[vlc-devel] [PATCH 6/9] preparser: add playlist_preparser_Cancel

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Le 2016-06-02 10:33, Thomas Guillem a écrit :
>> It´s also quite a lot of state to retain and complexity on both side 
>> for,
>> AFAIK, little gain.
>
> The gain is huge, especially for libvlc. If you parse a network file
> that is stuck in network I/O, the parser will never receive any
> stop/interrupt, so you won't be able to parse any more files (local 
> or
> network) from it.

Of couse. I'm pretty sure I said that preparsing network resources was 
a terrible idea.

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