[vlc-devel] [PATCH 3/2] ytdl: extract playlist non-recursively ("flat")

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Le maanantaina 21. syyskuuta 2020, 10.24.01 EEST Pierre Ynard via vlc-devel a 
écrit :
> > I agree that, where playlist items have a known fixed URL, it should
> > be used. But I am not in a position to change YoutubeDL to actually do
> > that.
> 
> Okay, I have seen that what it returns is a list of (more or less)
> opaque internal tokens, notably without any actual URL. This got from me
> a negative emotional reaction, I find this unsatisfactory and really not
> what I want.

I don't think this is generally avoidable. Repeating myself, but individual 
playlist item may not have their own webpage and webpage URL to use as 
identifier.

That said, it is a questionable design decision for the specific case of the 
YouTube site playlists whose items do have individual URLs.

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