[vlc-devel] [RFC PATCH 8/9] RFC: es_out: fix group_id and i_id collision

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Le keskiviikkona 12. helmikuuta 2020, 20.39.02 EET Thomas Guillem a écrit :
> > IMO the ES track should be referenced too, to prevent identifier aliasing
> > within a single input source with dynamic ES. i_id seems a lost cause with
> > or without the context pointer.
> 
> I think we can trust a single output source to give us unique ids.

And I'm 100% sure that you can't trust that. If the source gives fixed IDs, 
nothing prevents it reusing them temporally, and it in fact will most likely 
happens with TS.

You simply can't base your design on such a broken assumption.

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