[MPlayer-dev-eng] thoughts on cdparanoia

[D Richard Felker III]

Hey, I saw that Alban just added support for playing audio CDs through
the cdparanoia library. IMHO, it would be very cool to make this
stream source so it can play back other file types (as opposed to just
raw audio) stored as cdda tracks. Then it would be possible to store
an playback large mpeg4 movies this way with mplayer. Of course
there's no graceful error handling this way, and it can already be
done with cdparanoia|mplayer, but by using the paranoia library
internally, it should be possible to seek, use an avi index, etc. It
looks like much of the necessary stuff (e.g. seeking) is already in
place, so it would probably just be a matter of gluing stuff together
with the muxer and stream layers. Might also need a little resyncing
code for precise byte address seeks if paranoia can't do perfect seeks
already... Anyone up to the task?

Rich