[vdr] Re: New VideoCD Patch

[Thomas Heiligenmann <thomas@heiligenmann.de>]

Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
> 
> Johannes Feigl wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 10:10:24PM +0100, Thomas Heiligenmann wrote:
> > > *This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(tm) Pro*
> > >
> > > The updated patch (VDR ver. 0.98) to replay VCDs/SVCDs can be found at:
> > >
> > >     http://www.heiligenmann.de/download/vdr-0.98-vcd2.diff
> >
> > why not vdr 0.99pre1 ?
> >
> > if klaus should include it in the vdr-package this would be usefull for
> > him ;-)
> >

If it helps - why not? I just haven't installed vdr-0.99pre1 yet ;-)

>
> I know there are quite a few pwople who are eagerly awaiting all the various
> player patches to be integrated into VDR. But this is not going to happen
> before VDR version 1.00, and after that I am planning to implement a generic
> player interface that allows a new player to be implemented as a library
> object that can be dynamically called at runtime, so there will be no more
> need for patching the VDR source. New players can then be implemented completely
> separately, and VDR just has to be instructed (at startup or through a config
> file, haven't decided yet) which players to include. Ok, so far for the theory - I can't
> guarantee that this will work, but I'll try to make it so...
> 

Definitely the best way to go!


Thomas