Re: MPlayer reloaded

[Andreas Metzler <ametzler@logic.univie.ac.at>]

Nathanael Nerode <neroden@twcny.rr.com> wrote:
> Diego Biurrun wrote:
[...] 
>> No, seriously, the tarball supports being compiled into a .deb package
>> and supports many features (css, etc) that will most probably not make
>> it into Debian, even if MPlayer should.
> 
> * Is it possible to arrange for dynamic runtime use of the libdvdcss2
> library if, and only if, it's available?  This is what most Debian move
> players do.
[...]

Iirc, yes. mplayer can link against the usual libdvdnav which will
dlopen libdvdcss2. By default it statically links against the copies of
these libraries shipped with mplayer's sourcecode.
              cu andreas