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

[Romain Vimont]

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 :
> > Hi,
> > 
> > We would like to move services discovery out of the playlist, I explain
> > why and detail a proposal in this RFC:
> > <https://github.com/rom1v/vlc/blob/sd/rfc.md>
> 
> This fails to explain why you need a new input item node type. There is 
> already such a thing, independent of the playlist.

One reason is that an input_item_node_t does not keep a reference to its
parent.

Otherwise, media_tree_t could in practice use input_item_node_t for
nodes. (I am not sure I would prefer, though.)