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

[Jakob Leben]

On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 11:08 AM, Jean-Philippe André <jpeg at videolan.org>wrote:

>
> > 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.
>
>
Exactly! That is what I meant, plus I think many other ql new features could
be done based on such a "recognition" of items.
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