[vlc-devel] [PATCH 0/4] Add multi-playlist support

[Pierre Ynard]

> There's a plugin API providing the same functionality.
>
> VLM is nothing but a proof of concept for multiple inputs. And that's
> the wording of its original author (not me). It was never meant to be
> usable, and indeed it hardly is.
>
> As far as I've seen people who need multiple inputs use multiple
> instances (typically in a process each), not the horrible VLM.

People had to use the VLM to set up VoD inputs. But indeed, back when I
had worked on it, I figured that it would probably be possible, simpler
and cleaner to reimplement VoD as a control module instead of using the
VLM.

-- 
Pierre Ynard
"Une âme dans un corps, c'est comme un dessin sur une feuille de papier."