[vlc-devel] [PATCH] move rate-variable to playlist

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 11:06:14 +0200, David Glaude <david.glaude at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Considering iPhone streaming (aka QuickTime X) where a playlist is in use
> with "10 seconds chunk" it seems better that the rate does not reset
every
> 10 seconds.
> 
> Of course iPhone streaming is not supported yet in VLC and the vout is
> destroyed and recreated at each item of the playlist... but in the futur
I
> guess that VLC will be able to play the "Apple play-list"... and next to
> play silverlight kind of chunked progressive download.

If/when VLC can receive Apple HTTP streams, I expect a dedicated demux will
parse the overloaded M3U8 file, and pass the TS stream to a chained
(stream_Demux*) instance of the TS plugin. So the whole stream will look
like a single item to VLC. Otherwise seeking and continuous streams would
not work.

So that's irrelevant to the life span of 'rate' value.

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