[MPlayer-users] pre-existing libdvdread

[nettxzl]

On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 6:18 PM, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski <
dominik at rangers.eu.org> wrote:

> On Tuesday, 04 November 2008 at 03:34, nettxzl wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > There's another libdvdread library which can be found at
> >
> > http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/dvd/dist/
> >
> > (It's used in BLFS, Beyond Linux From Scratch)
> >
> > At first I wasn't sure if it was an earlier version of your
> > libdvdread-4.1.3. But after looking at your Changelog I think they must
> be
> > independent programs.
>
> They are not. Ours is a fork of the version that was included in libdvdnav
> tree (libdvdread-0.9.4) with many improvements since.


>
> > Do you think it might be better to change the name of
> > your libdvdread to something else? Since there is a pre-existing library
> > with the same name it could lead to confusion.
>
> Not really. They are API-compatible.


Ok, thanks for clarifying all this.


>
>
> If you'd like to talk about our libdvdread fork, feel free to subscribe
> to https://lists.mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/dvdnav-discuss and post
> your questions there.
>

Ok, thanks, I didn't know there was a separate mailing list for dvdnav.

Toni