[MPlayer-dev-eng] unrarlib still broken on 64bit

[Diego Biurrun]

On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 11:21:45PM +0200, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 10:20:26PM +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 09:20:22AM +0200, Attila Kinali wrote:
> > > On Wed, 4 Jul 2007 17:28:24 +0200
> > > Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > I'm aware of this.  The problem is that these subs are likely compressed
> > > > with rar 3 and not rar 2 or similar.  In any case there are two
> > > > incompatible rar versions and (our) unrarlib only supports the older
> > > 
> > > Those few rar'ed subs i have are rar2 compressed.
> > > But i have to admit, that i don't mind uncompressing the subs
> > > before watching. So IMHO the unrarlib feature isn't important
> > > for me.
> > 
> > what about the obvious solution to just execute the decompressor and
> > pipe the sub through it?
> > we could trivially support rar3, lzma, bzip2, ppmd, paq, ... that way
> > no need for having the decompressor in the mplayer binary ...
> 
> Before someone starts to implement this again: search the archives! It
> should already be there IIRC.

So where is it?

> Problem is, the stage before this probably should be cleaning up the
> code that is a horrible mess currently, and is a non-trivial work.

Any volunteers? :)

Diego