[MPlayer-users] Re: Re: Re: status of dvd:// and -dvd

[D Richard Felker III]

On Sun, May 04, 2003 at 10:34:01AM +0100, Chris Phillips wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> so this basically means that 0.90 and anything newer are actually 
> incompatible syntax wise? surely -dvd should have been left a little 
> longer....?

No, there's no reason and it was a huge ugly mess/hack in the code.
When you run mplayer, it tells you -dvd no longer exists and to use
dvd:// instead, so why is it an issue?

BTW, like I said, it *was* left for a long time; now it was finally
removed.

Rich