[vlc-devel] [PATCH v4 1/3] Introduce media source and media tree API

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Le tiistaina 10. heinäkuuta 2018, 18.36.43 EEST Romain Vimont a écrit :
> On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 06:18:31PM +0300, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote:
> > Le tiistaina 10. heinäkuuta 2018, 12.24.44 EEST Romain Vimont a écrit :
> > > > If you don't instantiate a module, you don't need an object. It would
> > > > probably be simpler to just make this a "normal" opaque structure.
> > > 
> > > vlc_media_source_provider_t creates media sources, which in the end
> > > calls vlc_sd_Create(), which requires an object (it instantiates a
> > > module).
> > 
> > Yes but no. vlc_sd_Create() already creates the (SD) object with which to
> > instantiate the SD plugin.
> > 
> > The media source per se does not instantiate any module: it does not call
> > vlc_module_load() or any of its wrappers. And it does not also not
> > implement any legacy programming interface based on VLC object variables
> > either.
> > 
> > With neither of those two artifacts, it does not really require a VLC
> > object.
> OK, so you are suggesting to make libvlc a direct parent of all SD
> objects?

If you want to maintain "backward compatibility" with the tree layout, they 
need to be parented to the same input manager as the GUIs.

But otherwise, you can indeed parent them to LibVLC.

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