language, number of angles and chapters. At the current moment, this 
info is not printed, and with at least three copies of DVDread source 
packages lying around I'm not sure where to begin :)



-- 
cheers,
Alex