[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH][RFC] transparent unpacking of .rar for transparent vobsub access

[D Richard Felker III]

On Sat, Jun 08, 2002 at 02:18:55AM +0200, Felix Buenemann wrote:
> On Friday 07 June 2002 10:00, pl wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > The attached patch allows reading vobsub "directly" from .rar.
> >
> > Why?
> > The win dll allows this so vobsub .sub often ship as .rar.
> >
> >
> > It uses the 'rar' binary you've installed on your system to unpack the
> > foo.sub of the foo.rar in /tmp, then opens /tmp/foo.sub and unlinks
> > /tmp/foo.sub.
> I already thought about the same, but didn't have the time yet to do it.
> 
> However you should use unrarlib for this purpose, it allows extration to disc 
> and memory (mem is preferred in this case). Unrarlib itself is free and I 
> even have an agreement with their developers to use it under the GPL inside 
> mplayer.

There's no such thing. If they allow it to be used inside MPlayer
under GPL, then it can be used in any program under GPL. Otherwise
MPlayer isn't really GPL. Make sense?

Of course if their developers don't realize this, maybe it's a good
way to get Unrarlib under GPL... :)

Rich