[vlc-devel] Getting proper network url for bindings...

[Tony Anecito]

Thanks Pierre. I will try that. So does this mean it will take the url the user types in and convert to the url needed by the mediaplaytlist?

Thanks,
-Tony

--- On Tue, 11/3/09, Pierre d'Herbemont <pdherbemont at free.fr> wrote:

> From: Pierre d'Herbemont <pdherbemont at free.fr>
> Subject: Re: [vlc-devel] Getting proper network url for bindings...
> To: "Mailing list for VLC media player developers" <vlc-devel at videolan.org>
> Date: Tuesday, November 3, 2009, 1:50 PM
> Hi Tony,
> 
> the backend is seeing a youtube video as a playlist file,
> that
> contains a subfile.
> 
> If you want to read a playlist file you should use a
> MediaListPlayer.
> 
> Pierre.
> 
> On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 8:03 PM, Tony Anecito <adanecito at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > In order to get wider response I am resending this as
> a generic issue for bindings in hope someone else in python
> or a different binding might have an answer.
> >
> > For JVLC and I suspect all the other bindings they may
> have issues using calls to view videos via http because
> their mediadescriptor objects or something similar to that
> are trying to use the url for http that a user would enter
> instead of the one that was the url preprocessed to get the
> url that will work. I discovered a while ago this was true
> for JVLC and just recently as described below for JVLC.
> >
> > I was able to verify that I can get JVLC to play the
> youtube videos by taking the location (VLC GUI label) url in
> the media information dialog and inputting that for the
> mediaplayer mediadescriptor object creation. I had to do
> this same operation for the mov files that are played via
> http. This url is what works with mediaplayer object and not
> the one the user of the vlc gui pastes into the open media
> network tab address textbox when wanting to open a network
> stream.
> >
> > That said and hopefully understood the wider scope
> question for all bindings for vlc is now what function
> should be called against the vlc code that would take the
> youtube url and return the location url that works with the
> mediadescriptor object? For youtube the exact url that the
> location textbox displays changes dynamically over time. It
> is as if the standard youtube url points to another url that
> dynamically changes over time kind of like a DNS entry
> points to a server ip that can change but the DNS entry
> abstracts that away so the user does not need to know a
> server IP. This means for usability all bindings needs to
> call a vlc function that prepossesses the url of the youtube
> url to obtain the current url that works with the media
> object.
> >
> > Hopefully the other bindings developers and someone on
> the vlc team understands what I tried to explain and can
> come up with an existing function we can use to take a url
> that we enter like a user of the gui and returns the derived
> url the mediadescriptor object needs.
> >
> > Many Thanks,
> > -Tony
> >
> >
> >
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