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

Jean-Baptiste Kempf jb at videolan.org
Tue Sep 15 23:07:15 CEST 2020


On Tue, 15 Sep 2020, at 23:02, RĂ©mi Denis-Courmont wrote:
> But second and more importantly, you can already do any and all of those 
> multiple instnaces with the existing API. You can spawn multiple LibVLC 
> instances, or multiple playlists in an instance or multiple player in an 
> instance, both via LibVLC APIs or with the existing core/plugin APIs.

But people don't do that. People use the VLC product and run VLC product, because they download vlc.exe/dmg.
And VLC UIs don't use libVLC, they use the core, and therefore one cannot "spawn multiple libVLC".

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