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

[Jean-Philippe André]

Hi,

On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 2:51 PM, Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi at remlab.net> wrote:
>
> 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.

Well, skins2 is old stuff.
But, we used to be able to "open skins files with VLC". I guess
Windows users want to be able to install their skins (or at least
start VLC) by a simple click on a .VLT file.

I was just trying to restore some previous behavior.

Best,

-- 
Jean-Philippe André