[vlc-devel] Issue with libVLC and pulse

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Le mardi 25 mai 2010 15:23:43 Rémi Denis-Courmont, vous avez écrit :
> > Well, the issue with phonon-VLC is that we have no idea what the final
> > application name will be.
> 
> There is only one way: let the application set the name (through
> libvlc_set_user_agent() or whatever). Of course, if phono does not provide
> the infos, you are screwed. But then it really is a Phonon design bug, in
> addition to the libvlc design bug, and vlc-devel is about libvlc not
> Phonon.

I've just added a new --user-agent option to support this. The Phonon front-
end (Yes, from my perspective, it is a *front*-end!) just needs to pass "--
user-agent=\"APP_NAME\"" to libvlc_new(). This looks kinda ugly - I really 
don't like the argc/argv stuff in libvlc_new(). But it works better and is 
easier to implement than a dedicated function.

Then the PA output plugin would have to call var_InheritString() and pass the 
result to the appropriate libpulse function; I hope it expects UTF-8...

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