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

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

On Thu, 13 Nov 2008 22:29:59 +0100, "brezhoneg1" <brezhoneg1 at yahoo.fr>
wrote:
> - vlc_object_find( .., .., FIND_PARENT)) is usually clean and
> predictable (albeit maybe input-slave, not so sure). The good point is
> that pointer to an object can easily be retrieved without passing too
> many parameters to functions.

No, it's not. I have been fighting with vlc_object_find problems for three
years. I know what I'm talking about. Full point.

> - vlc_object_find( .., .., FIND_CHILD))may be more of a problem (for
> example, an input can have several vout (vout for display, vout for
> audio-visual, vout inside a sout chain, even multiple vout for some
> video-effects). There is no easy way to know which one it is.  (e.g OSD
> issue !)

Exact same problem as FIND_PARENT. Although usually not as badly abused.

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Rémi Denis-Courmont