[vlc-devel] [PATCHv3 03/12] libvlc: add renderer module list option

[Steve Lhomme]

On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 12:43 PM, Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi at remlab.net> wrote:
> Le 2016-03-31 10:18, Steve Lhomme a écrit :
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 8:26 PM, Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi at remlab.net>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Bad idea IMHO. It will probably break VLM and stream output unexpectedly.
>>
>>
>> It seems using VLM with a renderer output (push model vs pull model)
>> doesn't make much sense.
>
>
> That's the whole point.
>
> I don't see why you need yet another output type anyway. AFAICT, either
> existing output paradigms (es_out, aout, vout and/or sout) are enough for
> your use case, or you probably shouldn't be using the input thread at all.

In the case of Chromecast (dunno about the others) it's because the
receiver is a renderer that has no control of its own. It needs to be
controlled by the API. That's what we do in VLC, since it's the UI
that controls the playback on a particular output. I don't know VLM
enough so I don't know if it's possible to launch it while playing a
file and issuing remote commands that way.

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> Rémi Denis-Courmont
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