[MPlayer-dev-eng] Utilize libunrar.so/unrar.dll?

[Zuxy]

2005/10/22, Rich Felker <dalias at aerifal.cx>:
> I'm against supporting win32 dlls too, but especially against this
> 'feature' which (unlike win32 codec support) is totally useless. If
> people want to play these subs they can just use the external unrar
> binary first.

Firstly, whether it's useless to all or not doesn't come from your
imagination. Most DVDRips are tuned to have a size that just fits into
a 700MB CD-R, and if you don't rar the subs you have to overburn a
lot.

Lastly, why don't you go further by telling people not to use real,
quick time, or any formats that can't be decoded without a win32 dll?
Are we talking about purifying the mplayer or enhancing its
capabilities?

> unrar3 has source anyway, so if you insist on having rar3 support in
> MPlayer, read the source and then write an independent implementation
> of the decompresser under some free license..

That's absolutely not my job. If you prefer the old, out dated,
virtually useless UniquE RAR you just keep it in the next release, and
tell rippers to use rar 2.0 only, if you can.

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