[vlc-devel] [RFC] input & metadata

[Rafaël Carré]

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Laurent Aimar a écrit :
>  I thing we could further simplify the handling of meta data.
> 
>  I will add a DEMUX_HAS_UNSUPPORTED_META (demux2_Control) that will
> return TRUE if a demuxer know that the file can have meta data but
> does not support it.
>  Then the input will take care of calling a meta-reader plugin.
>  That will remove a lot of duplicate code. (Of course it will also support
> attachment read from the meta-reader).
>  If you do not see any problem, I will commit the changes tomorrow.
> 

That sounds better indeed.

Maybe DEMUX_HAS_NO_META is a better name ?

I don't know if there is cases where "meta reader" can read more meta
data than demuxer, while the demuxer has already extracted some meta
data already.

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Rafaël Carré
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