[MPlayer-users] Re: [MPlayer-dev-eng] [FYI] new versions of libdvdread 0.9.3 and libdvdcss 1.2

[Arpi]

Hi,

> b) A library shipped with mplayer has to be maintained which costs time. Or 
> is
> anybody willing to do that? (Hmmm.... thinking about wheter I am... but lets
>  first
> hear what the rest of the community says)

but it also saves lots of time answering at -users to the repeated problems
with incompatibility of libdvdcss and libdvdread versions and bugs...

libmpdvdkit ha sthe correct versions, patched to cached keys and patched to
avoid the well-known bad assert()

> c) If you ship it with mplayer and compile and link it statically it takes m
> ore 
> bandwith to download, more space to compile and to run it. I have tons of Ra
> m and
but it's faster, much faster. and hte user have to download libdvdread and
libdvdcss anyway, it only saves him some bw if he's using mor ethan one
movie player sharing those libs. and, also note that both libdvdcss and
libdvdread uses that autoconf shit, having 200k+ of useless files in the
standard packages, while we removed them at all, using mplayer's configure
instead. for mplayer-only users it saves bw instead of having them to
download more. imho...

> Anyways if you drop libdvdread, I ask you to include a --dvd-device like opt
> ion....
have you ever rtfm? there IS such option


A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team

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