[vlc-devel] What should we do about recursive preparsing?

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Le keskiviikkona 26. syyskuuta 2018, 20.39.19 EEST Filip Roséen a écrit :
> Given that we have a preparser timeout, do you think it is a good idea
> to rely on said timeout, which would in turn prevent recursing to deep
> on `--recursive=expand` if the underlying access is too slow?

That's missing the point.

The playlist needs the entire tree to show up at once so that shuffling, 
sorting, etc, oeprate properly. That is how things worked until 2.2.x 
inclusive.

Playing with the timeout value is not going to solve much if anything.

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