[vlc-devel] RE : RE : [LONG] Some thoughts and questions about vout

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Le jeudi 13 novembre 2008 22:40:49 brezhoneg1, vous avez écrit :
> ------ if we need to distinguish origin (playlist, VLM or libvlc API),
> this should not be a problem.

I am not saying this is a fundamental problem. But this is a problem with your 
proposed API.

>     Through genealogy of calling object (p_obj->p_parent->p_parent...
> till Null), we know how to differentiate them. So we can keep this
> information in the recycling structure, and reattribute objects to their
> original family.

I would really rather we forget about the object genealogy thing. As far as I 
can tell, it is meant for configuration inheritance (and debug). Children 
should really _never_ need to know about their parents. I much prefer the way 
it's done with sout already now - the parent can just take its 
grand(^n)children out of the input if it wants to keep it.

I am pretty sure Pierre d'H. will make the same point. And Laurent's not 
unlikely to either. If the authority argument is not enough:

Looking for parent objects always often triggers weird problem when extending 
and changing things in unpexted ways, and sometimes causes deadlocks. 
Try --sout-keep --sout '#display' and see for yourself. In the same vain, I 
wonder how many ways we can screw things up today with slave inputs with all 
those vlc_object_find(INPUT, PARENT) all over.

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