[vlc-devel] [RFC] Automatic insertion of stream filters

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

	Hello,

Historically, vlc_stream_NewURL() (under a different name) has not 
automatically inserted any stream filters. It was merely a convenience wrapper 
for access_New().

Nowadays, there are however a number of automatically probed stream filters 
(ADF, inflate, decomp), and they appear to be desirable (e.g. Lua, add-ons) or 
at least harmless in most cases. Furthermore, there is also another API that 
can be used when stream filters are explicitly not wanted: vlc_access_NewMRL()

I have been reluctant to change the semantics (see #17132) for obvious 
backward-compatibility and regression concerns. Nevertheless, I do not know 
any specific case where the change would be actively harmful.

Does anybody know of one? If not, we should consider probing filters 
automatically in vlc_stream_NewURL().

-- 
雷米‧德尼-库尔蒙
https://www.remlab.net/
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