[vlc-devel] [PATCH] AVI: add an automatic decision choice for AVI index

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 09:43:19AM +0100, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote :
> On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 09:04:57 +0100, Jean-Baptiste Kempf <jb at videolan.org>
> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 10:04:27AM +0200, Juha Jeronen wrote :
> >> On 01/10/2012 09:32 PM, Jean-Baptiste Kempf wrote:
> >> > On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 08:26:31PM +0100, Laurent Aimar wrote :
> >> >>> Any problem if it replaces the 'always fix' option?
> >> >> Well, some AVI have broken index and it's nice (even if advanced)
> >> >> to have a way to rebuild it.
> >> > I would call that "Force fix", to be honest, to avoid the confusion.
> >> 
> >> Well, at least I'm already confused :)
> >> 
> >> What's the difference between "Always fix" and the suggested new
> >> "Automatically fix"?
> >> 
> > 
> > Always fix always rebuilds the AVI index.
> > "Automatically fix", my proposal, is to rebuild the AVI index, every
> > time it is necessary, but without asking. Because, those days,
> > rebuilding the index is faster than asking the user to...
> 
> Isn't that a case for removing the "ask" choice?

That's my opinion for the long term, indeed.
But so far, I don't know how well automatically behaves for important
sized avi over http or avi-getting-downloaded-by-p2p-programs...

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