[vlc-devel] [C] itml: new playlist design (Jakob Leben)

[Jean-Philippe André]

On Tuesday 02 February 2010 09:34:55 Jakob Leben wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 9:17 AM, Jakob Leben <jakob.leben at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Let the input_item API simple, this add crappy playlist
> > complexity back in the input_item. :/
> 
> Well, if you ask me, I think the playlist mentality is already too much
> embedded in playlist (and sort) demuxing; but it is not the tree structure,
> that is bad here. For the situation to be really useful and more productive
> at the moment, what we would need is to differentiate between normal input
> items that one can actually play and container items and then to be able to
> ask the container items: "give me your subitems" without needing to "play"
> them like we do with others.

As a side note, being able to differentiate container items and playable items 
would be really great, especially for LuaSD. The same applies to shoutcast-
like SDs and every playlist items: we shouldn't need to stop playback when we 
navigate through the elements.

Rgds,

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Jean-Philippe André