[vlc-devel] [RFC PATCH] modules: add plugins-blacklist option

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

On Wednesday 21 October 2015 19:10:47 Thomas Guillem wrote:
> ---
>  src/libvlc-module.c |  5 ++++
>  src/modules/bank.c  | 71
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------- 2 files changed, 56
> insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/src/libvlc-module.c b/src/libvlc-module.c
> index a13093d..a959f22 100644
> --- a/src/libvlc-module.c
> +++ b/src/libvlc-module.c
> @@ -1026,6 +1026,9 @@ static const char *const ppsz_prefres[] = {
>  #define PLUGINS_CACHE_LONGTEXT N_( \
>      "Use a plugins cache which will greatly improve the startup time of
> VLC.")
> 
> +#define PLUGINS_BLACKLIST_TEXT N_("Blacklist plugins")
> +#define PLUGINS_BLACKLIST_LONGTEXT N_("List of blacklisted plugins (won't
> be loaded)") +
>  #define STATS_TEXT N_("Locally collect statistics")
>  #define STATS_LONGTEXT N_( \
>       "Collect miscellaneous local statistics about the playing media.")
> @@ -1950,6 +1953,8 @@ vlc_module_begin ()
>                PLUGINS_CACHE_LONGTEXT, true )
>      add_obsolete_string( "plugin-path" ) /* since 2.0.0 */
>      add_obsolete_string( "data-path" ) /* since 2.1.0 */
> +    add_string( "plugins-blacklist", NULL, PLUGINS_BLACKLIST_TEXT,
> +                PLUGINS_BLACKLIST_LONGTEXT, true );

Plugins are (currently) per-process. A  configuration option is per-instance. 
This is fine with VLC because it only ever has a single instance per process.

This won´t work properly with LibVLC though.

-- 
Rémi Denis-Courmont
http://www.remlab.net/