[vlc-devel] Re: How to set playlist item name and author?

[Sigmund Augdal]

Here is an idea for a fast and clean solution to most of these complaints:
In the cddax Open() function first do cddb stuff, then add a new playlist
item for each track with the newly gathered info. This way ACTIONID_PREV and
ACTIONID_NEXT will work as well, and you can remove all the hotkey handling
code from the cddax plugin.

On a longer run we should fix so that hotkeys.c handles chapters and titles
properly in ACTIONID_PREV and ACTIONID_NEXT. As well as adding wrapper
functions to change elements of the playlist.

Sigmund

On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 11:43:55PM -0500, R. Bernstein wrote:
> Gildas Bazin writes:
>  > Apparently there is no clean way of modifying a playlist item once it has 
>  > been added with playlist_Add*(). 
> 
> Sigh. The code vlc has it is for the most part cleaner than other
> media players. But, alas, often there isn't much. (I'm feeling
> depressed at having just added ugly cut-and-paste code for keyboard
> input to the CD-DA plugin and not having even started dealing how to
> deal with changing in and out of still frames with different aspect
> ratios in the VCD plugin).
> 
> >  Were you thinking about cddb support ?
> 
> It would be pretty easy to do if there were an interface for doing
> it. If you add an interface for modifying a playlist item, I'll add
> cddb support to the CDDX plugin. It doesn't seem that hard to add an
> interface for modifying the current playlist item if you want me to do
> so.
> 
> But VCD's also have titles, the author of the VCD (although it's
> usually the program that created the VCD), and meta-information. So
> again it changing/adding the current playlist name/author would be
> used here.
> 
> But... truth be told, I'm not even clear as to how the contents of a
> CD-DA or VCD should be presented. If one specifies say vcd:// or
> cdda:// you see only *one* playlist item. The thing that is currently
> getting played (the name of a CD track or and Entry/LID/Segment of a
> VCD) is not shown. 
> 
> I have a feeling that for a CD-DA the proper thing to do when given a
> "play-it-all" MRL like cdda:// would be to delete the entry that's
> there and then add all of the individual tracks with proper
> information. Not sure though.
> 
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