RE: [xine-devel] including dvdnav Re: [xine-user] Can't show DVD's

[James Courtier-D. <Ja...@su...>]

The dvdnav plugin for xine will NOT be merged with xine.sf.net until Guenter
Bartsch [bar...@t-...] specifically asks me to do so. I do not see
that happening any time soon.

This does not mean that 3rd parties cannot merge the two together at another
site, but they do so at their own risk.

Cheers
James



> -----Original Message-----
> From: xin...@li...
> [mailto:xin...@li...]On Behalf Of Rich Wareham
> Sent: 14 October 2001 15:35
> To: Heiko Schaefer
> Cc: xin...@li...; dvd...@li...
> Subject: Re: [xine-devel] including dvdnav Re: [xine-user] Can't show
> DVD's
>
>
> On Sun, 14 Oct 2001, Heiko Schaefer wrote:
>
> > Hey everyone,
>
> Hi
>
> > On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, Guenter Bartsch wrote:
> >
> > > > I like the way DVDNAV says words to the effect of "we don't
> do CSS, but
> > > > if one of the libraries our software uses does, that's not our
> > > > problem".
>
> [ 8< ]
>
> > even though i am definitely no expert on this (who is, after
> all?!) legal
> > stuff, i would say that disclaimering and saying what xine's intentions
> > are - and that we are aware of legal trouble and intend to do the 'right
> > thing (tm)' in a legal sense should hopefully go a long way.
>
> Hopefully. Wih regards merging dvdnav into the Xine CVS, I wouldn't mind
> as long as everyone is 100% OK about it. By everyone I mean the dvdnav
> developers as well as the Xine people.
>
> > > On the other hand, that lib doesn't have our dvd read cache
> (yet?) so it'd
> > > be a performance downgrade, at least on freebsd to switch to
> that plugin.
> >
> > yep, i can see a huge difference in performance with libdvdread
> on freebsd
> > :) hopefully this can be sorted out soon...
>
> Your wish is my command :) -- I just committed support for read-ahead
> caching to CVS which works on my box. Its a pretty major change however so
> some intensive testing from people would be appreciated.
>
> > > Mayby including the dvdnav plugin in xine could become a
> valid option for
> > > our upcoming 1.0.0 release - let's see and hear your opinions.
>
> I think there should be /some/ resolution in 1.0.0 of the CSS thing. As to
> what it is, I don't know. If people don't want dvdnav in the main Xine
> tree, I would make the CSS warning in the default plugin /very/ visible
> (perhaps having a xine_report_fatal_message() API function that does
> something in the GUI?).
>
> > well, after giving this some thought, i would say that it
> probably makes a
> > lot of sense to take the dvdnav plugin into the main xine tree (assuming
> > of course that the dvdnav team - most notably rich and james as far as i
> > understand it - are interested in such a solution).
>
> See above. However I think that maybe having a non-CSS enabled libdvdread
> knocking around so that the arse-covering disclaimer actually has some
> basis would be useful.
>
> Rich
>
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>
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