[vlc-devel] [PATCH 4/4] ytdl: use redirect for single media

[Pierre Ynard]

> Well you can't have it both ways:
> - Either we redirect, and there is not going to be any metadata.
> - Or we use a playlist, and we'll have the URL expiry problem (and major
>   delay in parsing larger playlists).

Can we, in an access module, first set metadata on the associated input
item, then reset the URL, and then fail with a redirect? I don't see why
that fundamentally couldn't work.

> And playing without metadata is surely no worse than failing to play
> and also to get any metadata, which is the current situation with VLC
> for most YoutubeDL-supported sites.

Let's aim a little higher with this new design than settling for the
less worse, shall we?

-- 
Pierre Ynard
"Une âme dans un corps, c'est comme un dessin sur une feuille de papier."