[vlc-devel] [vlc-commits] commit: Skins: "file" shortcut for skins access_demux (& decode URI) ( Jean-Philippe André )

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

On Mon, 31 May 2010 08:49:23 +0200, Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi at remlab.net>
wrote:
> Please revert this. This is a huge hack and we have been trying to cut on
> the number of plugins hijacking file://. What you open MUST be a media
> file. Otherwise, the security model is broken. Mind you that's why VLC
> cannot open say LUA files nor shebang shell scripts, even though it would
> be trivial to implement.

In fact skins should not be an access_demux at all. That's a braindead
idea.

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