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

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Le torstaina 13. helmikuuta 2020, 13.03.37 EET Thomas Guillem a écrit :
> Now the big question, do we want to do the same with libvlc ?

Of course, we do. LibVLC should not have a worse interface, should it?

We still lack a synchronous interface, that would be better for programmatic 
(non-interactive) use cases, but that's a separate problem also affecting the 
core.

> (...) But I still want to be able to select a track by its string_id.
> Mainly to restore the player previous state from a db.

For that, you need a reproducible serial identifier. The string identifier in 
this patch is *no* such thing. It is a serial but unreproducible identifier. It 
might work for RPC use cases like HTTP and D-Bus controls, but it won't work 
for replaying the same MRL.

There are several sources of non-determinism between the MRL and the ES output 
that would need to be resolved first.

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