[vlc-devel] [PATCH 1/2] libvlc: add libvlc_media_player_dump

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Le 2016-05-20 09:19, Thomas Guillem a écrit :
> Pointless, no, this is a very asked feature. Users of VLC ports want 
> to
> download their media files to their devices from their media shares.

This is out of scope of LibVLC, which is a media player 
framework/library.

> Racy, ah yes maybe.
>
> Impractical, yes since it's weird to dump a file from a Media Player.

It's broken and behaving wrongly or weirdly in too many ways to be 
usable for this purpose.

There are plenty of existing and (much) better suited libraries for 
file and file system abstractions to choose from.

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