[vlc-devel] [PATCH] Open Sound Control support using liblo

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Le lundi 13 avril 2009, Nicholas J Humfrey a écrit :
> > Is 100 some kind of timeout value? If so, why can you not use an
> > infinite (or really long timeout)?
>
> Ugh, sadly there still needs to be some polling. With OSC you able to
> send a message and then schedule it to be acted on at a specified
> time. The polling is required incase an event gets added while you
> are waiting. But perhaps this is a bug in liblo that needs sorting
> out.
>
> How long is really long?

Currently, that's anything from 30 seconds because the screensaver 
preemption requires a 30 seconds interval timer. In principle, it is 
infinite.

> > Convincing the release manager (not me!) that this can violate the
> > feature freeze, or wait for the VLC 1.1 defrost.
>
> Would be great if it made it into 1.0 - it isn't a big changeset and
> isn't enabled by default. But understandable if it doesn't.

To make things clear, it will NOT be enabled by default so long as it's 
polling.

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