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

[Pierre d'Herbemont]

On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 4:32 PM, Jakob Leben <jakob.leben at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

That's something wanted, yes :) Normally we could use the input_item's
type field for that. A playlist should have a "playlist" type.

Pierre.