[vlc-devel] [RFC] -- playlist and input small improvements (vlc core)

[brezhoneg1]

Hello,

GUI interfaces usually need to add callbacks on variables owned by the
input thread object. For that purpose, they detect new inputs via the
'item-current' variable, then retrieve a reference on the new input
object and call var_AddCallback. These calls are done while the input
thread is already running, which is not the best thing since variables
may already have been updated and changes can be missed at the GUI
level. (Or more complexity in code is needed to deal with these corner
cases)

Actually, if either a new variable or 'item-current' was updated between
input_Create and input_Start, that would give GUI interfaces a chance to
add callbacks in a synchronous way _after_ variables have been created
and _before_ the input thread has started updating them.

In the same vein, two input variables (bit-rate and sample-rate) should
be moved from the init phase of input_Start() and placed into
input_Create() to prevent var_Addcallbacks from failing if called too
early.

For better clarity, two small patches are attached.

Comments welcome.

Rgds
Erwan10 
 
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