[vlc-devel] Switch to vlc_player_t and vlc_playlist_t (QT/QML and all other intf modules)

[Thomas Guillem]

Hello,

I'm working on getting the QML branch from Pierre, the Lua branch from Romain and the misc intf branch from Victorien merged.
The result can be found here: https://github.com/tguillem/vlc/commits/qml/33

There are few important notes:

1/ The old playlist is not yet  removed. Intf modules using the old playlist can not interact at all with other intf modules.

This is the case for:
 - netsync: need to expose the output clock from the player too
 - macos: WIP by Felix
 - skins2

2/ Modules are pushed one by done, therefore this will break bisect. Indeed, if you test a commit in the middle of this branch, some modules will be using the old playlist and others using the new ones. They won't be able to interact with each others.

3/ For readability, QT commits are split, the build of QT will be disabled before the first QT commit and enabled after the last one.

4/ There are build issues with mingw64: I'm working on that before the push.

5/ There are a lot of known missing features. I will create a track ticket for each ones. They all need to be fixed before 4.0 release.

- No Video integration on Windows plateform

- No Video integration on X11 plateform (we removed the QTOpengl rendering)

- Loading issues when compiled with wayland support but not available on system

- The UI won't respond to hotkeys when the video isn't embedded or when playing music
 
- No chapter prev/next/dvd menu button

- No ticks in the seek bar to represent chapters

- No teletext buttons (only subtitles in menu)

- No advanced buttons (rec/snapshot/a-b loop/next frame), some of them are available through the contextual menu

- List of recent play is unavailable / Recent play isn't filled properly

- No bookmark support (creation, access): This need to be removed from input_thread_t and move to the new medialibrary

- Lua extensions are not listed

- No playlist export

- Current playlist is not saved/restored on exit

- No "Renderer" integration

- QML related preferences are not saved

We would like to push the branch in its current state, knowing all the previous regressions. Indeed, we are loosing a lot of time resolving various conflicts, and this doesn't help external people that want to work on the new UI.

Regards,
Thomas