[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] switch to general libdvdcss cache directory

[Rich Felker]

On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 10:24:30AM +0400, Vladimir Mosgalin wrote:
> Hi Rich Felker!
> 
>  On 2005.10.20 at 18:27:54 -0400, Rich Felker wrote next:
> 
> > > Oh really? Have you ever heard of vidix? It doesn't require root privs
> > > only on windows - because dhahelper doesn't work anywhere else. One may
> > > use sudo instead of suid, but it won't solve the described problem.
> > 
> > use svgalib_helper.
> 
> The svgalib_helper 1.9.17 modified for mplayer (dated Feb 3 2003)
> doesn't compile anymore. The one from current svgalib does, but after I
> compile and load it nothing changes. Perhaps I need to build the rest of
> svgalib (there seem to be some problems with it) and rebuild mplayer -
> but are you sure it will help me with xvidix? I don't need cvidix, or
> svga:vidix, or other stuff that doesn't work good enough in X session.

There's a bug in the vidix/libdha stuff that makes it try to do direct
hardware io even if svgalib_helper is available. I fixed this in my
local copy, but only by killing the support for direct io which is
obviously going to piss off some lusers if I commit it...

Rich