[vlc-devel] [PATCH] dvdnav: add Demux submodule

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Le mardi 17 mars 2015, 22:57:20 Luca Barbato a écrit :
> On 12/03/15 13:52, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote:
> > Le 2015-03-12 13:14, Thomas Guillem a écrit :
> >> It allows to use dvdnav via a VLC access.
> > 
> > And it locks up if the stream returns no data (something that cannot
> > happen with regular files).
> 
> Uhm sounds bad if you use nfs or anything similar, if the streams return
> an error it is not handled?

I mean it locks up if the stream read does not return (in any reasonable time 
frame), in other words if you have a (long) blocking read. That situation is 
not possible for a regular file. Regular file I/O is never blocking: it either 
completes or fails straight away.

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