[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] Win32 GUI Open Disk (CD/DVD)

[Ingo Brückl]

Stephen Sheldon wrote on Thu, 29 Dec 2011 10:53:29 -0800:

> On 12/29/2011 7:11 AM, Ingo Brückl wrote:
>> After giving some thoughts to the recent open disk patches, I think that
>> there is an overall better approach for both Windows and Wine.
>>
>> First of all we should remove cdrom_device and dvd_device as options from
>> Win32 GUI (cfg.patch), because the GUI determines these devices in a
>> different way (and may handle even multiple of them). So far, it didn't use
>> them at all, but only overwrote them.

> I have something called "Virtual CloneDrive" installed on my PC that allows
> mapping a disk image file to a drive letter. So I have drives D (the real
> one) and G (a disk image file). Now I can select either one in the "Open
> Disc" menu and gmplayer plays the right one. Before it only played the the
> one I had specified in my config file.

This is how the Win32 GUI is supposed to work. It should check all "CDROM"
devices known to Windows. So the cfg + dvd patches seem to be ok.

Ingo