[vlc-devel] [PATCH] lib: allow disabling automatic advancement

Edward Wang edward.c.wang at compdigitec.com
Mon Jul 8 14:27:35 CEST 2013


On Sun, Jul 7, 2013 at 4:00 PM, Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi at remlab.net> wrote:
> Le dimanche 7 juillet 2013 22:45:14, Edward Wang a écrit :
>> I disagree. We need the media list player to be able to deal with
>> playlists. The regular media player cannot handle playlists.
>
> Sure it can.

>From https://www.videolan.org/developers/vlc/doc/doxygen/html/group__libvlc__media__list__player.html

"LibVLC media player can only play a single media, and does not handle
playlist files properly"

>
>> Also Pierre is no longer around so that is irrelevant.
>
> Just because he is not involved does not mean his design decision are
> irrelevant. AFAIU, the only reason for adding the list player over the player
> was automatic transition.
>
I think that playlist support was a greater aim for the media list
player, at least from what I can see, no?

> And your patch breaks exactly that.

I don't see how my patch breaks anything by default? This patch is
very useful if I want some kind of control in my libvlc app where I
want to have something before having libvlc_media_list_player_next
jump automatically, without removing playlist support.

Regards,
    Edward Wang



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