[MPlayer-users] pre-existing libdvdread

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Tuesday, 04 November 2008 at 03:34, nettxzl wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> There's another libdvdread library which can be found at
> 
> http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/dvd/dist/
> 
> (It's used in BLFS, Beyond Linux From Scratch)
> 
> At first I wasn't sure if it was an earlier version of your
> libdvdread-4.1.3. But after looking at your Changelog I think they must be
> independent programs.

They are not. Ours is a fork of the version that was included in libdvdnav
tree (libdvdread-0.9.4) with many improvements since.

> Do you think it might be better to change the name of
> your libdvdread to something else? Since there is a pre-existing library
> with the same name it could lead to confusion.

Not really. They are API-compatible.

If you'd like to talk about our libdvdread fork, feel free to subscribe
to https://lists.mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/dvdnav-discuss and post
your questions there.

Regards,
R.

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