[vlc-devel] [PATCH] HLS: Check for Segment in all hls streams.

[Frederic YHUEL]

On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 10:54 AM, satish MR <satishmr123 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
> This Patch tries to modify GetSegment() in httplive.
>
> If Playback thread does not find a segment, it has to check the segments
> available in other bitrate hls streams.
>
> current behaveour is: GetSegment() function will check for available
> segment; if it does not find it then it just returns without checking in
> other streams.
>
> This patch makes GetSegment function to check available segment in all hls
> streams.
>

Hello,

I don't think this patch is correct.

hls_Get() and segment_GetSegment() should not return NULL, and if they
do, there is a serious problem somewhere.

Does your patch solve an actual bug? I would be surprised.


Best regards
Frédéric