[vlc-devel] [RFC] Moving services discovery out of the playlist

[Romain Vimont]

On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 04:03:43PM +0300, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote:
> Le sunnuntaina 10. kesäkuuta 2018, 15.38.17 EEST Romain Vimont a écrit :
> > On Fri, Jun 08, 2018 at 07:43:11PM +0300, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote:
> > > Le perjantaina 8. kesäkuuta 2018, 18.05.58 EEST Romain Vimont a écrit :
> > > 
> > > And it makes zero sense to allow users to modify or lock the SD tree. An
> > > SD
> > > maintains its tree. Nobody else can modify it, and nobody else can decide
> > > when it gets modified.
> > 
> > In my proposal, the media tree is modified both by the SD (when it
> > detects new items) and by the browsing/preparsing (from different
> > threads).
> 
> You CANNOT change the media tree of an SD.

Why CANNOT?

I think the fact that subitems are either provided directly by the SD or
by a preparsing request should be irrelevant: they're in the tree.

> If you want an ML, then it is a different problem, and it has no
> relations to existing SD and the playlist/SD binding.

I don't want a ML here, just the tree of media including preparsed
items/subtrees.