[MPlayer-users] bzip2 for subtitles?

[antoine]

Hi,
I know that mplayer will play subs if all the files are in an rar 
archive... what about bzip2? Bzip gives better compression for the sub 
files I experimented on, and much better than the rar 2.* that seems to 
be compatible with mplayer. And isn't the rar algorithm still patented? 
Wouldn't it be easier and safer to have bzip2 compatibility? Wouldn't it 
be easier? The man mentions nothing about either, if there are 
instructions on using bzip2 somewhere I haven't been able to find then 
that would be great!
Cheers
Antoine

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