[MPlayer-users] pre-existing libdvdread

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Wednesday, 05 November 2008 at 17:02, Christian Ebert wrote:
> * Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski on Tuesday, November 04, 2008 at 11:18:50 +0100
> > On Tuesday, 04 November 2008 at 03:34, nettxzl wrote:
> >> 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.
> 
> Some programs (vobcopy) expect the headers to be in
> */include/dvdnav; I worked around this by doing a
> "ln -s libdvdnav dvdnav".

libdvdnav's headers ARE in /usr/include/dvdnav. There was a time between 4.1.2
and 4.1.3 when this was /usr/include/libdvdnav, but the change was reverted
before 4.1.3 was released.

Regards,
R.

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