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

[Filip Roséen]

Hi Remi,

On 2018-09-26 21:22, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote:

> Le keskiviikkona 26. syyskuuta 2018, 21.12.44 EEST Filip Roséen a écrit :
> > If one would like to preparse all items, but skip those that take too
> > long (for reasons such as being read over a "slow" network
> > connection), the timeout would help with making such decision. It
> > would then continue to populate the playlist with entities that at
> > least finished their job within a "reasonable"* amount of time.
> > 
> > * whatever timeout value would be *reasonable* in this case.
> 
> Again, Reasonable is no more than ZERO.
> ALL items in the hierarchy should be inserted retaining the playlist lock.
> 
> Otherwise shuffle and what-not does not work properly. That or the playlist 
> code must be significantly reworked. That might actually be the way to go in 
> 4.0, but that seems impractical in 3.0.

Ok, noted and appreciated.

> 
> > > That is how things worked until 2.2.x inclusive.
> > 
> > Didn't `2.2.x` suffer from the equivalent delay in preparsing (not
> > "showing up directly") if it started to dive into something which
> > looked local, but was actually remote (like a mounted network share)?
> 
> And again, in 2.2, expand meant expand in-line/immediately. Now expand means 
> collapse until the preparser expands.

All the best,\
F
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