Re: Newbie saying hello.

Wed Nov 13 2002, Bryn Reeves wrote:
> Hi all, just wanted to introduce myself to the list. 
> I'm a recent graduate who's teaching myself a bit of C (they taught us
> java - bah!) and working on a project involving libdvdread. 
> 
Hi, sorry for taking so long to answer.

> First up, thanks! The project I have to do is very DVD based and the
> library is going to save me massive amounts of effort.
> 
Great.  Do let us know what becomes of this.. Would be good to know
what people use it for and what theire requierments are.  We could 
put up a link on the web if you like...

> Now, I'm a bit of a C newbie, so please be gentle if this is a stoopid
> question but I've just spent ages trapping a bug in one of my test
> programs. Problem was I was accidentally passing a null pointer as the
> data argument to DVDReadBlocks() (I said I was a newbie!). My question
> then is would it incur an excessive performance hit for playback
> purposes to do a not null check on the data argument to the
> DVDReadXXXX() functions?
> 
No, not to worry should be practicaly free.. wonder why I hadn't
done this already.

> If not, this is something I'd be happy to implement, it being something
> I could probably just about cope with ;) and a way of contributing
> something to a really great project.
> 
I commited a few lines to cvs just now,  hope that will be enough.

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Håkan Hjort