Re: [xine-devel] Re: DVD MRL changes

[Michael R. <mr...@us...>]

Hi James,

> > I certainly appreciate you trying to improve these DVD MRLs, but I am not
> > sure this is a good solution, because
> > a) it breaks MRLs that worked before
> >    ("xine dvd:/path/to/image/" will not work any more)
> >    and I fear this will cost us a lot of explaining on xine-user
> > b) it is not conforming to the MRL grammar, because this clearly requires
> >    /dvd.img to be an absolute path in dvd:/dvd.img
> >
> > I would still favour the idea discussed here:
> > http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=7519844
> > It's just that noone took the time to implement that yet. I think leaving
> > out the "?title=2&part=4" for now would serve as a good interim solution.
> >
> > Sorry for my complaints.
>
> Having the last / or not has caught out so many people, that I think we
> have to go with the idea that the last / does not matter, so it works
> with or without it. That is what I am trying to do, and if you have
> found a case where it does not work, we should fix it.

I completely agree with that. Depending on this slash is braindead.

> I certainly do not like the dvd.img/2  (meaning title 2) method.
> It is too ambiguous.

But it is what fits best into the grammar and it is what we always had. 
Besides, the ':' does not make it any less ambiguous, since there might be an 
image file named "dvd.img:1.2" as well as a file "dvd.img/2". Either one 
would work in one solution and fail in the other.

Michael

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