[vlc-devel] [PATCH 0/5] input/url factor and moar tests

[Thomas Guillem]

On Thu, Nov 5, 2015, at 13:11, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote:
> Le 2015-11-05 14:09, Thomas Guillem a écrit :
> > The first 3 patches add vlc_uri2fd and input_stat2type that are used 
> > by
> > file/directory accesses and also by input_item in order to detect the
> > item type via an URI.
> 
> That looks totally overkill.
> 
> The input item type was meant for UIs to pick different icons. Not 
> more, not less.

Now, it is also used by the preparser. It's important to pre identify
the type of item in order to don't preparse networks streams.

> 
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> Rémi Denis-Courmont
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