[vlc-devel] [PATCH] Support disc drives probing for OS/2

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Le dimanche 11 mars 2012 05:06:39 Rafaël Carré, vous avez écrit :
> Le 2012-03-03 12:27, Rémi Denis-Courmont a écrit :
> > I'm always playing the same song, but that stuff belongs in
> > modules/services_discovery, where other interfaces and other application
> > can also access it.
> 
> That code is not only redundant but buggy:
> 
> On Windows: drives are listed multiple times.

> On Linux: I have 13 entries while I only have 2 drives, one of them with
> a media yet I can't tell which one it is from that list.

On Linux, the SD is a lot better than the overly simplistic Qt4 file pattern 
matching.

TBH, the Windows disc service discovery lists empty drives too. And it 
probably fails with disc formats that do not support file://. So it is only 
marginally better than the Qt4 implementation.

> So I want remove the code from Qt4.

Unfortunately, there are no easy way to access a SD outside the playlist 
model. That is where I got stuck, as I cannot convince JB to completeley 
remove the disc opening dialog.

> If you want to control menu presence, starting chapter, title or
> whatnot, I guess you're able to fill in a device path.

I agree and I suggested the same in a much earlier discussion. But there was 
no agreement.


The same problem affects video, screen and audio capture.

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