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

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Le vendredi 21 août 2020, 15:41:21 EEST Pierre Ynard via vlc-devel a écrit :
> > 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.

That was the lame excuse for adding a terrible API around VLM to LibVLC in 
spite of objections that it indeed already then was a known terrible API.

VLC 4.0 has no VoD inputs, so that's moot.

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Rémi Denis-Courmont