[MPlayer-advusers] dvdnav - mpdvdkit2 - libdvdcss regression

[Diego Biurrun]

On Sat, Dec 23, 2006 at 11:10:29PM +0100, Nico Sabbi wrote:
> Diego Biurrun wrote:
> 
> >On Sat, Dec 23, 2006 at 06:26:58PM +0100, Nico Sabbi wrote:
> > 
> >>here's the patch. As described it compiles dvdcss as a shared library
> >>and installs it in $PREFIX/lib if configure time it can't dlopen() any 
> >>other
> >>shared libdvdcss.so.2.
> >>I can't imagine a more general way to make this patch
> >
> >I'm strongly opposed to this.  We have no business installing a shared
> >libdvdcss. 
> >
> no more and no less than installing a series of shared vidix drivers

That's different.  We don't install shared libdvdread, mp3lib, libmpeg2,
etc ..

> >If it is needed then the user can install one.  We don't
> >install shared versions of any other forked libs.
> >
> >The problem seems to be that it is needed by the experimental dvdnav
> >support.  Let's make dvdnav support disabled by default then until the
> >remaining issues are resolved.
> >
> that translates immediately to "let's stop playing more and more common 
> dvds",
> exactly the opposite of the main purpose of mplayer

No.  It just translates to "Install libdvdcss if you want to play around
with the experimental libdvdnav support.".  That's hardly an absurd
requirement.

Diego