[vlc-devel] Re: VCD demux and input?

[Gildas Bazin]

On Friday 07 November 2003 13:27, R. Bernstein wrote:
> I have been looking yet again at how the VCD plugin can make some
> progress towards handling keyboard input and still frames with
> timeouts. If anyone has any ideas, please let me know.
> 
> Right now still frames are handled in the VCD plugin by having the
> read routine return null blocks when the end of the still is hit.  In
> the DVD code, the end of a still frame is handled by a DVD
> demuxer. However if I mimic code from that and not use the "ps"
> demuxer, I run into the fact that stream.p_selected_program and
> pp_programs[0] are not initialized.  It would look like I'd have to
> copy the code from demux/mpeg/ps.c's Activate() routine to initialize
> these two stream fields.. All this cut-and-paste code seems a bit
> ugly and prone to getting out of sync. Suggestions? 
> 

I'm not sure there is another way. Demuxers need to implement the code to 
input_AddProgram().

>
> Leaving aside this, there is also just adding some sort of keyboard input. 
> I have inside the main plugin file vcd.c this: 
> 
>     add_submodule();
>         set_capability( "interface", 0 );
>         set_callbacks( E_(VCDOpenIntf), E_(VCDCloseIntf) );
> 
> But I'm not sure how I can get VCDOpenIntf to get called. 
> 

Look in modules/access/dvdplay/demux.c line 108.
intf_Create( p_input, "dvdplay" ) takes care of starting the interface 
module.

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Gildas

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